Page 1955 – a-n The Artists Information Company

The whole south of China has been experiencing a cold snap for at least the past week. There were reports on the news about how it has even made keeping some schools open very difficult. I have found myself eyeing […]

Susan’s comment is spot on. Thinking about this afterwards, there are a few other prerequisites I could have added: resourcefulness, adaptability, and a sense of the possible.

Forth Valley Open Studios Last Saturday we held our first agm in the Smith museum and gallery in Stirling and we had a good response from the public. A year ago Forth Valley Open Studios was just a bright idea […]

Neg1 Part 1 Here’s a quick look at what the other guys have been up to for Negotiated Study 1, no details, just an overview to give a flavour. Pressure has been telling and for some the work/life juggle has […]

Neg1 part2 Here are some more views of what the other guys have been up to for the Neg1 assessments.

Back to uni today- assessment presentations. But not for me I was observing and then doing my utmost to get some money for food. First off was a year 2 part time student (me this time next year) researching skin. […]

I can’t think of any other profession that requires quite such a wide range of abilities and skills: an artist needs more than just their talent: we need to be adept at marketing, financial management, and at least some ability […]

Finally I have taken the plunge to ‘go frameless’ and it seems to work well in my current show, ‘The Vivid Gaze’. The exhibition is actually in a bistro, not a gallery; I’ve never shown work in this type of […]

I’ll start with corrections. Apparently there is a jogging scene here, it just takes place at different hours. I have a luxury morning schedule and can go running at 9AM when most people are working, that is why I never […]

Flights to Tromso are now booked – yeah! Took a lot of searching and got an awful lot of advice to find the cheapest… but found something in the end – even though it involves a bit of a trek […]

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The screen print I’m working on has taken me into a new avenue within my work. The print (which can be seen in my previous entry) is a net shape of a pyramid or prism, which If cut out and […]

Still excited! :-D Got a commission to make 8 Glass trophies for a company called The Institute of Directors. So hopefully will get a little money from that, they want them by March. Super-fast making will have to be done. […]

Cleared out the storage room but didn’t like it in the end. Art’s hard!

been postering for 3,4 & 1 spoken @ intervals: Edition 1, mainly around digbeth as thats where the “creative community” in birmingham has based itself… but have also been posting them on notice boards in universities, parks and digitally. i’ve […]

2 new artists are now working in unit 11 studios! they are jess ross and caroline mcpherson – both well known to us as they were students with us at solent. both painters – so the walls are getting painty […]