Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Are you making the most of it?
Funded by Manchester Metropolitan University and Beacons for Public Engagement, and following an open online vote, North-West-based Lynn Setterington has been awarded a fellowship in public engagement.
Artists across the UK are being challenged to use the nation as a blank canvas for twelve inspirational commissions that will showcase our creativity to the world, as part of Cultural Olympiad.
A collaboration in March between Cockpit Arts and Own-It generated a seminar to explore work by established and emerging designer-makers who fuse craft with technology and their intellectual property rights.
The reason I like walking in the woods with Cosmo is the fact that I am in a world with aboslutley no human contact. The woods live as do the animals in it without human help. Things are controlled by […]
And so it starts… the build up to the show (officially SEVEN weeks only after Easter). I am currently in one of those panic-y states in which every creative spewing seems spectacularly naff. Which isn't an ideal frame of mind […]
Whodunnit? 18 April 2009 By Colin Drury IS it vandals – or artists? That's the question being asked after a Halifax sculpture was partially dismantled and reassembled. Brick Wall, on the Piece Hall lawn, is a drystone structure with three […]
It was so sunny today and the analogy continues with the setting of the sun outside. The lists get ever longer and more frequent and detailed. So little time to complete the final work in. I hope the final push […]
I'm sat in the garden after a hard day of work watching my son play with his cars, he's being extremely creative with everyday garden objects making bridges, tunnels with all sorts of imaginative ramblings exuding from his little person. […]
back to school. up early, tea and eventually toast, that toaster is so tempermental. hand in the home work, chat with teach, he’s shaved, he’s quite dishy you know, much younger looking, it suits him. rush around: return this, photocopy […]
Friend persuaded me to submit at least one image to the Society of Scottish Artists forthcoming exhibition. So I emailed the digital print of "The Journey". Busy drumming up publicity for forthcoming book launch though I learnt today that there […]
Today Sandra is coming up to Llanarmon and we are going out, sketchbooks and cameras in hand to walk, stop, look, snap, sketch and move on. Later after lunch at the Hand, John will interview both Sandra and myself for […]
I am very pleased to have tried displaying my art in a local church as part of my 'banners and paintings' exhibition. The lighting was great and the works looked very fitting for the venue. The bright colours of my […]
Urgh. Counting down the days. Or perhaps I should be, there seems to be a lack of urgency in my practice. Not sure if its relaxed (in a good way) or paralysed. Partly because there seems to be so much […]
