Just pondering who to nominate for the Liverpool Art Prize next year: http://www.liverpoolartprize.com/ Lots of good artists working in Liverpool at the moment and some people whose work I love… but you can only nominate three people. It’s a funny […]
PART 2 The exhibition has shown in Elliston Community Hall, Jamestown Belalie Art Gallery, Bordertown Civic Centre Walkway Gallery and will continue to Roxby Downs Regional Gallery and continues its tour well into 2010 throughout South Australia. I was able […]
Report from Australia: Le Chéile at the New Land Gallery, Port Adelaide as part of the South Australia touring exhibition organised by Counrty Arts, South Australia and Visual Art in Celtica Festival Port Adelaide Le Chéile looks excellent in the […]
Phil Illingworth’s forum discussion on Artist Statements has made me wonder how simply it can be written. I am sitting in front of a painting. Wondering what and how I am thinking, and why. Looking at the surface, imagining possibilities […]
The final of Saatchi art school – so after just two commissions, the artists are to put on a group show at the Saatchi Gallery. We are not told how long they had to do it, or what the budget […]
CASPER DAVID FREIDRICH I have had a look at the Artist Casper David Freidrich 1774-1840, a german painter from the romantic period. The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions […]
MORE STARTING POINTS Driving home the other day I heard that the MOD had shut the UFO phone line that had been in operation for 50 years. An MoD statement on the matter says: “The MoD has no opinion on […]
Bird Diary entrySunday 13th Dec 6.50am Coburg nr the Merri CreekDoves – constant regular surprisingly penetrating call; fairly close though not in this garden; no other birds close. Blackbird trill in distance. A crow calls 1,2,3,4,5. (Crows vocal at Annalea’s […]
What are filled out our cities? cars or high buildings? Wi-Fi maybe another answer. http://fireant.itaiwan.net/urban_image/tp.png
I’ve got loads of ideas. I’ve got loads of images, notes, research and thoughts to accompany these ideas. They influence what I make and do but the difficulty is that things are inter-related, that’s it’s difficult to sort things out […]
I’ve got to start thinking about my dissertation for my course. It has to be research considering one or more of: 1. An historical analysis of a single aspect of art or design philosophy or practice. 2. A cross-disciplinary investigation […]
Graphics Project – Brief 5 Name: Deceptions Create a unique alphabet for yourself. It can be using any medium you wish. You can find the alphabet in nature, the beach, in the home, at college. Find the alphabet in the […]
Almost a month since I last wrote! I simply have had no time. I don’t understand where it goes. I want to do more research before I start making the garments for my new project so I spent a bit […]
NFASP (National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers)have got back to me. It feels comforting to belong to something much bigger. Someone is looking at the lease for us. The internet is great for researching cases but we look forward to […]
Most of my works are web-based and the website can provide interactivity for the users. But if I print them out, what changes will happen on the printed works? I made some static images on http://fireant.itaiwan.net/urban_image/crunchtime.php for experiment.
This blog will show London, New York, Chicago, Taipei and Hong Kong Wi-Fi landscapes by decoding Wi-Fi BSSID code then encoding html colour codes. Wi-Fi is popular in cities around the world and it provides a invisible territorial Internet connection […]
Fine art PhD student in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. I am interested in visualising invisible existence in colourful way.
While at art college (and a few yrs after) my work wasconsidered by some to be fairly interesting and engaging (large scale paintings -nude self portraits and being a disabled male it got people talking about my work) My work […]
Having a major wobble at the moment. Pretty much completely to do with the change in institution and space. I knew things would change with the move from Warwickshire to BIAD but I didn’t think I’d have to reinvent the […]
So I’m still reeling… I talked about the loss of my work at my artists’ group the other night, realised it’s a bit soon to be thinking about ways to take it on because i still have a strong feeling […]
I have started getting my things together in preparation for the studio move at the end of this month. I’m not going to get a lot of time in the studio over the next couple of weeks so it feels […]
Oh, just seen I’m featured in a curated selection on axis…. yay! http://www.axisweb.org/atSelection.aspx?AID=2391
I heard back from the biscuit factory today..they didnt accept me work for exhibiting. Still feel like i’m feeling my way back into this. Just need to find more venues to show my work, going to investigate empty shops as […]
I see phantoms in the motes, everything I read seems pertinent to my current research. Recently, in fact while I was traveling back from Brighton, I was skimming through the pages of the latest ‘Cabinet’. I was interested mainly in […]
But now my thoughts fly to the future. My inestimable companion contacted the caller Jerry Bown today. When she first telephoned she was informed he was “calling out” and would not be free for another ten minutes. To my immense […]
