I am now in the last stages of the run up to our Degree Show, which opens on Friday 13th June. I hope that isn't a bad omen ! The project I am working on started with a film that […]
Back in the studio for this week, so have a few things planned… or trying to have a focused plan anyway. There are some new artists moving in this week so new faces around to meet and greet. One woman […]
I realise I haven't recorded the fact that Easter 'happened'! It was always going to be a challenge to work with two festivals that were only a week apart, but Easter was so huge in the medieval mindset that it […]
Ikon , Birmingham
2 April – 18 May 2008
Open studio events are an insight into how artists make work, giving a very different perspective from seeing finished works in a gallery setting or a commissioned piece in a public space. Here we take a look at some of the studios opening their doors over the next few months.
Our guide to all the best degree shows, 2008 Degrees with this issue, features practice updates from last year’s student bloggers1 revealing learning curves, perseverance and collaborative ventures.
So the madness hoverd around the fringe of my mind on this project. It is nearly over now. I had a conversation today and I found out that the site wont be ready for five weeks or so! I expected […]
Throughout the development of our concepts and working methods during the residency, the work produced has allowed us to further explore the physical and pshychological relationship between the space, the space occupier, the object and the situation. Working collaboratively for […]
Golly gosh, there isn't much time left now! I'm squeezing in this reflection time in the lunchhour before heading back down to the workshop. John has become my new best friend! Everyday he comes up with another idea or another […]
Berlin (i) This time last week I was on day five of a six-day trip to Berlin. About now I was making my way from Zimmer Straße to Linden Straße before heading back to August Straße and on to Rosa […]
http://fineart.dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow.jsp It's toooo soooooonnnnn…..!!!!!! Nice poster though, nice and spring like.
We have been researching and compiling census information for a while, and have come up with some potentially colourful characters. For example Sampson Turner, aged 66 years, a primitive methodist minister, at 14 Norfolk Street in the 1861 census. Whats […]
What a wonderful reception i recieved from all the visitors to my exhibition at 'The Custard Factory' on the 12th and 13th April. I would like to thank everyone who visited my show. Please click on the link below to […]
Wow, I’ve been out every night over 5 days now. I'm pooped. Heh. Its funny I'm saying I'm tired yet I am still awake at 2am. Figure that one out. So. 3 openings, (two in Glasgow then one in Edinburgh) […]
Now I have 7 huge stores collecting their cardboard for me.. It occurs to me that I could easily accumulate enough to build a warm shelter in which I could live when I move to London. Tomorrow is a big […]
taking stock in case I am confusing everyone: I am working on: 'Dungbeetle and Sisyphus' 'Giants' for St Luke's, Liverpool 'Devotional Choreography' for Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool and am working with Steve Boyland on a variation of Devotional Choreography "Khoreia". And […]
…an OFF day today…another cold, another sore throat and a headache. OFF days are important to help balance the mind and body. It's often a natural physical response to having done too much. Van Gogh, Emil Nolde, Vasily Kandinsky, all […]
AirSpace and the Axis Festival: This Year the AirSpace Team will be blessing you with eight exciting events from the 18th of April to the 4th May. This includes some Stoke on Trent’s most exciting venues that have been flying […]
Some background: I've never done a residency, but I am very excited. Cranfield Univeristy appears to be as parched artistically as the proverbial nun, there is no art and design courses here just business, engineering and technology. And just post-grad. […]
