GLIMPSES STOP-START BRIEFLY * I have begun reading The Garden in the Machine by Scott MacDonald, which explores representations of nature and landscape (often gardens specifically) in American avant-garde film. Many of the individual studies (of Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line, […]
I’ve had a really intersting week… Stuff & Nonsense was a brilliant show and some of the things people were showing were amazing!!! no photos yet (damn camera batteries) but i’ll post some next week!!! The staff show it was […]
Rob and Jane, thank you, why use a small knot when a big one will suffice? When painting goes well for me it seems to settle into a rhythm that simply needs following; when it goes badly it a disproportionate […]
New Yoik blog. I am back. It was incredibly snowy – they’ve had something like 50 inches this month. I really had the most amazing time and met some great people. Tha reason I was invited was to take part […]
No art today, bought paint tho just cos it was 10p a tin. Mainly shades of white I think I was going to make a pciture for my wall. Nothing to do with paper or any of my MA work; […]
The local visual arts organisation, firstsite – soon to have an amazing new space which they are careful not to call a ‘gallery’ (!) – has set up a Collectors’ Group, who came to visit me a few days ago. I […]
Seamus Staunton, 'Low Tide'.
A&E Gallery, Brighton8 – 23 January 2011
Giuliana Lazzerini, 'Wings', Acrylic, 2010. Photo: Gordon Giarchi. Courtesy: Giuliana Lazzerini. Acrylic painting. Image size: 19 x18cm. £225.
Giuliana Lazzerini, 'Ligurian Coastline', Oil, 2010. Photo: Gordon Giarchi. Courtesy: Giuliana Lazzerini. Original Oil painting. Image size: 30 x 30cm.
To residency or not to – that was the question: When first approached by Pangolin for this opportunity I was both excited and disappointed, and frankly quite confused. On the one hand it seems perfect timing: following on from a […]
I’m back in Xiamen and found my laptop sitting there by the door in its bag, just where I left it when exiting in haste. Having neither the laptop nor my camera was in some ways good as I had […]
From half of my life in war-torn Belfast to the terraced streets of Manchester to the vast expanses of the East Kent countryside, I have finally ended up in what on the surface appears to be the set for the […]
I went to studio 22 realising more and more the benefits of having a large-ish white wall to work with – something I don’t have in my studio at home. If my studio here was twice the size, and all […]
CHLOE OSTMO It seems that I just can’t stop. After working so hard for assessments I thought I’d take some time off, but I’ve got ideas in my head that I want to get down and work on (we do […]
JOHN STEZAKER I dont know how I havn’t seen this man’s work before, I have been extensively going to galleries for 1o or so years. I think his work is so clever and poignant to now. Masks and Pairs are […]
KATERINA FRITSCH I remember her for her sculptures of repeated objects in bright colours. I have revisited this artist and found some of her new work to be brilliant. She has made the most amazing photos where it looks like […]
Tick tick tick tixk tixk tixk tixk, time rolls on. just writing today and cleaning. Spoke to Benedict Phillips in the afternoon. He told me that I was the artist and that I should tell myself that.
Here is one that can filed under ‘Customer’. Yesterday I had a language exchange and we were looking for a new place to hold it in. We went to a tea shop. Xiamen has a profusion of these, many of […]
In December 2010, 5 months pregnant, I was offered and accepted a one year residency at Pangolin London in Kings Cross starting almost immediatedly. This blog will chart my attempt to ‘have it all’: a year of focused studio time […]
Here’s a curious thing: on Twitter, has anyone else noticed how many of a certain ‘tier’ of arts professionals follow no, or almost no, artists?