Seeing St Christopher was the title of the press release I sent out locally in advance of yesterday's Festial performance. August 7 was St Christopher's Day; if you follow the Julian calendar, that is. Medieval people believed that whoever saw […]
The gallery is located in one of the 8 watchtowers that used to exist along the outer city wall of Beijing. It is the only one left, and is quite amazing to see. Built during the Ming period [1500s – […]
FUTURISM IS OURS! We currently have an exhibition of work by children who attended the St. Teresa Summer School, based on the Russian Futurism exhibition at the Hatton Gallery. Felicity Langthorne, Claire Rowlands and myself ran the Summer School along […]
Established in 1986 in Manchester, Chinese Arts Centre celebrates its twenty-first birthday this year.
In response to artists’ own needs for greater engagement with arts interested audiences – whether for selling or conversational purposes – many artists cluster together to create open studio events.
Michele Angelo Petrone, who died in June, transformed the lives of countless cancer patients and their carers by showing how painting could be used to express their fears about illness and death.
By popular request Pensions for artists is running more seminars this autumn.
Twenty-eight artists feature in this major international exhibition of contemporary glass.
With just over twenty-four hours in Lille, the apd ‘Sojourn’ was a whistle-stop tour, but one that attempted to broach the prospect of greater exchange between French and British artists and arts organisations by understanding equivalent professional development provision.
As children and young people are high on the national agenda with a host of new policies and initiatives addressing young people’s services, education and the arts, envision and enquire are hosting additional briefing days in September aimed at gallery and museum educators, artists and others working with these groups.
Susan Jones looks at the practice of Sabrina Cant, who works with glass, including her commission for Bookham United Reform Church.
The work and planning for the storytrail is mainly in place now. All it depends on now is good weather and people wanting to take part! Which isn’t certain at all. However, onward! I am looking forward to seeing some […]
The show was a great success. Although there was torrential down-pour at the opening of the show, quite a few people came. On the second day, Fraire Barnes, an editor of the BBC Collective came to visit the show, and wrote […]
Projects unedited blog by BaseNorth
As a group we represent a diverse cultural and geographical mix, Nicola Smith is originally from London, Sarah Stamp from the North East, and Anna Puhakka from Finland, together we form BaseNorth. Our diverse cultural, geographical background, range of skills […]
All day people were dropping by and being really friendly discussing my paintings. There is such a good feeling here because they are serious artists who work hard, and that makes us understand each other. Through working and visiting […]
In the process of putting some bits n bobs together to form a small book to accompany the exhibition. Nothing fancy just some images/photos and text and some bits from this blog wrapped together, I’ve seen these photo books that […]
Paul Stanley and Rachel Cattle in conversation about what defines success.
Various venues and online
Throughout June, July and August
The canvas all 26metres (86 feet) is now up and stretched. And a new questions has come up. What would you do with a surface area this big? How would the opportunity to use this surface sit in you practice? […]
Thursday 2nd Spent the morning finishing the proposal for Aspex emergency 3 and printed it out, packed it in box and sealed it. Will drop it off today. Went into the university for a few hours. Just in time as […]
Friday 3rd Long Day…. Left for London on the Victoria Train at 9:30, needed to be there at 12. Got off at East Croydon and headed to London Bridge. Fist, walked via Bough Market to Tate Modern, very full but […]
Saturday 4th Spent most of day intimately involved with camera manuals in garden. Hot. I was taught how to use a camera at the age of 7-8 by my father. he was photographer in the Navy so always had a […]
Sunday 5th Totally exhausted. So spent some time in garden but unable to do much other than paint one wall. Spent some time with new camera manuals and updating this…….Deliberatly uneventful. need space to think, hone ideas and prioritize next […]
Monday 6th Will not be writing much today. Today my word and thoughts are dedicated in memory of those 10,000's who died at 'Hiroshima' in 1945. '43 seconds' is all it took for the bomb to fall What would you […]
