Piles Working in the countryside has a lot to do with piles (not the complaint, but of materials) Piles of things are constantly being moved from one place to another, gathered, bundled together, harvested, moved, mown, stacked, un-stacked, restacked, spread […]
October 4th Introduced to this years Social work students taking part in the cross department arts project with SWIG.
This month’s visual arts appointments
Arts Council England’s announcement on 26 September of its new Chief Executive, Alan Davey, was met with mixed feelings in the arts world.
The Crafts Council, the national development agency for contemporary crafts in the UK, has gone through huge changes in the last five years.
Leeds-based artists Lucy Gibson and Yvonne Carmichael are curating a new gallery space in Leeds.
Herts open studios celebrated its seventeenth year in September.
MASA Artists – a group of visual arts practitioners with studios on Blackfriars Road, Salford – are celebrating the organisation’s 25th anniversary with a series of artistic initiatives over the forthcoming months.
Public art think tank ixia’s recent review of public art and planning in England revealed that, through the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the government is considering changes to the planning system.
Black Dog Publishing
Edited by Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson
Sally Lai is currently a Clore Leadership Programme fellow and holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Based in Manchester, the wide range of exhibitions and projects she has been involved with reflect her special interest […]
Sonya Dyer explores Karen Mirza and Brad Butler’s collaborative practice as artist filmmakers.
In a short essay by Richard Hylton on the occasion of Jimmy Robert’s solo show, ‘brown leatherette’, 2002, Hylton recalls Robert’s commentary about his own work gravitating towards “the empty space between materiality and representation”. Robert’s work across the mediums […]
American artist and curator Jen Wu lives and works in London, and is currently an Inspire Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Sara Haq on Judy Freya Sibayan, performance and conceptual artist, curator, publisher and museum.
About me: White Winter Publishing starts as just me, so it seems that talking about myself and my reason for wanting to start this little business is a good place to start. White Winter Puublishing is currently just an […]
Rough, reduced, poetic, essential, contemporary and real, Berlin. The equality, accepting friendliness of people, low cost of living, ease of getting about at all times of the day or night, the safety and lack of harassment, means it is an […]
SITTING STILL AND RUNNING ABOUT An onion head nodded and waved as I sat and stared today. At first I did not see but I stayed, looked longer and saw them: nestled inside among the seeds were small snails – […]
DAY 3 – SEEDS 16 varieties of seed heads and pods collected. 2 green Grasshoppers 1 brown Shield Bug Petrie dishes positioned in zones A, F, J, K and I: 1. In bath 2. Under canes 3. In plant pot […]
Valenciennes is a town in northern France. In the 9th century the region was run by the Normans and in 1008 was badly effected by the Plague. In the 15th century the city was economically independent with manufacturers of wool […]
Reading the other blogs reminds me that I haven’t written for a long while. There is so much to do at the moment that there seems little time to actually write about it. This week I am sending out the […]
GREEN WHITE CUBE On a mild grey morning we struggled with metal tubes and flapping plastic and succeeded in creating a dry area to make and display – our own white cube. The second thing I noticed as I stared […]
DAY 2 – MAPPING Tasks: mark out the individual plots on the allotment with string identify which plots are Jeannie’s and which are Roz’sdraw a plan, marking the plots A – K 47 canes used 47 blue flags to mark […]
Arnolfini, Bristol
15 September – 11 November 2007
Chisenhale Art Place, London
14-16 September 2007
