The benefits of Core Gallery to studio members is now about 5 pages long and I shall oublish excerpts onto here- it shall be a good guide for anyone who wants to know about setting up an artist led space […]
Exhibition success! Two entries in the Harrogate Mercer Art Gallery Open Exhibition have been accepted. http://tiny.cc/4j1g6 A charcoal drawing (how retro) Out of the Forest and Shadow, a small painting acrylic on canvas. Is acrylic as souless to you as […]
Post 2: artist in progress or artist in crisis?! Still going on with my process of witnessing the life of arab people in Biella, Italy. Trying to unveil the hidden truth about their living in a totally different culture than […]
Quite a bit going on still, had a weeks work doing the gallery rebuild for the MA showat BIAD, Birmingham City University and the 125 years showas well which has been intresting and more importantly its been really good to […]
“He lent me his jacket and we took to the outside air to collect light that would otherwise be lost if not for the refracting glass of snow. Snow is soon then ice and all angles of thought are different […]
week two begins and i’m a little at a loss. i took the weekend off and got out and did some lovely things. i seem to have spent all day talking. talking about the hockney imagine programme, the chap with […]
Fragmented reports from the field Bags so heavy I was forced to beg for a lift to the station. The train will be one minute late. I anticipate it should take just twenty minutes to cross London with this load. […]
This is the water container from the quarry for the studio…
Ken Fackrell – My World If artists are, by their nature, self-centred individualists (discuss) then talking about one’s own work is another attempt to communicate (or perhaps, an attempt by other means).
It’s always exciting to find a package of processed slide film in the letterbox, doubly so to unwrap it and hold each strip up to the light to see how it’s come out. I’ve got 4 reels back from the […]
As part of the Politics in Print commission I am continuing research into women as activists. A prelimerary search on google throws up so much to explore. My hope is that the print work I produce allows me to learn […]
Lisa Gorton, 'Sculptural Document', Cardboard, paper, works on paper, photograph, plastic, thread.
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
3 – 9 July 2009
South London Gallery, London
16 January – 9 May 2009
Cornet Theatre, Elephant and Castle, London
5 June 2009
BAC, London
6 – 18 July 2010
Kirsty E Smith, 'Stan', mixed, 2009. Photo: Kirsty E Smith. Courtesy: The Artist.
Rowan Seddon-Harvey, 'Found a Pound', Pound coins with Stickers.
Having realised that light and shadow could play such an important part in these drawings, I thought some more about ways of playing with shadows. The newspaper cut-outs cast their own shadows, whether delicate or energetic, and I wondered if […]
This is the next thing I’m doing. A piece of work called Pearlville for a show called Unspooling at the Cornerhouse (curated by Mssrs Bracey and Griffiths) All connected up with another shadowy organisation called AND. And another blog, just […]
Being an account of the continuing adventures of a mendicant artist.
Was directed to the Leadership Unleashed workshops today. Thought they sounded a great opportunity to advance my creative networks and professional development. Completed the application form, it’s a matter of waiting now! Deadline is today, so if you’re interested be […]