Decorating dilemma – is it possible to suffer from "Emulsion Blindness"? Whoosh there's a lot to do! Spent all day yesterday clearing my studio, or rather gallery space, in preparation for the graduation show. Floor scraped, walls plastered and painted, […]
ANOTHER DANDELION As I thought about dandelions I remembered another dandelion. This time from my Foundation Show in 2000. I showed this slide at the University of Brighton talk 2 weeks ago. Pressed flowers again. My first pressed flowers were […]
I am drying the rest of the paper today. It is wonderful to be able to dry it outside, usually I have to use hot-plate type dryers with large quantities of paper. Later I am nipping into the Lightbox to […]
Do you hang on to your past? That's going to be the title for my hanging eggs. I spent the day working out the 50 phrases which are going to go on the eggs.
On 29th February TMG Artist Network had it's official launch at the William Elder Building in Berwick-upon-Tweed. The event was attended by over 40 artists, supporters and potential clients. A programme of presentations, visual art displays, talking together, a drumming […]
One of the things we hope to do as TMG Artist Network is to provide Training and Professional Development for members. With this in mind we applied to a-n for a grant from the 'nan' fund to facilitate some training […]
Nine members of the Network met at The Maltings, in Berwick to discuss opportunities for participation in TMG projects and to pool ideas for two training events, which have been funded by AN. We plan for these to take place […]
Well the postponed meeting that should have been on the 6th of May was eventually cancelled the rescheduled date clashed with another festival meeting. Emma rang around every one instead, confirming if we were doing one or two weekends over […]
Dates have now been finalised for two professional development events: Tuesday 3rd June 10.00 to 12.00 "Networking and Marketing". Venue to be confirmed Wednesday 2nd July time and venue to be confirmed. "Using Arts with People with Disabilities". This training […]
go………. we've done our list and there are thirty six. we don't know how tall this is. next. write next. next. you've written next. what did you write? next, write next. we've written next. what do you think about the […]
I have spent the last two days making a small filing box in which to house the results of my investigation into the Filmgoers Diary. I'm really pleased with it, it has worked really well but why did I feel […]
Took down my artwork in the Durber Gallery on Wednesday, so back in my studio space not for long as we start moving into our Degree Spaces by the end of next week.. Had a Tutorial with my tutor on […]
With a bombardment of art exhibitions, public art interventions and music and video events across the city Axis and AirSpace have given Stoke on Trent a glimpse of how fun and inspiring art in the city can be. Matt Robinson’t […]
It is really slow going at the moment. All the spaces are being re-built for the exhibition, none of them are properly finished with loose boards, missing supports and panels etc. It's all a bit of a mess really. Some […]
PRIMARY PUPILS ENTER THE ART WORLD Nottingham-based installation artist Chris Lewis-Jones feels that he has struck artistic gold working with 52 Year 2 pupils at Forest Park Primary School in Cobridge. Using contemporary art to enhance learning across the curriculum […]
I have finally printed the actual comic! I'm so happy to have that finished! I was going to print several copies, but now time is running out I'm just glad to have one finished comic to go in the installation […]
We have recently started a Network of Artists who deliver community art in the Border area of NE England and SE Scotland. This blog will introduce some of these artists and their work, and the ways in which we try […]
There's a strange sort of feeling about rearranging the department to make way for the degree show; something like a sort of mini-apocalypse, though probably far less threatening! We had a meeting with the tutors this morning, and surrounded by […]
…just returned from France. Things are moving forward. If this was a diary I would happily divulge more, but this is a blog, so I have to be careful what I write. The image shows a view from our meadow…the […]
Things are getting moving in the studio now, we have to move everything to start the 'installation' phase tomorrow. still not sure what im going to make.. but ive got a few fingers in a few sizzling pies so should […]
Week three and the workshop went much better. I rearranged the space, built in a break and some outdoors time as well. More to the point we were doing some more involving, less outcome driven work. Vast quantities of materials […]
Our vision for the photo-shoot is to organize an event which facilitates collaboration between local businesses, and a mix of artists, student artists, designers and photographers. As Art-wave weaving together the strands of this collaborative mix has become our art. […]
Its all getting out of hand….paintings a go go, and black fingernails until the show. I keep mixing up real characters with false or historic. Each with their own hidden meaning for me. The question is whether the variants of […]
Feel like I'm juggling jelly at the moment. Spent most of the day so far trying to allocate time in my diary to get everything done. The main complication as ever is finding childcare to fit around erratic and irregular […]
Tears before dawn. So the other day. What a day that was. Firstly the space I plan on using it full with crap… haha yes crap. :P So i go on the hunt for any other space not used in […]
