Richard Taylor catches up with artist Rebecca Strain as she uses her isolation from developed networks to confront a writing practice that complements the enduring nature of her visual production.
Corn Exchange, Newbury
11 January – 24 February 2011
Hayward Gallery, South Bank
16 February – 17 April 2011
Helen Ingram’s work is two dimensional using a variety of mediums ranging from traditional and digitial. These materials are used as they demonstrate the changing hisotry of process that is seen in fashion from drawing to the present day photography. […]
Why do I feel a pressure to define what I do? Is it always a good thing for us to try and understand what we’ve produced? When you get to a certain ‘level’ you have curators and critics who can […]
Last week was part one of our interim show, Futura Bold, at the Nunnery. I stayed away from the space during the week as I had to finish my work for the following week, and also as I had spent […]
On Saturday, I went to Manchester to meet with Jack and Pippa from AIRActivists for the UnCut Conference. It was very inspiring – there is audio and images here: http://madlab.org.uk/content/the-uncut-society-an-… I was very inspired by the Lars Fiske graphic novel […]
The piece I have constructed most recently conforms to the second approach of focussing on the object and what it means to me; the significance of the collection and what it represents conceptually. The installation, which at the moment is […]
Although the shadows accentuate the detail of each key and bring the viewer into the space, I came to notice that the installation worked just as well in daylight with the bulb turned off. I spent a long while on […]
Sporting League: Game 9 ‘We have belief, confidence, we’re committed…’ so said the Novia boss after a confident performance against Zindustrious running out 3-1 winners at the end of the ninety minutes…Tranquilayers seemed to end the Red Star title campaign […]
And hello sunshine! I feel as though I have woken from hibernation… And in a sense, I have. I haven’t done much during the dark winter months, and last week, woke up and had a studio photographic session of my […]
‘The body is gendered…The body can thus be seen not as a blank, passive page, a neutral ground of meaning, but as an active, productive ‘whiteness’…The woman artist thus transgresses both what it is to be an artist and what […]
