The opportunities available for visual and applied artists to participate in professional development programmes and develop their careers continue to expand.
Paris – San Francisco-based Hou Hanrou will curate the 10th International Istanbul Biennial.
At a time when over half of those surveyed by Arts Professional confirmed that diverting funds from the arts to the Olympics would not bring benefits to the arts in the longer term, Arts Council England has now come clean and announced intentions to cut the Grants for the Arts budget by one third.
In December 2006, Guyan Porter began a two-month residency in Sri Lanka, as one of the first of a group of six artists to work at the Chandrasavanah Creation Centre in the south of the island.
A 1991 intercity rail map re-presented to look like a tree; a sculpture that changes position with the seasons and an exhausted Mars slumped against the foliage are three of the works short-listed for the 2007 Jerwood Sculpture Prize.
For dinner I met up with Tom and another artist who also works as a bicycle tour guide. Jonathan is German but has just come back from two years in Argentina. His grandparents settled there and his parents had gone […]
Easter has been a wonderful opportunity to draw breath and think about things. Betina, who is mentoring me said that I should assess progress, look at my original aims and work out if I am deviating from them or indeed […]
It's exactly a week now until my first mentoring session with Katie Walton, artistic programme manager for BCA in Bedford. My Arts Council proposal included a programme of mentoring for the year of my residency to help me shift my […]
Bloody hell!… What has happened to me? I used to be so good with deadlines. I would get set the work and then would get it done asap usually within that week. But now…now when it actually counts.. bloody writers […]
After getting the edges right in the orange painting, I decided to try and look up the galleries that are listed in the surrounding area, but it isn't as easy as looking up the address and hey presto there it […]
For two days now I haven't been able to get an Internet signal outside the journalists' office to send any emails, which is frustrating. Finally I copied all my stuff onto a CD and was preparing to do the trek […]
This morning I went to Donja Vrba, to give photographs to Marija, Liza and Ana, three women I photographed last year. They all live in a small village near Slavonski Brod in Croatia. First I visited Marija, who lives in […]
Two more polaroids – table and chair – found on the allotment today. The old wooden chair i took up a couple of winters ago, split in two as I turned to put these into my bag.
Finally we have finished the press release. It has taken three nights, but we’ve made it! These past days have been an interesting experience, because it allows me to think more objectively about my own work while organizing the exhibition. […]
Going down to the basement to try and find a light bulb, I again was in the fantastic atmosphere of dark, burrowing, creepy, sort of dungeon-like basement filled with vivid light cells where Marcus Wittmers and his assistants are working […]
PRINTING, PRINTING, ALL DAY PRINTING. I have begun my printing and binding of the three books, one for each artist/collaboration. I am making ten copies of each book, each as a single section binding. But there is the common problem […]
WORK OUT I have uploaded some photographs for each of the artists’ work. It is completed, and it has been up to me to photograph the images in a way that suits the concept of each book/artist. The first artist’s […]
Putting my head down, I just solidly caught up on the painting waiting to be done and got the colour relationships in place. Gulping down a late lunch of a plate of mozzarella salad, and a chunk of chocolate, I […]
just got back off holiday, will be continiung my blog when i get back to aberystwyth on thursday. i didnt get into the BP Award, but never mind….
For the last month I've been reading these early 20th century, late 19th century, big hitting German masters: Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke and now Friedrick Nietzche's ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra. There is a lot of music in them all-music mentioned […]
On Wednesday I worked with Simon and Hamish, countryside officers, on a childrens activity day. We made some paper and went out pond dipping and then came back to work on some sculptures and bind their paper sheets together to […]
John Mirk's Festial is an early fifteenth century collection of sermons for the major saints and festivals of the church year, for use by priests who were not learned or ambitious enough to find sermon materials for themselves. These sermons […]
on washing windows i developed a special technique for this task: soak and scrub :) and it is as hard as i thought it will be… i was washing windows today in alistair kendry's studio. because the windows are very […]
I am writing this from Zagreb, from a friend of mines computer. We met each other today after more then fifteen years. I cant believe it…such a long time…He left, like myself at the beginning of the war, in 1992. […]
Sculptor Andrew Sabin is presenting new work in an exhibition now showing at Canary Wharf’s Jubilee Park. Previous public realm projects include being lead artist on the Sustrans’ Wandle Trail in Surrey and commissioned artist in Canterbury City Council’s Horsebridge […]
