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When looking back at the work in the exhibition and writing this it is evident that there were five streams that evolved during the project & were represented in the exhibitio. Narratives, of which Icarus is an example. Experimental work […]

My practice is an exploration of iconoclastic devices within painting. I have been exploring various ways to use the destruction of art and (the breaking of) the icon to make artworks that deal with the traditions and histories of painting. […]

Pots of Liquid Flesh It was a Friday evening. Mike and Bill were playing chess and I was surfing the internet searching for images of Lucian Freud’s paintings. Suddenly I stumbled across a painting by Jenny Saville, and the hairs […]

Pots of Liquid Flesh contd. At Glasgow, Saville found only one female painting tutor but she followed in the footsteps of Scottish painters like Stephan Campbell, Ken Currie, and Peter Howson, all of whom had the same tutor – Sandy […]

Pots of Liquid Flesh…last part Nochlin, who famously asked first in 1970 and again in 1980, ‘Why have there been no great women artists?” is impressed with Saville’s ‘painterliness’ and thinks she is one of the most interesting and exciting […]

We are now into the final push for the Degree show at Bradford College. 47 days and counting! We are all working hard with the fundraising for the show catalogue and the final decisions on formatting. The Cake Sale this […]

Richard Taylor asks on the www.a-n.co.uk/students home page ‘What’s the pace of a part-time student? Is the work more contemplative or do other commitments conflict with creativity? Marion Piper at Buckinghamshire New University takes us through her painting process: what […]

Teaching Art at secondary school level, enables the fascilitator to lose the anxiety that can sometimes come with talking about Art. The pretence is left at the entrance gates, for it has no place in a school environment. School is […]