I'm OK, the hospital have sgned me off. The last bits of stair will be fitted tomorrow, just in time for the Southwell Open Studios at the weekend. Then it will be time to focus on HMS open studios next […]
Feeling the preasure of my commitments today. I started drawing the cartoon, trying to get a move on, but realised I needed a system to make the boarder with and what I had sketched in was needing a little modifacation. […]
Frankie Partridge, 'Ride Attendant', screenprint.
Peter Flemming, 'Canoe', 2003.
Rebecca Birch, 'Frog Morris'.
Jill Stewart, 'Necklace', Etched Brass, Titanium & Silver .
Jill Skulina, 'life style', fabric and paper, 2007.
Or moors: BOSart ’08 refreshes contemporary practise.
Amongst all the hyperbole, buzzwords, philosophical stances, and fission and fusion of arts disciplines, there is a tendency to forget that the primary philosophical question that the visual arts sets out to address is What is beauty?
With a-n amongst the first to record its phenomenal impact through publication way back in 1991 of Live art, performance as it was then known, exhibited the characteristics of all that was innovative and edgy. In its introduction, Robert Ayers and David Butler commented: Live arts continued value and relevance is mirrored by the extent to which other live artists continue to come up with surprising, disconcerting new possibilities.
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
14 October 2008 – 13 April 2009
White Cube Hoxton Square, London
5 September – 4 October 2008
Sandra Hall and Mitra Memarzia , 'Installation Structures '.
Josephine Sumner, 'Lemur Family', Linocut.