Page 2186 – a-n The Artists Information Company

FRIDAY 12TH MARCH Frances Browne, my project coordinator, very kindly invited me to the opening of an exhibition at the Bonhoga Gallery in Weisdale. The gallery is located in Weisdale Mill, which has been converted into a beautiful arts centre. […]

SATURDAY 13TH MARCH COMMUNITY WORKSHOP One of the requirements of the commission is to run two workshops with the community, so the first one was in Voe Community Hall, between 10 and 3, as advertised on Shetland Radio and in […]

SUNDAY 14TH MARCH My first day off! I was determined to see something of Shetland beyond the view from the windscreen. I set off for Sandness, on the west coast. I took the same road for Weisdale, only this time […]

Machines for seeing modify perception.

My interest in silkscreen printing and pattern has inspired me to create a range of patterns on fabric. I have started off with a very simple design, but I feel I could create more complex images using colour separation. Here […]

Hard Graft The past week has been spent driving up and down to Stellenbosch in fierce heat, gradually assembling our extensive research materials, photographs, film, constructions and 2.5 tonnes of salt into an exhibition. On Tuesday, we picked up 8 […]

Group Show “All Art Is, Is Rhythm”……. AV Festival 2010……. “I wish I could play the harp; not a burnt one though” Perhaps drawing on the current tendency for exhibiting shows as “artist rooms,” the Hatton Gallery allows each of […]

Gallery Installation: All the work for the exhibition were collected from the studio and transported to the gallery. On arriving at the gallery the works were placed around the walls of the gallery. The following day three of the tutors […]

Still writing. It’s strange but having read through lots of theory vs practice huffing and puffing on various a-n blog pages I am now realising how a really close engagement with theory is actually really exciting. I mean close engagement […]

MONDAY 15TH MARCH The second workshop day. The wee bairns came in the morning, and the bigger ones in the afternoon. In the development of the Fair Isle knit theme, I had been to visit several outlets of modern knitwear. […]

IT’S LESS ABOUT ARRIVING THAN IT IS ABOUT THE JOURNEY What seemed like a fait accompli five months ago has now become an ongoing concern. At first it seemed simple – do away with anything site specific, audio visual or […]

“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.” Italio Calvino John Harris explores the relationship between these two faces: humour and tragedy. Humour allows certain accessibility with an audience, […]

The Platt Hall Costume Gallery opening was lovely. They counted over 500 people through the doors, and though most people were there to see the newly renovated building and the costumes, and the entrance was pretty crowded most of the […]

During a tutorial today I had two opposing opinions: one was to not show the blog at all, while the other was to show it in either the same room, or the room next door (to the projected installation). Both […]

I have submitted work for a fundraising auction by Backlit, Nottingham’s newest studio group of recent Trent graduates. They have taken over the old premises of Stand Assembly and making their mark. I was at the PV of ‘Raw’ last […]