Emily Allchurch I went to the Artist Talk by Emily Allchurch and Laura Noble at the Daiwa anglo-japanese Foundation 17 th feb. Emily Allchurch makes digital photographic paintings using hundreds of photographs to recreate masterpieces for modern times. The talk […]
Martin Arnold In our lecture today by Franis Summers, which by the way was really interesting but so full of new ideas to me that it made my head spin. He showed us martin Arnold’s ‘piece touchee’. I loved it, […]
In this few weeks since my last blog I’ve not done any actual practical work but have made leaps and bounds in reference to my overall practice. I’ve applied for a studio, turned down the residency in Sheffield, been to […]
I’ve been to two great talks this week (and another later today by Eva Berendes at S1). The talks I’ve been this week by Sarah Woodfine at the Graves gallery, and Sonya Dyer at Site Gallery. Both very different artists: […]
Don’t eat stuff off the studio floor! I must get the studio tidied up. In my efforts to maximise my studio time I have a lady that comes in every other week to do some cleaning for me. 2hrs of […]
Well having been again very busy this week and in bed with a nasty 24-hour stomach bug I got into the studio this morning and made myself stay in there for 2 hours. My life has been so bitty lately […]
I’ve been reading The Linguistics of British Sign Language.* It turns out BSL makes frequent use of proforms: elements that refer to terms previously defined in a given discourse context. Pronouns, which refer specifically to previously defined nouns, are a […]
A few hours in the workshops yesterday morning and I produced key components for a work which has been waiting to appear outside of my imagination and a few sketches for almost a year and a half. This gestation period […]
Less than 3 weeks to go now until we head off to Tromso……… Last weekend went well at the Threshold festival at CUC. Loads of people can in to see the artwork and listen to the bands. It was a […]
Have been looking again at the photographs from Westgate studios. One image keeps pushing its self forward; of a tap in a currently unoccupied studio on the top floor. Taps are ubiquitous… and are a conduit for something we can’t […]
the website is done!!! well at least until a new piece of work demands its updating… so www.ryan-hughes.co.uk been busy on a few other things as well, started on a series of what might become works which i’m thinking of […]
My next show is Time is Love.4 [show 2] International Video Art Exhibitioncurated by Kisito AssangniSaturday February 26, 2011HEXAGON SPACE1825 North Charles StreetBaltimore, MD 21201USA I’m not sure I was in show one but I’m definitely in show two. I’ve […]
Le Chéile in Wales – some installation shots of our exhibition in Llyfrgell Bae Colwyn/Colwyn Bay Library. The work on show has been selected from the core touring exhibition by Sian Hughes, Conwy County Arts Officer. The exhibition runs intil […]
The theme of my evening class at the LUX this week was landscape. In her introduction Lucy reminded us that the notion of ‘landscape’ only really emerged with industrialisation – at the moment when people first felt themselves divorced/separate from […]
18th Feb, 2011. Well it’s been a while since I last blogged! I have been busy this last month. I have been sketching like mad for my core module. I am continuing the theme on the masks. I have done […]
It has recently been drawn to our attention that we’re supposed to have an ‘online presence’ as part of our module outcomes. I know that blogs count towards this, but since I’ve always planned to have my own website anyway, […]
Lisa Slominski, 'A study for 'Pookie'', 2011.
Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
12 January – 27 February 2011
Daniel Iles, 'Untitled', watercolour on handmade cotton rag paper from Richard de Bas, Ambert, France, 2010.