Having celebrated its fourtieth birthday in 2008, CARFAC is keen to rebuild ties with the UK. AIR advisory group members will be meeting in June with April Britski Executive Director of CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation) during her fact-finding mission researching attitudes to support to professional artists in the UK.
distance learning degree in embroidered textiles
Walking Home is an idea, a dream if you will, what I am interested in is how dreams or concepts exist in reality. Does the dream fall apart for the viewer or the artist if the artist fails to walk […]
I've just hit a button and lost the long piece of navel gazing I had just concocted to put on the blog. Probably a blessing and I no longer have the interest in my self-interest to re write it. However, […]
(8th June continued) I had a tutorial with Louise Wilson when both she and Jane gave a talk through the visiting lecturers programme at uni recently. The main issue that came out from this, is to have a much clearer […]
Given the events last night's European elections, the admittance of two BNP candidates and the feeling of a general swing to the far right across Europe (at least in terms of those elected), today I've been thinking more about if […]
Time has moved on so quickly in the past two months and as I write this entry, the project is in a state of flux as we wait patiently for the outcome of the funding application to the Arts Council. […]
Today is MUCH better! I feel almost optimistic despite there being a lot still to do in my space. However, the screen is up and mostly covered in tape. The projection looks brilliant with all the reflections it throws back […]
Wow! We had over 2000 applications so thank you to everyone who put in an idea. We've been having a great time reading through them and now it's over to the artists and producers on the panels to read their […]
Wow! We had over 2000 applications so thank you to everyone who put in an idea. We've been having a great time reading through them and now it's over to the artists and producers on the panels to read their […]
NORWICH TEXTILES: exchange / transition / transaction textiles are portable, they can be carried, and are carriers themselves interrogating boundaries – transformation, translation, travel, currency, exchange, communication, flows, value threads of memory. traces. remembering the history of a building or […]
Michael Aitken studied Fine Art at the John Moores University in Liverpool graduating with first class honours in 2005. As well as developing his own practice he works concurrently at Tate Liverpool, Cumbria University as a visiting lecturer and as […]
Sandarbh Workshop, Derbyshire
2 – 17 May 2009
Heron Corn Mill, Cumbria
9 – 12 April 2009
Christopher Thomas considers the importance of potential failure in art-making as described in artists’ blogs.
