My 'House' piece excelled itself last week and was awarded first prize in the Margaret Harvey Open. I was ecstatic to discover the news that I had won the solo show and felt like I was walking on air for […]
One day left and I gave myself a bit of a break today. I took some shots around my hotel area, including the shantytown along the Suzhou River that is soon to be demolished to make way for new apartments. […]
More bad news… some of the most established studios in Nottingham look like closing. I was a member of Oldknows Studio Group for many years and I understand the group cannot renew their existing lease. The landlord needs to upgrade […]
Narrative, mark-making, line, colour relationship, proportion, landscape. Work in progress…
I'm still thinking about my question 'When does an image or drawing become a design?' And thank fellow blogers for their feedback. Here are a few more of my ideas around the issue: Does the image/drawing become a design when […]
Thinking about Place: Orang Utan = people jungle /people (of the) jungle. Our guide said to us we know there are people in the jungle but we don't know how many of them are people of the jungle.There are Orang […]
I haven’t played with my lino press yet. I don’t feel like I am moving forward at all sometimes. I have been working on a couple of paintings, one is going quite well but the other that I was more […]
been editting and thinking still recovering from the flu thing, been taking it easy by sitting in front of the computer. been editting again, getting stuff near to finishing for the 6th jan. the edit is starting to have some […]
Cooper Gallery, Dundee
15 November – 13 December
Reading the front page of Portable Radio, a “touring, local podcasting project Amelia Crouch is an artist and writer based in Leeds. a-n Magazine January 2009
I am gutted. Southwell Artspace is closing. 6 artists will be 'homeless' and Southwell will lose a jewel of a gallery. The usual story – not enough funding. I will miss the exciting exhibitions, the lovely people who run it […]
Wow, that week between blogs turned into a month. There is nothing like ill children and my own flu to slow down the train of life. I began to enjoy the headspace being unwell created and in the meantime a […]
I've had a bit of a pause for a week or two. Tidied the studio and stared at everything I've made recently in a blank, out of focus, starey sort of way. Got some books to read for research, but […]
Christmas is approaching fast and any good intentions regarding work are beginning to unravel. With a run of sick children and a new puppy, broken nights spent nursing and cleaning up for others are becoming a regular part of life […]
penultimate day before a break from christmas. and the first day this week i've felt myself. on monday i manged to get in for the 'this is what we require from you in january' meeting about presentation of research and […]
Now life has been a truely sisyphean adventure as of late. Dungbeetle and Sisyphus 1 and 2 are edited, ready to go and have both been exhibited and are both waiting for more outings. The next ideas are still germinating […]
This week has been full of my son's christmas parties and concert's and Christmas. We had some bad news at our studios this week. It seems that someone had the nerve to sneak into the studios whilst artists were working […]
