Plenty has happened since my last post. Mainly, I keep buying cupboards. Three, to be precise, or even four if you count the bedside cabinet I noticed in the secondhand furniture shop while searching for cupboards and realised it would […]
After a a stressful couple of weeks I am back on course. The problems have had nothing to do with HMS and fortunately there have been no serious issues at the studios to deal with too. The deadline for the […]
‘The day was beautiful and it seemed to him that a long swim might enlarge and celebrate its beauty’ Quoted from ‘The Swimmer’ by John Cheever. The vague notion we began with is of ‘altered states of mind’ induced by […]
Days seem to have slipped by. I have looked in one journal I was keeping and saw that the last entry was ten days ago. TEN DAYS AGO. This alarm led me to shaking myself up a bit and returning […]
25 July 2008 – Loweswater Today has been one of the high points of the summer. Richard and we began our Swimming Home project, swimming across Cumbria from Loweswater to Gurnal Dubs. At Loweswater, the surface of the lake was […]
Today: everything went too slow anticlimax mixed with post full moon symptoms it rained I laughed more than I did in all the days of the last 2 weeks combined and was sad more than I have noticed myself to […]
The journey starts at Loweswater and meanders back in a generous flourish across the Lake District to Gurnal Dubs near Kendal, linking twelve tarns and lakes . The stretches of water swum in between might be thought of as the […]
Martin Newth, ' Tower', 2004. Courtesy: The Artist. 'Tower' includes photographs of each of the twelve floors of the vacated BT Tower in Bedford. Like many other large buildings advances in technology have meant that the structure is no longer required to provide the function for which it was designed. These photographs were taken when this telecoms tower was waiting to be transformed into the luxury apartments that it is today.
Janice Rider, 'La Grande Danseuse de Cinquante Ans', Digital print, August 08. Photo: Janice Rider. Courtesy: The artist. Flyer for exhibition
This month sees numerous milestones and celebrations for a-n: firstly, Interface is one year old and to mark the occasion, Reviews has been compiled by its Online Editor Rosemary Shirley whose selection of Interface entries from the past twelve months demonstrate the quality and potential of online reviewing.
David Miles discusses his work Forest as featured on the cover of this months a-n Magazine.
In this months round-up we profile six open studio events.
James Shilton, 'Lost and Found', Film still, 2008. Photo: James Shilton.
Carolyn Lefley, 'Belonging #2', C-type print, 2006.