Continuing to develop my work, take steps to come out from under my rock, connect with other artists and get my work seen…..in any bit of time I can snatch. I am starting this new blog to help keep me […]
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Walsall
21 January – 20 March 2011
Wilkinson, London
13 January – 6 March 2011
Sonya Dyer reports from the second event of the series, which confronted the difficulties faced by artists from outside the EU coming to work in Britain. Artists Sinead O’Donnell (UK) and Poshya Kakl (Iraq) used Skype to perform an action with the Cardiff audience, bridging the gap between ‘here’ and ‘there’ – the liminal space.
It’s a familiar feeling to anyone who has found themselves trapped in an endless cycle internet browsing- somewhere, out there, is the article, text or information that’s going to make sense of it all and make something click, as it […]
Tonight’s the Tate Britain! Things are mainly calm, thanks to very many to-do lists with actual tick boxes I’ve drawn on myself. Anthony the conductor (Anthony-the-conductor) and I are arriving much too early on purpose so nothing can take us […]
How to write? Just received my February a-n Magazine and I see that on p.16 an extract from my New Year’s Resolutions (Blog 15) has been quoted: ‘See more shows and write more reviews. Thinking about what we have seen, […]
Making a Living are currently contributing to the Longhouse blog and discussing issues around art education, professional development and that old favourite – getting paid. http://www.longhouse.uk.com/blog/category/blog/mak… They also have a survey, which personally I find a little tricky when it’s […]
Speaking of surveys, here’s another for AIR members of a-n, looking at the future of art education. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CB7XS8D The more answers, the stronger the results that come out of it. If you need a little more persuading to speak out […]
Early 2010 I became involved in an ongoing, self-evolving project with a group of artists based around the Solihull region. We have been working together to identify our development needs as artists and to find a way of working collectively […]
As part of L/B/P we have initiated a series of creative research/intervention days to help inform our vision of the project. What follows is an account of our first get together: I have spent a refreshing day drinking coffee, eating […]
The second of our experimental intervention days took place at the old Bee’s rugby ground in Solihull. Nominated for dissection by Eva Bennett, the grounds were an abandoned mix of public and private land, slowly being wrestled by developers, and […]
Daunting this neg 2 research project business. I am like an old goat waiting to be kicked off the starting block! D-scape – Aphex Twin will explain my state of mind of late. I have been recording myself in videos, […]
Just before Christmas, myself and the Live/Brief/Project artists spent a day at the Kingshurst Arts Space – an old shop unit recently acquired by the Solihull arts team as a space to develop creative activity and engagement. Most of the […]
The new year celebrations have got going in earnest. For the first evening a big group of us from CEAC were fortunate to be invited to a family dinner which made an odd but convivial grouping of Western artists and […]
I laughed out loud when I saw that Lord Wei (Big Society Tsar) is cutting his voluntary role from 3 days per week to 2 days. The guardian say Wei has told friends he is cutting his hours to allow […]
Good news! I have takers for the next 4 sessions of Children’s Book Illustration classes. We will be concentrating on thumbnails and making dummy books.
I have just this moment received a book in the post from the LRB. It is a gift from my partners father and his wife. It couldn’t have come at a better time. The book is ‘Atlas of Remote Islands: […]
It’s been a fair while since I posted on Degrees Unedited, when I left Wirral Met I also moved my blogging into Artists Talking. I know that I read the student blogs still quite regularly, like seeing how everyone is […]
