Contractually I have to produce three options for this job. This one I've just done is where I start working from odd feelings, intuition, untangible thought processes, those things you like but cant really be intellectual or elloquant about. I […]
Day 6 Today’s drizzle makes the going soggy. My channels are getting much shallower now so whilst I am having to snap the grass roots rather than dig then all up in one clump, the work feel like less of […]
I'm back in Fabrica today holding one to one sessions with artists for the arc scheme. It's good to be back here and in a different guise. I see that my blog has slipped to the third page of Projects […]
3 cont…It's a couple of days now since going to the gallery show and I can not find out what IOA stands for other than a large amount of things when looked up! I think it was all set up […]
2 Cont…Sounds loads of exhibition eh! Well the book is a good light read on an artists daily work through of stuff's! All the exhibition's seemed thin on the ground. The museum is so big that it is hard to […]
Out and about. page 1 of 3.Weather wet. I had an odd collision, or, in context with this blog report, a happening!A coach trip with a English-French society shopping trip, where I ducked out on arrival from the shopping part […]
The Best of all Possible Worlds I think I'm heading for a fall. Refutation is live, now available at www.refutation.net I went to the launch party which was wedged (literally) into a small shop in Islington. There was beer at […]
Sometimes running a business is horrid. I'm not just talking about the admin. Jem wrote a Christmas/New Year newsletter in 2007 outlining the success of HMS and thanked everyone for their help etc. In addition to all the usual good […]
I am currently working as a curator for a student exhibition. I decided that in order to be able to talk about the relationship between artist and curator i should experience things from both sides. I suggested to a fellow […]
Day 5 Jonathan and I head out in the car on another soil collection trip. The road winds through the rising and falling land in a charmingly indecisive manner. The views of the hills are lovely and we snap photos […]
The ‘Italian’ town of Pujiang is on a large scale and designed, so I was informed by their vice marketing manager, in a contemporary manner. I met him in the sales office and I explained that I am working for […]
I am having a rather frustrating time right now. Things are good but everything seems to be achieved after huge efforts and in slow motion. Yesterday was a case in point. I had an important meeting and set off in […]
I have read through the opportunities in this month's a-n (it didn't take long, they're a bit sparse!), and there's something for Design Factory in there – what a coincidence, it's the same thing I picked up from the Grad […]
My assessment work is all up & hopefully looks good? God, what a week so far though… 2 sick kids now and then today I'm ill too. I was really lucky I got all the work up in the end […]
Today was a day I could concentrate solely on painting, pure heaven! It was a bit of a breakthrough day, it happens now and again, I stumbled upon something so obvious that I can't believe that I was stupid enough […]
Tomorrow is Beacon Day and I haven't found one sponsor this week, despite e-mailing every solicitor in Derbyshire! I felt sure there was a law against such blatent use of copy and paste so I tried to make each e-mail […]
So today I managed to rework 6-7 of these fish. I quite like working on them as I'm not too precious about them. Just go with the flow. I sent images of them to the paymasters…..I hope they meet with […]
Abigail Branagan profiles Collect – the international art fair for contemporary objects.
How does a maker reach the market? Freelance consultant and Market Development Manager for Cockpit Arts Abigail Branagan highlights the key routes.
2008 study by Cockpit Arts and Cities Institute at London Metropolitan University exploring business activity and performance in the craft sector.
Cockpit Arts’ chief executive Vanessa Swann and business development manager Ellen O’Hara speak to Jane Watt about Cockpit’s unique incubator scheme for designer-makers in London.
A new study by Cockpit Arts and Cities Institute at London Metropolitan University, Exploring business activity & performance in the craft sector, provides insight into the recent growth patterns of a number of designer-makers based at Cockpit Arts in London, […]
Matisson Burgin: Shoreditch Space, London
28 November – 8 December 2008