Can’t seem to stop writing this blog tonight…. We are having a farewell bbq come show-and-tell night at Bei Gao on Tuesday 23rd. Quite a number of us are coming to the end of our residencies at the end of […]
FAKE This photo of the ‘Fucking Fake’ t-shirt is in my Whatever I Like book, now available at Timezone, 798 Dashanzi, Beijing. The installation continues at Pickled Art Centre, BeiGao, Beijing until Nov. 4. Recently I learned that fake city-citizenship […]
I cleared my workspace at the start of the week with the intension of having a concentrated creative splurge working on the drawings and photos I’ve made in the town over the last few months. But as usual things didn’t […]
'Beware of the artist' and 'Artists prohibited' – just some signs which I think the men in grey suits would like to pin on our door. Well thats what it felt like until last Wednesday when I took them round. […]
Gallery design, a few notes Don't have a sign so small that a visitor has to peer suspiciously into doorways and repeatedly walk in and out of porches to find your gallery. This is especially bad in a residential/neighbourhood watch […]
My intention this week was to start marking out the 2nd wall painting. This 2nd image involves drawing straight lines over 6 metres long – to make up a series of very long, thin triangular forms. In order to do […]
Projects unedited blog by Neil Armstrong
Everyone asks me, ‘what did I think about Berlin?' Everyone is interested. It is the buzz city now. Especially now, I should add, because Berlin, the city, the word, conjures up a charged frisson and always has. In all those […]
Injections I was shown this piece of veneer by Quentin who founded and belongs to the Staffordshire group. It is thoroughly garish, acid orange and electric blue with flashes of purple and yellow. I think it had been acquired from […]
Project Space Leeds (PSL), Leeds
12 October – 15 December 2007
VINEspace , London
11 October 2007
Anna Puhakka For the past few months I have been working on creating a game. It is a satirical view on the art world and the life of an artist just trying to make it through. This game has worked […]
Sarah Stamp I have been finishing off the writing part of my public announcement, reading prime ministers speeches to get ideas. The announcement is quite detailed in places as I wanted to have the feel of government policies/acts of parliament, […]
The past few weeks for BaseNorth have been riddled with uncertainty. Last week we were informed that the building, which houses Rednile, our studios and the gallery (where we have been preparing to have our exhibition) was sold. In short, […]
ONE VISITOR TO ALLOTMENTA SAYS: ‘Really enjoyed the Open Day. These things I loved, just being there with all the mix of still-growing/dying/dead things around in a frame of mind that allowed letting them be as they are rather than […]
Military Museum We went to the Military Museum today, over in the West of Beijing, easily accessible by the underground which is handy. I don’t tend to visit these places, although I do love a big museum with large displays. […]
I have an open studio so if anyone is in the area please pop in. A l’occasion de la 10ème édition des Journées Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers d’Artistes L’association Acte de Naissance vous convie à la Galerie-Ateliers L’H du Siège. […]
Tilting at windmills? I'm off to London again on Friday to have a look at some of the galleries I spotted at Zoo, I've also had a list of places/people to contact from Gill. Not happy unless I'm anxious, I've […]
I have been too busy to update the blog until now. Its a strange irony that being 'an artist' involves so much stuff that you would think was the opposite of art. Yes, admin day (or rather admin week) rolls […]
Painting I am attempting to use veneer in an intuitive way with one of my pieces of work. Creating an image from the existing patterns within the veneer the process feels closer to the way I am more used to […]
Some food notes
Nicola Smith The running machine element to the work is now well and truly over. I like the simplicity of the circular structured text and image within it. I have been experimenting with cutting out the roundabout section of the […]
I’ve been thinking about what I wrote yesterday – I’m not happy with it and was going to edit that entry but I’m going to leave it and see if I can’t unpick a bit of my uncomfortableness. I […]
OPEN DAY TODAY We put up the gazebo in teaming rain. It began to clear half an hour before opening time and we rushed to set things out. The crow cawed as soon as I put up my board. We […]
More interviews Saturday morning I conducted more interviews in Tuanjiehu Park this morning. It was rather cold and grey, and then started raining quite heavily, but the curiosity and warmth of the locals meant I completed another 15 or so. […]
