The magnificent setting of Halifax's Piece Hall is set to be the backdrop for a series of contemporary art exhibitions. Virginia Mason reports. Published Date: 09 February 2009 CALDERDALE artist Alice Bradshaw took one look at the former cloth merchants' […]
I'm still seeking my response to Sue's prints. Did a digital print of one this morning and tried painting over it with gouache…its quite loom-y Pam
Good days printing today. Beginning to put together the final response print. Multilayering with screen print, using gold leaf and linocuts. This image is one of the early stages, still have to finish doing various monoprints on the top of […]
As a group we snaked back round to the entrance when I notice Willi talking to a man, he seems agitated, Jacob steps in and takes him away. It seems he thought we were journalists, we take shade inside a […]
From my image of the Mersey Flower I have created a repeat nostalgic pattern which evokes the spirit of 1960’s. Repeat pattern played a large part in my childhood because my mum was the manageress of a fabric shop and […]
je suis retourné de Paris. Five days in Paris with college, it was exhausting – miles of walking around galleries- what an amazing way to spend a week.If I had only had time to visit the Pompidou Centre it would […]
I signed my contract for the design of this job today and spent a morning looking around Oxford City Council Depots for various types of paving materials. Oxford City Council are amazingly helpful and generous with their resources. The re-claming […]
Using over 400 discarded keys to create an installation which explores our relationship with objects and our obsession with importance & status.
'Far, far away'. Photo: Alice Briggs. poster
Pamela Rawnsley, 'Vessel sequence Four Visits', Silver, 2008. Photo: Keith Leighton. Courtesy: Pamela Rawnsley/Keith Leighton.
Susan Preston, 'Yard Mesh ', Mixed Media on Paper, 2008. Photo: Colin Mills. Courtesy: Rabley Contemporary Drawing GALLERY. 'Yard Mesh' is one of ?The structures? are a series of drawings and paintings relating most closely to sketches made on site. Small sheds and parts of buildings are tethered to the surface of the paper, suggesting of their abandonment and dislocation from the hub of everyday farming activity.
Lesley Birch, 'Blue Almscliffe', Monoprint, 2008.
Photographers Gallery, London
6 December 2008 – 8 February 2009
Dissertation is finally over, and im in two minds about what i've achieved. If anything… It all depends on the expectations i suppose. If the lecturers enjoy reading a paper on me speculating the ideologies of others, with a mish […]
I joined fellow CSM students at Millbank yesterday to see the Tate Triennial. I enjoyed Tacita Dean's Russian Endings and wondered about the original postcards at their source. What odd postcards! When I am not thinking about my work, I […]
well, Sue's ideas about the watcher and the watched, and about how we choose to present ourselves to the world, have produced an image in my head of the little circus dogs that would be dressed up and trained to […]
After my recent exhibition i have realised how annoying it is watching people viewing my work. in the future i am going to avoid this by not going to my own opening nights and getting footage/photos when the place is […]
Had meeting with an official from Scion House, in the Business park attached to Stirling University. They have thrown open an invitation to local artists to use their ground floor to hold exhibitions. Well, they have been inundated with requests. […]
After exchanging prints with Don, my print partner, I had a good think about my reponse to Don's print. I too wanted to focus on my time in Brunei, having lived their for 4 years. After looking at Don's prints, […]