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?
Some concluding thoughts on the 2010 residency from Helen Scalway: I was astonished by the very well attended closing event. The drawings were inspired by sounds past and present hovering together in the church and Jane Ponsford, the imaginative co-ordinator […]
In some of my work – past and present i have to make a lot of compromises and use my imagination to create a coherent and relevant work that aims to not only satisfy my own view but also a […]
It’s awhile since I wrote anything, Dissertation work and family life took over my art, but I am not working next week. So art art here I come….
I’m writing this purely to avoid doing my tax return. Yesterday I met with Anthony the orchestra conductor and we chose a tailcoat for next Friday at the Tate. The man in the shop unspokenly seemed to think it was […]
Dissertation handed in today! (What is the Ideology of MINUS SPACE and Contemporary Reductive Painting?)
So today I discovered ‘Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey’. I watched the 2hr intro and I’m hooked. Even better instead for forking out the cash for the book and struggling to read it I can actually down load mp3, […]
Savage, I’m a Fraud, 2010.
While the arts continue to face what Jack Hutchinson describes as “ideological attack from all fronts”, the virtual revolution is giving artists, curators, commissioners and commentators the opportunity to expand their work in new, effective and economical ways.
In the article ‘State of Practice’ in last month’s issue Rich White called for new classifications and a new labelling system for creative works. White discussed the reality of the artist and the necessity of creating new perceptions of artists, […]
Let me start by posing the question: Have you ever seen the film The Rebel starring Tony Hancock?
Re the ‘Beware of the scam’ article on Jobs and opps warning artists of a recent email scam where they are approached by someone who wants to fraudulently buy their work.
Millions of people take an interest in the Turner Prize each year who might otherwise only have a passing interest in Fine Art.
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
28 October – 19 December
Various Locations, Bristol
2 – 5 December
David Roberts Art Foundation, London
13 October – 18 December
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester (in partnership with The City Gallery)
2 October – 19 December
