DISCUSSION EVENT – TUESDAY 8 JULY This was a busy day, getting the work in position, ready for our Consultation Meeting with Frances Lord in the morning. Scurrying to Sainsbury's to buy the wine for the evening. Quick 10 mins […]
I continue to download an image everyday from the British Antarctic Survey sit, trace it and upload a copy to my blog www.notantarctic.blogspot.com where they remain largely unlooked at. I am really beginning to enjoy the futility of the whole […]
Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
26 June – 23 July 2008
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
21 June – 7 July 2008
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
14 February – 6 April 2008
Being involved to some extent in the planning of the installation I am intrigued by what seemed at first to be a simple miscalculation in the amount of time scheduled for the work to be put up. Making the usual […]
I haven’t updated for a while, mainly because installing the exhibition took up nearly all the waking hours that I had. But I have been making notes and half finishing some posts – So now that the exhibition is open, […]
Forget-me-knots in a Sea of Stitches A quilt with supporting artworks, May 2008 By Kirstie Nichols This project involves a quilt, a great deal of patience and a needle and thread: July 2007 saw the first stitch of this hand-made […]
Brilliant! – I’ve just had the dates confirmed for a show in Norway. So long as I can get everything together before I go on holiday I’ll still have time for a dry run in the studio before I make […]
Finished patchwork punch bag last week. Thankfully I like it again! I went through I period of wondering what I done and why I'd spent so long working on something that didn't please me. Now that I can stand back […]
I still have to organise my work experience placements. The research brief is to identify key criteria for the Academy's Happiness in the Workplace Awards. I need to get back to basics on how work is defined. My balloons and […]
Contemporary Beardism is keeping me awake at 2am. Not out of worry or concern but just out of excitement. I am co ordinating the month long show at the Crompton Tavern in Derby and it is starting to occupy my […]
Lots and nothing happening at the moment. Went to see MA show in Leeds, and Cy Twombly and RA shows in London. These trips stimulated new thoughts, and opened my world again a bit – need to do this regularly. […]
Origin Interactive; Crafting Space – Starting points.. This project, which feels like it came from nowhere and has happened very quickly, is a step up in scale for my public, participatory practice as an artist. I am drawing very much […]
AUDIENCE, COLLABORATION AND DEVELOPMENT When I did a performance lab with Janine Antoni in 2006, (Lore and Other Convergences) she got us to write a letter to our audience for the piece we were making together. I really like this […]
