The Green Man of Bamberg He looks so cross with the human race. I was thinking trees…….. about oak trees and inevitably ended up looking round a book shop for stuff on green men etc and shocked myself as I […]
Continuing on my quest to create the worlds first invisible artwork (and impossible to photograph), the anaglypta text reads, ‘I set my cassette recorder to record and left the room, leaving my parents decorating. When I returned to play back […]
During a visit to www.metalculture.com/liverpool/ this week, I met sculptor Phil (www.artinliverpool.com/phillockhart) who will be showing in the same forthcoming exhibition there as Ailis and myself. We had a good natter and after the traditional (and enjoyable) artist-meets-artist moan and […]
BOOKMARKING PAGES Further into ADD TO MY LIBRARY –What Is the Purpose of the Book today? Looking at relating BOOK shows in galleries. This one at V&A takes a less-critical approach. In 2008 an exhibition at V&A has shown the […]
First time back in the studio since getting back from France. It’s good to get back and touch base, all the insecurities you feel as an artist come to the surface if your not working (I’m following all the blogs […]
I have had this photograph selected for the Fabric of the Land exhibition at Aberdeen University, School of Geosciences. I am really pleased especially as it’s one of the first lot of research photographs for Memory of Fire.
I found an extract from Georges Perec’sThe Infra-Ordinary, which I loved, and which chimes beautifully with much of what I’m thinking of these days: ‘How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs everyday: the […]
Today I spent the afternoon with Sarah, one of the curators at YSP and had a good look around my gallery space (mine for a few weeks of 2011 at any rate). It was brilliant to sit down and find […]
Chantal Powell, Siren, bird cage, metallic.
We are heading for straitened times. The UK’s government departments have been ordered by the Treasury to plan for unprecedented cuts of 40% in their budgets as the coalition widens the scope of its four-year austerity drive.
12 Visual art representatives address the damage that will be inflicted by proposed spending cuts, in a letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
Many of us will submit work to prestigious ‘open submissions’: the Royal Academy summer exhibition, Jerwood Drawing prize and other major events, attracted by the idea that the democratic process of selection will allow us a share of the limelight.
Jonathan Baxter asks if Liberate Tate’s interventions and protests at Tate’s recent celebration of BP’s sponsorship is representative of growing concern that such sponsorship is compromising the integrity of artists and arts organisations alike.
Every year the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) runs a scholarship to Florence for students graduating from Scottish art schools. Richard Taylor catches up with Rebecca Cusworth, a recent graduate of Glasgow School of Art, as she prepares to leave for Italy.
Dirty Square Gallery, London
3 – 30 June 2010
