One thing has been bothering me about this blog was the adjustment needed when using a different weblog. (I have been using a WordPress now for over 3 years and wasn’t really aware of how comfortable it had become until […]
HMS is going to Gotland in August. This will be the second leg of an exchange with artist led space, Gocart Gallery in Visby www.gocartgallery.se. Gocart will be coming to Long Eaton in June. Accomodation in Visby is fully booked […]
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 […]
Athletico moved to the top of the league with a 2-1 win over a tricky Zindustrious…Champions Novia were too strong for Bombaya with a 2-0 win. Bombaya boss…’ I’ve had enough of those pre-madonnas at Novia. I think some of […]
Waiting for the little green line to get to the other end without crashing the system has been my main concern today. Sat in the gallery surrounded by 70’s pop art by Neville Cooper I spent 8 hours putting together […]
AN OPEN LETTER TO EAST SUSSEX ARTISTS Yesterday I sent out a message to the 200+ artists on our mailing list telling them about our new plans. Already people are responding, telling me how excited they are about the new […]
AIR Council member Ellen Bell reports from this lively DACS-initiated debate.
Blue Monkey Network is an artists’ organisation run by artists for artists. Organiser Judith Alder, runs the Network in partnership with Eastbourne’s Towner gallery, who invited Blue Monkey to establish the Network in 2011. Since then the group has held […]
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
27 November – 29 January
Tenderpixel, London
13 January – 3 February
Alma Enterprises, London
19 November – 16 January
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
5 November – 5 February
The majority of RFOs across art form have an annual income of less than
A new addition to Manchester’s artist-led activity, The Art Corner gallery’s curatorial team comprises emerging artists and art students.
In advance of 2012’s arts cuts, some important production organisations supporting visual arts’ practice will shortly close.