Forth Valley Open Studios. Whoever would have thought that something that started as a vague idea before Christmas with some friends (” wouldn’t it be nice if we could have an Open Studio event in our area just like Perthshire?”) […]
‘Poetry gets its energy from tension between the human imperfections, untidiness and limits it starts from, and its own struggle for formal perfection, for music and cadence’. (Ruth Padel, “52 Ways of Looking at a Poem”, Vintage, 2004). This chimes […]
twenty four days in march…time for another mind map. later today will be a second meeting with our mentor for the project. i like david gilbert. our last meeting was really good for me, i came away inspired to start […]
Is it possible for the artwork and the blog to exist independently? How can the artwork embody certain characteristics of the blog? And how can the blog become as significant as the art? Where is its relevance outside the artist´s […]
EUREKA I’ve had a eureka moment. I’ve been reading Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of Altermodernism and I agree with everything he says. I can also contextualise my work within his theory. In a nut shell the Altermodern Manifesto says Postmodernism is […]
Cabin Fever For the exhibition at Greatmore, we decide to transform our studio into the cabin we spent 26 days in on the ship. It is an ambitious plan after the Stellenbosch show as we have less than a week […]
Good news – I’m going to be doing a residency! The bad news is that it will be in an old factory with no hot water or shower…and it’s a live-in residency. It will be a great opportunity to test […]
Alien Registration At the opening of our Greatmore show, we meet long-lost relatives Stella Kitay and Eda Gawronsky, who are descended from brothers of our great-grandfather, Woolf. Stella had seen a picture of her grandfather Philip’s tailor shop in Darling […]
I am showing a new video piece at uni this week. It’s called Panes and will be showing in the black room to the left of the Holden Gallery at Manchester School of Art on Thursday 25th March…I will upload […]
“Micro Pages” by Abigail Thomas….. Leeds Metropolitan University….. “Please wind the microfilm reader back to the start when finished” While sharing a studio with a book maker, conversations about how her work may be presented occur on an almost daily […]
Very busy day today constructing my letters which I enjoy. In the afternoon was making glazes then applying them and loading a kiln. I don’t enjoy making the glazes as we have to wear a mask, but if the result […]
Reading the letters at the front of this month’s Artists’ Newsletter, I thought I was reading Artist’s and Illustrator’s Magazine, not AN! Don McNeil’s letter provoked a lot of feelings in me. It is true that current art taught in […]
CLOTHES FOR THE JOB Today was 10th day of my temporary job, though it feels like more time then that has passed. Maybe this sense of having been here longer is there because I have stretched it out to 3 […]
I have just returned from time out in Scotland with my daughter. Back through customs carrying seven beautiful roof slates and a broken down bird feeder- doesn’t everyone? So glad I wasn’t made to explain myself even if I do […]
Discovering Malawi. I discoverd that I will be presenting this replica school and everything else that has been produced and connected to this project to the parents on open day! I am actually looking forward to it. I will have […]
Blank Media Collective has excelled itself with their latest exhibition based at the Nexus Art Cafe. Combining multi media installations, interactive puppet wizardry, spoken word and music, there is something for everyone at this event. The launch night featured live […]
Snow/Globes by Lynne Heller is an interactive, multimedia installation based on the concept of ‘Second Life’. She gives the opportunity to become a part of this world of avatars she has created (not to be confused by the film), by […]
I’ve been moving between 4 pieces of work over the last couple of weeks. I’m eager to get these done so I can move onto something else. I don’t want to start another peice of new work and leave these […]
The Chatter by Fivethreefiveproject is an audio piece combined with a photo album and journal, which allows the listener to add their own drawings of people in the cafe. It takes you through a journey of the Northern Quarter, where […]
Well I had my meeting with Merseytravel yesterday, it went well they were very helpful and took me to the lost property office. All the objects are stored in large metal cabinets and the valuable items such as phones that […]
The blank canvas: what to make of it? The world is a blank canvas, and everything in it our materials. Why revert to painting if one has truly assimilated this? In my own case, it’s simply what I love: making […]
I finally managed to get in for a quick tutorial for After Effects on Friday, which seems very straightforward, but I can pretty much guarantee that at some point I’ll encounter some confusion between timing and keyframes. Because I usually […]
I am surprised how disappointed I am. I submitted work for an open submission exhibition and it was rejected. They should teach this module at art college: Toughness of Skin, And How to Keep on Not Being Bitter. It’s expensive […]
Ugh, waited in all day for a man to come and fix things up. Rather than between 8 – 1, it was actually 4.30 when they rocked up. As it was – the day was mainly a write off and […]
Thought of the day – A talented artist does not draw as many lines as one can but draws the least amount one can, and still bring the same effect or more. What do you think ?