Art at the Centre is an award scheme from Arts Council England, South East that seeks to involve artists from the outset of regeneration projects across the region. As part of this scheme, Maidstone Borough Council looked to develop an Artists’ Quarter in the heart of the town to promote the area’s wealth of creative talent. Here video-media artist Margherita Gramegna and consultants FrancisKnight talk about their involvement in this process and the resulting work, Artists Don’t Bite.
St Andrews Museum, Fife
13 September – 2 November
John Jones Project Space, London
2-31 October
Brighton Photo Biennial, Fabrica, Brighton
3 October – 16 November
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
27 September – 22 November 2008
The Drawing Room, London
9 October – 30 November 2008
Gallery Milliken, Stockholm
28 August – 5 October
Tate Britain, London
30 September 2008 – 18 January 2009
Waterloo Gallery, London
21 October – 1 November 2008
I've been spending a while trying to really get it straight in my head what is at the core of my practice. There's loads of things I'm interested in (in fact I find it quite difficult to edit things down) […]
The last week has been a busy one and illustrates just how much things alter week by week. One week I’m leading up to nothing and the next week I’m wondering how I will fit everything in! I am applying […]
SUNDAY Where is the ladder? We borrowed one for 2 hours to get my bird up. But we need a ladder for these high ceilings. Made a rough sketch of the white bird. Used PVA super evo bond to stick […]
I thought a few images of the performance at A Foundation in Liverpool might be interesting . In the event I managed to complete 51 greetings over the course of the day and as a result now have 51 new […]
Yesterday was a trip to Thamestown so I got the underground, bus, train and motorbike taxi, taking almost 3 hours each way. This is not great. Anyway, Thamestown is as it had been described. A low-rise of Edwardian, Regency and […]
Its already half past twelve on my Art Day and I've yet to do anything art-related. I've finished a book, cleaned nearly the whole house and thoroughly checked my e-mail but done nothing technically productive in view of the fact […]
What a fertile few days… I've had lots of ideas and have started sketching in pen again. Very simple stuff but nourishing in a strange way. Having to think about what to put in for a new open exhibition and […]
I left the project space with a smell of burning sugar in the air today – but don't worry – it was all part of the plan. Following on from Under Ground at Hastings, I'm still experimenting with sugar, paper, […]
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Working on 10 ideas. I learn something new about birds from my daily drawing. Blackbirds and tits and thrushes are 'perchers'. They have 3 toes at the front and one at the back so they can perch […]
I am planning to see what my images look like in different formats. Do I have to paint my images or am I happy having my images reproduced for me. What is special to me about my work!
SUNDAY My storeroom has changed completely today – but more changes yet to come I think. I've brought materials and tools back to the flat tonight to make more boxes. STORE: noun 1 a supply, usually one that is kept […]
I will be travelling with another artist Annie Whiles whom I met at Brazier’s International Artist’s workshop last year. Jacob Jari who is one of the co-ordinators of the workshop I also met at Brazier’s and whilst he was on […]
It's been a while since my last post, but that's not to say Dot and I haven't been busy. We've been planning our strategy for keeping other/other/other going and creating opportunities for the artists to make new work and discuss […]
Hooray my exhibition at the Dome in Buxton is up and running. We put most of the work up on THursday after a slow start. The previous artist had left the board in a sorry state with a load of […]
It’s the closing of Liverpool Biennial on Sunday and we are auctioning off furniture and items from some of the installations and I have two Swedish artists coming over to finish their final work, so I’ll be in work and […]
gerrard lindley, 'juke joint', acrylic / emulsion on canvas, 2007. Photo: twisted tree publishing. a juke joint, complete with advertising, and lone musician