We're just approaching Rothera this morning after 10 days at sea.Yesterday was one of these days that will stay with me forever…..I'm just posting some pics for now until we get off the ship and the internet connection is better. […]
Why is it that every time you tell folk you are an artist ( as happened yet again at a party last night) the first question is:"Do you make any money out of it?"
The Allotment show opened last night and despite so many other events, there was a reasonable turn-out. The feedback was good too, with some interesting comments to consider if we repeat the event in 2008. The show moves to Long […]
Picasso was once asked:"why do you make work" and he replied:"why do birds sing?" Thursday means IT Guardian. Victor Keegan is writing about the Slingbox.. This is a new gadget that allows you to access your computer and telly from […]
Footprints Jack Schofield in the Guardian suggests using the free"crap cleaner" if you want to remove tracks such as browser history, cookies, autocomplete entries etc.
Tate Britain
10 October 2005 to 1 January 2007
Maureen Paley
10 October 2006 to 11 November 2005
The Grant Bradley Gallery
11 November 2005 to 1 January 2007
I often wondered what was the attraction of my film on the Bridge of Allan Highland Games this summer. I thought it was nostalgia, all those ex-Scots abroad wanting a taste of their homeland. Now I have just received a […]
BBCMidWales online have posted my story- but we've got problems with the video and copyright music…http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/abercraf/pages/annshaw.shtml
Received my first electronic Christmas card of the season – from Glasgow School of Art. http://www.gsa.ac.uk/ Seems they are cutting back on Christmas cards ( an excellent idea!) and using the money instead to fund scholarships.
One of the big attractions of You Tube is that it offers inter-activity. You create a piece of work and others comment on it. Its no longer the perogative of art critics and curators to say what is or isnt […]
Practising artists can subscribe to a-n and sign up for AIR – Artists’ Interaction and Representation, to receive enhanced benefits.
This is now the 4th day of being at sea on board the James Clark Ross. We're out in the middle of Drakes Passage, a notoriously dangerous part of the sea where the Pacific joins the Atlantic in a 600-mile […]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MRRzv-APp2U Will this work? some friends went to the Antartica earlier this year and I put their photos together into a musical slideshow and popped it up on You Tube. I'm following Anne Brodie's account of her residency in Antartica […]
I was going to show a video in Cafe Flicker last night at the open cinema run by Glasgow Media Access Centre http://www.g-mac.co.uk but decided instead to write the piece for the BBC Wales online site. Have just sent it […]
Attended an evening seminar yesterday in the CCA, Glasgow organised by the Cultural Enterprise Office.([email protected]) It was excellent! It focused on building confidence and developing skills. Called"Looking back, looking forward – with confidence".Voice coach Hilary Jones, who trains actors at […]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-2487919,00.html Hope this link works to Grayson Perry's account of the Turner Prize at the Tate gallery.(links not working today…help webmaster where are you?)
Following my video "The Singing ghost" about Craig-y-nos Castle in Wales the BBC web-site have asked me to write a piece for them on the book I am researching about the time this was used as a TB sanatorium for […]
A 13 year old boy has just signed up to my videos and I have got a message from a 34 year old guy who found the film I made on Dunblane " Best in Show" under Google. He doesnt […]
Based in a former potato warehouse in Hull’s Fruitmarket area, Hull Art Lab (HAL) staged many challenging and disciplinary art events over the past two years.
The launch of projects unedited in late November was the latest addition to a-n’s series of open, interactive websites.
Having worked as both a self-employed artist and a teacher, I disagree with Paul Rowbottom’s assertion in the December issue.
Newport my home town is situated in South Wales and lies on the banks of the river Usk. You can’t miss the river it bisects the city, numerous bridges link up the two sides of the river. You might have […]
I arrived in the Falkland Islands on Saturday afternoon, thoroughly exhausted after 2 days of long haul travelling. The journey so far though has already been amazing, the people from BAS that are travelling with me are great fun and […]
