
Big picture – 2011 March
Doug Jones, Men at work.
Doug Jones, Men at work.
Speaking at the Culture Change conference in January, Arts Minister Ed Vaizey called on arts organisations to embrace new technology as a resource to engage and develop audiences.
Venice: Giardini and Arsenale, Venice
1 June – 22 November 2009
Rhubarb and Custard Photographic Gallery, Eaton
1 – 28 February 2011
The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford
14 February – 4 March 2011
I went to Taiwan yesterday in order to get a stamp in my passport. Thankfully this administratively inspired journey was neither lengthy nor costly as there is a fast ferry to an island that is administered by Taiwan but which […]
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Read a review of my radio prog ‘sounds of the seaside’ here http://thedomesticsoundscape.com/wordpress/?p=2000 This radio program is one of the bases to me new project where i’m investigating Dartmoor. One outcome will be another hr long radio show featuring childrens […]
I have recently attended a session organised by Emerge http://www.emergelondon.org.uk/events/item/28 – Educating the Educators: Engaging with Gallery Education. The session was run by Emma Hart and Leanne Turvey who were joined by Jane Sillis from engage. The session predominantly focused […]
Yesterday was my second residency day at Wakefield Studios. I met several more of Wakefield’s studio holders, including Paula Tod http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=4862 hose studio I was able to spend some time in and photograph. Spent the first hour or so yesterday […]
It was the second anniversary of mum’s death yesterday and I still feel like I could pop round for a cup of Yorkshire tea and a bakewell tart. Even though I read the words on her grave stone and took […]
It’s still applications agogo at the moment but yesterday I had a really useful peer to peer session with an established artist from WARP the Wales Artist Resource Programme. Picked up some great tips on approaching curators and raising my […]
The lasts are laughing at me. My son wants them out of the house – ‘like dead men’s feet’ he said. I have been given the lasts ( along with a number of other artists) from the curator of ‘Made […]
Council contact on sick, council contact now on fortnight’s holiday, meanwhile the proposal and budget is slowly advancing amongst a pile of other work – that fuse is fizzling…
Not a good day at the pasting table. Its all looking too tight, forced, its not doing what I want it to do, Feeling moderate to high levels of frustration and rage. I need help. What would Henry do? I […]
Something I have been meaning to rant about for a while is the prescribed individuality that is integral to the creation of our digital identities on social media platforms. Facebook, Youtube, but also to a lesser extent art sites Artslant, […]
Supermarket Day 2 Day 2 did not start well. After such a successful day installing Play I was expecting a similar enjoyable and productive day. Almost as soon as I arrived Pontus (one of the Supermarket organisers) told me that […]