CARRIE – Well it’s almost a week now since we opened our final show at the Southside, ‘Brigadoon’. It’s been a summer of intense energy and we’re still reeling from the extreme highs and lows that go along with the […]
Our lovely friend Jeni sent me this link, I thought it was so great I decided to share it. It’s the sound of a tree growing – image if we could hear them all! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8267151.stm
Fundingcutsblog: Janie Nicoll has been posting a petition around the place to stop The Park Gallery, Falkirk being closed. If you have a minute to add your support to this really lovely small contemporary art space please add your name […]
This week has been about finishing off work and getting ready for exhibiting, its all the tedious jobs like edges and backs, titles and labels et al.Oh! I nearly forgot, I did have a bit of a strop and took […]
I thought i’d go into more detail on our development weekend, and the benefits of using some of our Arts Council budget to employ a mentor. The 11-12 of September saw us reside in Lincoln for 2 days to work […]
This week, as they say, I have been mostly crocheting fungi! I love crocheted things, but have never really done much. So I am sitting with a hook and a ball of wall just letting the crochet form itself to […]
I keep dreaming that I’m typing great witticisms and brilliant insights into my blog. If only it were true. I can’t even remember them in the morning. At least I am brilliant in my sleep I suppose. I found this, […]
Go-Go installed at M2 Gallery … Back in Stockholm after a week in London installing Go-Go and other work at M2 Gallery and Quay2c House (www.quay2c.com). I really appreciated how much time Ken and Julia gave me over the week, […]
Talking about losing my way (last post) I could’ve slung that sat nav as far away as possible to day. I was dropping off a piece of work in Bristol to be delivered on to an exhibition in London (a […]
Last week was an annoying week. I hit one of those dry spells and wasn’t feeling it with anything I was producing. I made some large drawings of the fallen box, but I found it hard to get into the […]
Mashedpotatoblog: Oh dear, all this moving, returning, catching up has rendered my brain a smallish lump of mashed potato. I am so behind with correspondance and admin but the biggest problem has to be getting back into the pace I […]
I got back from France a few days ago and have just about started to catch my breath. Looking at Emily Speed’s blog it seems that there is a recurring theme with return journeys. We had a 400+ mile drive […]
3.9.09 Podium presentation day for all eight artists and athletes. Didn’t realise how daunting it would be presenting my work and ideas to other artists! I met my athlete, Anne Wafula-Strike. Anne is a wheelchair racer, 100 metre, 200 metre, […]
A shrewish cold galls my throat. Feeling dizzy I was forced to leave my office partway through downloading images from Michael Cousin’s show at g39. I am now writing letters and emails from my bed. So far I have produced: […]
Been working hard, but nothing to show for it. So I’ll show you some piccies from Saturday, the ReOrsa happening that overtook Bracknell. The photos are of my piece – a woven staircase, but check out the whole thing on […]
[email protected] wrote: Attention: General Support Message: Please can you tell me about the grotto wall in the Isle of Wight I am trying to find information about it. All the very best Annabel Dover Hi there, I believe the Grotto […]
Just back from the planet of NY. My first visit. City of culture, cash, cheese, contradictions – and a place to put my complex life into perspective. I should have left the mobile at home – a phonecall at 6am […]
Day 4 Woke with an overwhelming desire to keep the visitors busy with lots of things to do. I am veering towards a voice workshop. My questions seem a little too obvious. Long, long drive to SHP; the fifty miles […]
Following the success of Xavier White’s Full Circle exhibition at Mausdey Learnings ORTUS learning and events centre in the summer. Xavier has been asked by the curator of The Bethlem Gallery to exhibit a Cohedia installation , Beckenham
Journey to the Podium is an opportunity for artists to adopt one of the Essex ambassador athletes and create an artwork that marks their journey to the 2012 games. Organised by Essex County Council Arts Development, the brief is to […]
Abigail Branagan has been advising artists and makers for over a decade. She is a freelance business advisor as well as Business Development Manager at Cockpit Arts in London. She talks to Jane Watt about what makes a good advice session and how makers are weathering the economic storm.
Erica Donovan, If you like this, you might also like this… (I), 25-colour silkscreen print (edition of 50) 40x40cm, 2009.
Over the last decade October has become synonymous with London art fairs, when our attention is focussed on the commercial market for visual and applied arts.
