Departures Airports represent the ultimate non-place, a space where temporarily nobody knows me and I know no one else. The airport architecturally and psychologically offers a release from the daily routine entering into a streamline of time and space, with […]
Footnotes: the emerging artist Being Valued 1. This morning five beautiful catalogues arrived for RE:animate, the oriel davies open 2010, and an exhibition I have work in. It’s fantastic to be part of something where the artist really feels valued. […]
Hooray for a much more productive day. I ended yesterday with a late night wrestle in the studio and skyped my other half for a bit of sanity. Too much alone time facing off a piece of work and I […]
Developing paintings which need more work to finish. Both are based on parks in Berlin in the winter. They are both on smaller canvas.
Got a First Class Honours for my degree in Photography and can’t really believe it…I haven’t had time to take stock… as I have been preparing for a new exhibition at All Saints Library, Manchester called 5 Photographers. The show […]
the “best of” show is apparently coming on nicely. due to previously arranged work commitments i am unable to be part of the curatorial process, which is frustrating me massively. however, it seems to be going well and my film […]
The painting/conceptual debate continues both explicitly and implicitly in the blogs. Painting seems to be acceptable when it is conceptually based. I engage in the debate,but sometimes I feel that my debate is camouflaged self defence. I wonder if this […]
The After School Club.
We are looking forward to the 3rd in the series of open discussions on contemporary art at HMS – this time focussing on drawing which ties in with the PV of Robert Luzar’s exhibition. Aprroximations To… SUNDAY 4th July 2010 […]
Who knew that one journey up to the Peak District in my friends brown Escort in the mid eighties, armed with my first camera, would yield so many paintings twenty something years later. Netherseal. See also, ‘Stephen in the car’ […]
Footnotes: the emerging artist Finding Ones Place – How did I get here? I am wondering how did I get here? In some respects I feel like I haven’t had the time or space to think properly for a decade. […]
The oPenn House exhibition proved rather a success – the intrigue of the house (being an old Rowntree residence) was a big advantage in that it brought people from miles around. I had brilliant feedback, and the atmosphere on the […]
The essays referred to on the last post (cue bugle music) have arrived and been marked. The “portfolios” have been inspected and included in the assessment of “use of learning resources”. The last block has started, and the two new […]
‘New Land’ Photographs of installation of thirteen paintings. Oil on canvas. Six paintings 150 cm x 57 cm Seven Paintings 61.5 cm x 46.5 cm Photographs of paintings to follow.
The opening in the roof of the Pantheon allows all weather to come in. The disc of sunlight from it is shown here on the curved inner wall. The contrast of light and shade on buildings is captured on photographs […]
Having proposed this work and been given the go-ahead from the artsdepot I seem to have found my self torn between a variety of necessary but very different activities. Trying to find schools that are willing to participate and help […]
For some reason on some days you get out of bed and your head is still in sleep mode and you never quite wake out of it. After having a very productive day yesterday, today has been opposite. I managed […]
Anya Beaumont is an artist based in north London. This blog is about a site specific paper based project she is undertaking at the artsdepot in North Finchley in conjunction with the Big Draw. This requires her to source paper […]
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
8 May – 13 June 2010
LSO St Lukes, London
22 June 2010
