Weekly Update 28/9/09 Issue 8 will be out soon! This issue will have work from Hannah Rowlands, Elle Teague and the first works of a two-parter from Mario Kolaric!! Also we have a give away to the first half dozen […]
Making the starter culture: we took a bunch of grapes each and half a bag of flour, and made the culture at our homes in Oxford and Nottingham.
Banners are printed, my Pal t-shirt hasn’t arrived in time, so I’m gonna have to wear something else…. but otherwise I’m getting ready for my glorious hour on the plinth tomorrow!! Please watch on
Writer and editor Jane MacNamee came to visit me in my studio during September. We had the following interview for local and wider publicity about the project.. Hi Clare, are you usually based here as an artist? I’m based here […]
Quite a Sebaldian day. On a mission across town to see a friend, went into the grim building in which he works, up the lift, knocked on the door of his office. “Come in” only to be confronted by a […]
I have been at uni (technically) for three weeks and am going nuts because I missed the Health and Safety induction on the hotshop (because I didnt know when in was) so Im stuck unable to do anything. I can […]
Just to let people know I am having some issues with those little cyber gremlins that we all get from time to time. The full performance that I had writen about previously shall be online soon, In the mean time […]
experiments with drawing I love drawing. Sometimes it is a means to an end, sometimes it is an end in itself, and sometimes drawing is about making the first few tentative steps towards a new place, like learning to walk. […]
Autumn has arrived in Stockholm. Yesterday was bright and crisply chilly. The trees turned from green to gold and red overnight, and the flower stand at Slussen has changed from roses, lilies and gladiola to ornamental cabbages, potted heathers and […]
Bayerns manager believes that his side will be in the running at the end of th season after a convincing 1-0 win over Lunderbach. Olby threw away a 2 goal lead against Athletico leaving the champion’s season in disarray. The […]
This weekend there were two art book fairs in London. At the Whitechapel was the achingly official London Art Book Fair, and at Oxford House was the achingly unofficial Publish and Be Damned. I found one thing at each which […]
I love this quote by Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth “People say what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience […]
Post by Anthony. Been up to Haden Hill House this morning, the sunlight was just strong enough, coming through the haze to give effective light inside. There are some very interesting staircase images, the ones that lead up to the […]
i have not heard from the submission yet, tho i have had a no from lux associate artist programme which is a shame, they had so many applications they didnt even view the films. my form filling needs to improve […]
I met the second year print options group today. I was quite nervous because although I met the third years last week I already knew most of them but I haven’t really met the second years before. They’re a small […]
How Cheap Started So what is Cheap? Cheap started as a zine ran by myself and my partner Nikki Marie Jackson. We’d seen a video at the Cornerhouse about Miranda July’s Joanie 4 Jackie. She was bored of being the […]
FIX09 artist: Hideous Beasttitle: ODD JOBS – A Distracting Experimentdate: 29.09.09duration: 1 Hour AbstractI booked Hideous Beast for one hour at 3pm on Tuesday, 29th September 2009 to give them a task as part of their ODD JOBS project at […]
FIX09 artist: Hideous Beasttitle: ODD JOBS – A Distracting Experimentdate: 29.09.09duration: 1 Hour Results 1. What is the nature of the relationship between the work they do under the label of ODD JOBS and art? Does the job they do […]
The Artists and Contributors When we started out we just showed people we knew because we knew them which was no bad thing, but we just didn’t know anybody else. Once it became free to submit this is when I […]
Planning Learning Contracts…. This is just a follow on from the last post about further methods to develop my visual language… My tutor liked the idea of using the laser cutter as it allows technology to become incorporated. He also […]
Oh, and I will add some photos of my work eventually!
I still feel as if I’m in a bit of a late September slump, but I’ve been getting on with it. I decided it was time for a big studio clear up, as you can see from the pictures, it […]
I got back to some painting. Just grey surfaces. Ultramarine blue and Burnt Siena make almost a black that becomes a beautifully soft grey with a little white. The grey can be nuanced with tints of other colours. The experience […]
Integrating into the public conscious In a similar way to that of the artists we publish we want our work to take many different guises and combine and involve many different areas of popular culture and entertainment so they can […]
‘Spinning plates is a skill in itself, but if you find you are constantly doing this then you need to take a step back from your practice’…………. this months a-n quote homes in on me like an exocet missile. Guilty. […]