Page 1960 – a-n The Artists Information Company

Bless Nicola Dale. She hit the nail on the head with her question: do you see your paintings as actual amalgams of other painters’ mark making down the ages onto the canvas in your here-and-now? Having read your cut and […]

I’ve been a serious art gallery visitor over this last few weeks, well it gets me away from eating the remnants of the Quality street tin where the only sweetie’s left are the one no one wants. I’ve ventured to […]

(Continued from previous blog) Obviously we know who won by now but I was determined not to like Susan Phillipz work, (I’ve never really been able to get my head around sound art) but it was better than I thought. […]

I have been working on a project based on my family. I have recycled an old project about my family tree to make a family album. www.a-n.co.uk/p/569717/ I thought it would take a couple of weeks to complete but I […]

Time is a funny thing. I constantly complain that I do not have enough of it, it seems to mysteriously slip though my fingers. However, at work, time seems to laboriously elongate, and I stand there watching the spidery arms […]

Started the move in today. Met the facilities manager and discovered I have to get the sinks. The studio is warm but sadly has been given a magnolia and brown makeover which was not asked for. The studio is in […]

Sherlock ‘Holmes claims he does not know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, as such information is irrelevant to his work. Directly after having heard that fact from Watson, he says he will immediately try to forget it. He […]

I have just read an extract from Emma Forrest’s book Your Voice in My Head in yesterday’s Guardian http://bit.ly/dKlamU. The book is published by Bloomsbury on 17th of Jan and gives an account of this successful female journalist’s battle with […]

I’ve been rather busy with lots of random stuff, which I’ll get onto, and yesterday had my first meeting with my new language exchange partners here in Xiamen. That is where I’ll start. I met Jia through CEAC, he is […]

6th January, 2011. This is now my last module, and that is a scary thought! Where have the last 2 and half years gone! I have got 20 weeks or so until the degree show. My topic for this module, […]

> Technical Itch This week, I walked excitedly into Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s interactive exhibition, “Recorders”, at Manchester City Gallery. http://www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/exhibitions/index.php?itemID=73 The gallery was quite quiet, so I got to have a good go at everything. The exhibition’s outstanding work, “Pulse Room”, […]

I have completed the August Challenge, which was from the famous Simon and Garfunkel song Scarborough Fair; to sow a cambric shirt with out seams on needlework. Despite taking me the best part of five months to realise I have […]

The expression “A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing” is more or less where I am with my very partial understanding of Chinese. I can read things on the street and understand a character here and a […]

THE SEA (THE ARTIST) THE WRITER (THE SEA). I have this art writer friend who lives in London, she’s originally from Surrey and likes Iris Murdoch novels. We once took a walk through the park opposite the ICA together talking […]

Here’s a link to my gimme shelter Blurb book. I couldn’t get Blurb’s embed codes for book preview to work here. Anyone know how to do it? http://www.blurb.com/books/1908872