Publicly-funded arts organisations are exhorted to extend participation in the arts by getting more people actively engaged in off-site and public realm programmes. Alongside, those in the business world are increasingly aware of the advantages of bringing artists’ ideas into development and regeneration projects. Here we highlight selected projects happening over the summer within the wider public domain.
Several more weeks passed and my connection with the City Gallery all but dried up completely. I still went in a updated them every now and then, but their enthusiasm for the project had withered along with their own funding. […]
There are six museums in Leicester, the main attraction being the New Walk Museum on New Walk. This pillared marvel, reminiscent of a by-gone age of empire and neoclassicism, was my museum of choice, it looks like the museum in […]
I spent a joyful part of early July drawing in the Jewry Wall Museum. The staff were marvellous, and brought out boxes of ambiguous artefacts as well as 'themed' boxes of animal patterns and human/god forms. I was even given […]
…after a successful exhibition at Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge ,Ireland "Twinned" printmakers are now collecting their thoughts …watch this space!
A young woman stands at a station, she doesn’t know it well but she has been here before. The train arrives. She gets on. Slurps and suckles of artificial sound, accompany the feeding of a swaddled pack. The announcement comes […]
So it has all finished now but I am trying to use the momentum that was created to get more exhibitions, make more contacts and produce more work. I now have a website: http://www.carolinetwidle.co.uk
This feels like the right time is approaching to begin a separate blog for Crafting Space, as it's the offspring of my R+D and deserves a separate time and space for documentation, even though it is very interlinked to everything […]
An account of the process of conceiving, developing and producing a 2 week interactive textile installation commission for Origin: The London Crafts Fair, Somerset House, London this coming October.
Living the artist lifestyle… ran out of gas and thus heating and cooking possibilities, about 5 days ago. Sitting in my large (arctic), Victorian mansion, surrounded by paper, bags and array of pencils. The head full of new project strands […]
I've been particularly busy this week, beginning it off by re-doing my website, it started off as a little brush up on things but turned into a massive change around that seemed to have taken ages! Today I had a […]
Anyone who spends time in the East Midlands will know about the peculiar imbalance between the 'three cities' of Nottingham, Leicester and Derby (in descending order of esteem within the visual arts). I would like to think that 'contemporary arts' […]
Do not get me wrong though, I am not an embittered or rejected artist holding a grudge against the art world, nor am I a non-conformist telling you that everything is shit. I have successfully run arts projects and shown […]
This broad set of benefits was the projects undoing. When I met with numerous potential museum, heritage, culture and visual arts funders each in turn said that it did not meet their criteria because it sounded too much like heritage […]
Suddenly the pressure seemed on to create a project with huge audiences to justify even the tiniest sums of money. I bit the bullet and re-applied stating that I would make sure the exhibition was suitably exhibition-like and well attended […]
With all that has been going on I forgot to mention yesterday that the tragedy of the missing pigeon occurred once again. This time I discovered its absence on the VIP night……too late for action. Apparently said pigeon was nowhere […]
Ken Fackrell, 'Kofferfische', Etching.
