Ansuman Biswas reviews Who You Are?, Chris Goode’s response to Miroslaw Balka’s How it is, as part of ‘Experiences of the Dark’, 15 March 2010, Tate Modern, London.
Taylor Bell Foundry, Loughborough
23 March 2010
South Hill Park, Bracknell
6 February – 4 April 2010
Nick Fox, Dreamcatcher (chrysanthemum flower), cut out acrylic paint pressed between glass, 23x17cm, 2008.
Being a first time buyer of your magazine I read your letters page with amazement. Is this really the first time that issues about the pretentiousness of the art world have been raised in such depth?
Antony Gormley’s One and Other commission for the Fourth Plinth last year, and more recently Michael Landy’s Art Bin project at South London Gallery both suggest the emergence of a new form of artwork that has the capacity to engage mass audiences directly.
On 3 December 2009 I attended an Arts Breakfast at Deveron Arts, Huntly. Arts Breakfasts form a staple diet within the Deveron Arts programme.
Ramsgate-based artist-led initiative Meltdowns was awarded a NAN Go and See bursary in February 2008 to visit the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeen for research and development. Emilia Telese talks to Stacy Keeler of Meltdowns about their experience.
Thought I’d add some photo’s of the Botanical Illustration ‘Information Boards’ I’ll be doing at the park. These were etched onto perspex using a dremmel, very hard work and I couldn’t use my hand for hours after. May well look […]
I am hoping to sort out dates for Chicago soon – even if we can’t sort out detail. Obviously it won’t be a cheap project so I intend to apply for a travel grant from the British Council. As I […]
Last week was a bit of an off week in terms of work, I guess they come along every once and a while and need to be accepted. I could have easily stressed over it but that would have just […]
Wouldn’t it be amazing to paint like Titian? I recently saw in the Louvre his portrait of a young boy, ‘Ranuccio Farnese’ (normally in the National Gallery of Art, Washington). The way Titian can use paint to be skin, to […]
Lincoln With pity in his voice the mustachioed guard informed me that it would take over four hours to get to Lincoln and that I would be blessed with an hour to cool my heels in Peterborough. At around 25 […]
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 […]
