“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?” Dr. Laurence J. Peter In my final year the tutors would often remark that my studio space resembled something like a […]
Angela & I had a long conversation yesterday about the project. Now we have an exhibition in sight we need to structure the final stage. We discussed what had come out of it so far and what had changed now […]
My parents came to see the show. It wasn’t straightforward but they did make the effort and it wasn’t easy for either of them at their age. There had been somewhat of a pre-amble via my mother. Would they understand […]
So this week I started a three month residency at Armley Mill in West Leeds. It’s my first residency and I’m actually getting paid for it! Wow! They have set up a dedicated gallery space and a residency programme and […]
I read Glenn Ibbitson’s article ‘RE.The great Open Submission swindle’ in this months a-n and wanted to shout Yes, Yes!, it’s about time someone flagged this up. With a gallery I won’t mention not far from me choosing 20 or […]
Another week in the studio done!!! already 3 weeks in to the final year – i canny believe it… Anyway, my yellow wall is now a more modernist block yellow, but i have kept the reverse side of it the […]
OH YEA I’ve also got some work in the big society show at spacestation 65 in south london which i was really excited about!!! And i have booked myself into a few talks which should help me out with dissertations […]
PRESS RELEASE – BELVOIR CASTLE Fostering the Arts in the Vale of Belvoir – 6th October 2010 Creative times are ahead for residents and visitors of the Vale of Belvoir thanks to an art scheme being introduced by the Duke […]
The post-MA world is a bit of a weird one. You always know after working so stupidly hard on a project, that there’s this odd flatness when it’s finished. Don’t get me wrong, I’m quite pleased to be done – […]
ART vs REHAB – SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED! The Ten-Year Project How much time does a project need? Having spent ten years recording the shifting memories of Alzheimer’s sufferers, Artist David Clegg inverts our notion of a project’s time-frame, touching on the […]
Hanging week again (www.colleencorlett.com) and I must admit I am enjoying a few days off from editing my images. I now have over 100 sites marked on my map and I am starting my research into the history of some […]
Received two particularly touching emails today. In one an artist that I used to know well told me that she’s being treated for breast cancer, and in the other one another artist told me that she’s three and a half […]
Went back to the gallery on Tuesday to take some more photos of my work whilst there weren’t many people around. The lady at the desk said that she had to tell some women off for picking up my books. […]
Hi, I’ve been away a while. Off in the land of not doing very much, apart from thinking about how little I’m doing and wondering why that is so. I didn’t really find the answer, so have eventually decided not […]
Today I had the pleasure of going to Edinburgh to see the Martin Creed exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery and the Surrealist exhibition at the Dean Gallery. I’ve come away tired but buzzing. I had read a few reviews about […]
I have my tubes! After a horrible moment when only one small package turned up on the delivery van – for some reason the big pallet had been sent via a different courier – by 4.30 I had no room […]
continued Extracts from Ecstatic Notebook by Duncan Ward: I get so excited sometimes, seemingly out of all proportion to whatever might appear to be the immediate cause. It is evident that I am tapping into something larger, something that the […]
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continued Extracts from Ecstatic Notebook by Duncan Ward: I purr with pleasure, I try not to cover it up; one of the secrets is not to get ashamed. Ecstasy seems to snowball when encouraged – it needs to be milked […]
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continued Extracts from Ecstatic Notebook by Duncan Ward: I saw the ecstatic smile on the face of a Chola idol whom centuries of anointing under honey, milk, water, ashes, and sand had worn down the metal of, making the features […]
continued Extracts from Ecstatic Notebook by Duncan Ward: People argue even today about Teresa of Avila and whether her ecstasies, which she enjoyed five centuries ago, were of a truly divine nature or if they were simply the mistaken result […]
Francis Alys seems a little dull after Duncan Ward, however I did go to see the show at tate Modern and I do love his drawings and paintings.
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Award-winning sculptor Laury Dizengremel, also photographer, designer & art project consultant begins a 14 month residency in the Vale of Belvoir on the Lincolnshire / Leicestershire border in the East Midlands. Besides modelling busts of the Duke and Duchess of […]
