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
Night time in the cemetery certainly has it’s thumps and bumps. Sitting in the Chapel late into the evening had me lit up like a beacon for all manner of passers by. The stained glass windows are illuminated and attract […]
Last weekend the lantern festival occured in Machynlleth, it was called Perthyn, Welsh for ‘belong’ an enormous ammount of work goes into making these giant lanterns aswell as the smaller ones, and then there is a long procession through the […]
Remember remember the 5th of November,gunpowder, treason and plot and still nowhere to work. Sorry about that I coundn’t resist. Fireworks going of outside, living in a temporary flat while builders try to fix our bathroom and totally unable to […]
Just finished putting the titles on the work for my forthcoming show at Gallery Deda in Derby. I was hoping to make more new paintings… but I can only do what I can do. I’ve tried to squeeze more time, […]
Firework Night with a fish supper. I was looking forward to a dog walk as I am just beginning to get really busy again and wanted to just chill and let things settle in my mind. I have already just […]
Things have really moved on since I last wrote. I very quickly determined what I am going to do while I’m here. Surprisingly quickly! It is weird how I can go from – eek! no ideas, can’t remember how I […]
Almost completed the commissioned work, just need to pin down a bit of time, then off to the framers I go. I am starting to formulate ideas for a series of works for the show in St Ives. I feel […]
Weekly update 5/11/09 Hello Not lots this week. First A Cheap Affair Christmas, the deadline for proposals is this Sunday so anyone who is interested should get on to us quick! email: [email protected] For anyone on flickr we have now […]
