We went both to BRYN CELLI DDU very early in the morning today to experience the sunrise at 4:43 am. The ancient monument is astronomically and geographically 'adjusted' in a way that the sun around the time of the summer […]
Corpus Christi was yesterday, by the Julian calendar. I spent a gloriously warm and sunny day at St Andrew's: I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be the only visit where I feel warm enough just in shorts […]
The challenge so far. Anyone who goes to uni faces a challenge. It is probably bigger if you are juggling a family and a partner and possibly employment too. An arts degree becomes an obsessive compulsive thing – that has […]
Blue Monkey Studio held a Networking Event in Autumn 2006 supported by an Arts Council grant. This took place over 2 days and many artists and art managers came to the Studio. Lots of people asked for more events and […]
We built a mailing list and sent out questionnaires to ask what artists would like a Professional Development programme to include. After months of talking to interested people, consulting and discussing possibilities, we put together an introductory evening of speakers […]
I'm expecting THE letter from the Arts Council today giving me the go-ahead for permission to apply. Had a phone call to say it was on the way. It means reprinting the document to resend today. zzzzzzzzHad a visit form […]
Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra': Let us at least talk of us, you who are visual, grim though it may be. Remaining silent is grimmer, all truths that are kept silent become toxic.' His troubled mind seems to float on […]
Yesterday's drive to Clifden was spectacular; sweeping hills give way to mountains and lakes. The circuitous route followed the Inagh valley along a twisty winding road, often perilously close to the water's edge. Rosie met me at Clifden. She is […]
Just tried to upload images but unfortunatly the PC's here need the Canon software, which I didn't bring with me. So written descriptions will have to suffice until I reach home again, sorry!
quagmire drying out patching happening out on the road and inside portakabin traffic management guys quilting anti skid clothing skidded museum and curatorial agreement cabinet chosen clay works continue friday firing mirror mending – zinc oxide plaster tape patching and […]
Last Friday I visited Jane Ponsford of Papertrails, a fellow blogger on AN Projects Unedited. We had met at the AIR meeting at Fabrica in March when Judith and I did a short presentation about collaboration. I wanted to see […]
Coming home to the studio last night the road was blocked off by the police and fire engines. Trams were piled up, about half a dozen both ways waiting in a jam. Apparently a large tree had just fallen right […]
I am amazed to write that I am three quarters through the book already. It’s quite a light read interspersed with illustrations in the form of paintings and drawings and the odd photograph. The author recounts a simple life, yet […]
The flight into Shannon was spectacular. The decent is over water with the green 'fingers' of the two peninsulars either side. There are distant views of hills and mountains and the flight takes you over several islands. An early arrival […]
Since the beginning of the Exhibition / Open Studio on the 4th June there seem to have been streams of people visiting, workshops being run and new contacts being made. There have been lots of local visitors, many of them […]
The past couple of months I’ve had my nose glued to the pages of textbooks and the screen of a computer trying to fathom the intricacies of video compositing using Nitris and Shake (the kind of programmes used to make […]
Postcard from Berlin 4: Weekly meetings for English Speaking Artists in Berlin. Last night I went to a park in Schonhauser Allee in the north of the city, looking for a group of 'English Speaking Artists'. I found them in […]
A heavy couple of days, but I now have a cardboard box containing 180 copies (well, I haven't actually counted!) of Kalender. There is slight disappointment in that the printers have reduced my A5 pages for some reason, which leaves […]
Cell Project Space
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
Jessica Preston, Circles & Cones, 3D textiles, cotton, 2007.
Published this month is the fourth in the a-n Research paper series – presenting and distributing across our wide constituency – Sonya Dyer’s Boxed in: how cultural diversity policies constrict black artists1
AIR news.
Went to the local park the other day and took some snaps for my project. The fine weather had brought lots of people out. You see such a wide range of people enjoying themselves; every age, colour and so many […]
“Duet” All too often pieces from Degree shows disappear and are never seen again. Well, I found a new venue for an audio sculpture I did for my Degree show at Glasgow School of Art in 2001. I sited “Duet”, […]
post Venice 'I'm beginning to wonder if I'm (slowly) becoming the (fine) artists I am meant to be' 'real objects make me happy' 'don't think work, feel it' Perhaps it was the heat, perhaps it was the strange beauty of […]
