Sometimes I wonder 'why' am I doing this, is there another career inside me? I have researched and studied trees and the subconscious: the book list is now enormous, the information is gigantic, the practical work is massive and my […]
Have just finished reading/checking "The Children of Craig-y-nos". Dr Carole Reeves, my co-author, has done a magnificent job reducing my 125,000 words to a readable 64,000. She is off to Utrecht next week to give the keynote address at the […]
I have been neglecting my blog and I miss it. Alas I have pressed pause on my whirring sculpture; I have however still managed to keep printing. Printmaking really does seem to be my fallback option as a creativite outlet. […]
Today I am procrastinating again to do some new work, I know I have enough to fill the space for Wrexham, but I would like to do some newer pieces. My thoughts are about what images to use from my […]
Novemeber 13th Got the image for the advert finalised, so now the wheels are in motion and looking forward to our first overseas project.
Jumping from a tremendous height into an exhibition of Surrealist (with a Greaves influence) paintings and drawings in a Nottingham City Gallery during May 2009. I will make time for a sculpture too. I am on creative ideas overload and […]
I also had the good fortune whilst I was in Paris to be staying in the delicious Montmartre Studios, live/work spaces for artists build by the city council in the thirties. More exciting. The building is on Rue Ordener, almost […]
Maturity. I started this blog as part of a re-engagement with my practice, now I feel that my practice and I are on the brink of a significant shift. It’s exciting and a little frightening. I know I’m resisting it […]
Good Samaritans Foiled by Art’s New Enfants Terribles Last night two members of the public tried to rescue a man whose voice could be heard calling for help from the boot of a crashed car at Staffordshire University. The Good […]
a slightly bust time. this week has been slightly busy, mid term assesment of research progress and tutorial for dissertation progress. one is in happier state than the other. somehow i've got the unhappier one with time spread before it, […]
Hi, as you can guess I’m new to this, there is never a good time to start and I never quite feel ready so I might just as well get on with it. Painting: I painted big pictures with lots […]
Why is it that I always find myself desperately getting applications together at the last possible minute? Time after time I'm standing breathlessly in the queue at the post office ten minutes (well, sometimes five minutes) before the post leaves […]
Getting past the blank canvas I started to doodle, and from doodling I began to paint. With a little pressure and some urgency I managed to get a couple of pictures done for the affordable art fair in Battersea, one […]
Kim von Kothen Kim von Kothen’s self-reflexive practice is based upon observing, condensing and synthesising her impressions of her environment into poetic form. Her project “Conversations in between strangers” began by undertaking close observations of the conversational ‘dance’ between herself […]
We had a very interesting talk today by an established Welsh artist called Chris Griffin. It was fascinating to see how his work had developed and the influences that he drew from to create his art. It made me reflect […]
Set up by Arts Council England in 2002, Creative Partnerships is set to become an independent organisation. Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), as the organisation will now be known, will receive a
In October, Iniva announced the appointment of Tessa Jackson as interim Chief Executive.
Engage’s enquire programme, the largest systematic review in England to focus on how children and young people can learn through galleries, contemporary art and with artists, published its findings in November as 02 Inspiring Learning in Galleries.
Last spring, Yorkshire ArtSpace Society hosted Junko Mori within the artist in residence programme.
Arts Council England’s latest consultation now launched focuses on self-assessment and peer review and you are invited to have your say.
Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Pulse, blown glass, neon gas, electricity, 16x12x10cm, 2008.
Zooey Martin profiles the work of Rowena Dring.
What happens to all the unwanted avatars? When we no longer want these ‘second lives’, do they just revert to inert data held on a server?
Few people will not know that Liverpool, in the early autumn of its European Capital of Culture 2008 year, has been visited by a Big Spider.
South Hill Park, Bracknell
1 November 2008