An article by Jeffrey Kastner in Cabinet magazine features an “unusual artistic collaboration between the French artist Hubert Duprat and a group of caddis fly larvae”: A small winged insect belonging to the order Trichoptera and closely related to the […]
i’ve been out for walk, not on my own. having got back i’m faced with a mind full of thoughts of doubt and non anger. i know i’m not angry, i’ve been through the emotional mine fields necessary to progress […]
I showed my work as part of ‘Wirral metropolitan College’ at the Manchester Artists Bookfair today. I’ve been ill all week so hadn’t seen any of the students work finished before today. The work was at a really high standard, […]
Manchester Book Fair today – hmmm – an odd day. I was asked to put some work onto a table shared with all the Wirral Met students, I spent a lot of time producing book work and had loads but […]
Since leaving the Royal College of Art 4 years ago, after the wilderness of life after college, after many struggles, through much determination to engage with artists and the art world, I finally feel part of something…..an arts community, a […]
I am four weeks into a part time Masters in Ceramics at the Cardiff School of Art and Design in Howard Gardens. I’m learning a lot about the creative process and how I as an artist negotiate my way through […]
6 Nov. – House is full of cardboard, can’t move for card facades and cutting templates. Seem to spend hours searching internet for mirrored perspex, board, plastic, lights, disco balls etc it’s all getting. v. theatrical !.
If you are interested in making films, especially low budget ones on a shoestring, then a visit to Cafe Flicker, the monthly open cinema in Glasgow is a must. It’s run by Glasgow Media Access Centre and I have been […]
I took another look at the metal bits included in the installation. I thought there were too many of them, so I removed some and relocated others. I turned some of the found objects into ornaments for the window ledges; […]
Bodhan Litnisansi came from Russia to France as a teenager in the 1930s. He fought in the Second World War, was captured and spent five years in a prison camp. After the war he was repatriated to Viry-Noureuil, where he […]
Artist Profiles Dominic Allan Dominic Allan’s work is redolent of the ethical and pragmatic Orwell of My Country Left or Right or The Lion and The Unicorn. In Allan’s hands this is infused with the sparkle of a candyfloss rush […]
Artist Profile BERN ROCHE FARRELLY Consisting of a pair separate video works, ‘Black Blank’, and ‘Colour Color’; ‘Croma Coma’, was conceived as a neutral space, a void were the experience of null (no/lack of light) overwrites the materiality of the […]
The trees are on fire, molten leaves carpet the roads, leaving exposed what was once hidden and nurtured by the tree. Nests and drays, empty of their fragile inhabitants remind me of the essential nature of the tree for me […]
Project development documentation November 5 2009
Joy, joy, joy but not all joy. It is all over. The show is hung, the conversation had, the drink drunk and the invoice almost ready to go. I say almost because I don’t have a printer at the moment, […]
I am having a creative crisis! Yesterday, in a rushed attempt to sketch the idea I talked about in my last blog I came to the conclusion that I am more of a conceptual artist… As I have recently read […]
I went to B&Q yesterday (AKA ‘hell on earth’ in our house) to get some MDF to make a couple of plinths for my forthcoming exhibition. I can’t recall the exact price when I last bought some around a year […]
interesting how washing up provides a period of time to reflect on what’s happening right now. in theory i’m on an ma, i have a submission for a commission pending and a part time job application pending. daily i’m feeling […]
Wey hey! Back after an absence. Shall I start my posts with that lovely phrase, ‘Dear Diary…’, thereby keeping at bay the terrible affliction of Blogger’s Block (why?…for whom? …the futility of the artistic life…oh, woe is me!). We have […]
Le Chéile in Australia. Veronica has kindly sent these photographs of the touring exhibition, taken in Bordertown, South Australia. It looks good, and shows what a lot of work was involved in setting it up. AC
