Keeping up my newly renewed socialising, I met up with two other friends of a friend, this time writers from New York. They were rather surprised that they had to enter my studio crouching down through the dungeon-like basement so […]
Berlin is a safe city at least this part of it: Mitte North, Prenzlauer Berg, which is what I'm judging it by. Full of young people, everyone on bicycles, or using the trams and U-Bahns that run around the clock, […]
My practice has change a lot this year. I have allowed myself to admit that I am not a painter, and I never will be. I enjoy it definitely, but it is an endless struggle of the most unproductive kind. […]
I am a third year BA(Hons) Fine Art student at Saint Martins in London. I make books and artists’ books, and get rather excited by anything to do with books; string, wax, book cloth, and maybe even a particularly interesting […]
Advice from artists on assessing opportunities
I understand a-n is researching the minefield of public liability insurance for visual artists.
As I’m sure you’re aware, the Scottish Executive’s long-awaited Draft Culture Bill was published just before Christmas.
I’ve been invited to talk about my work in late March and I’m surprised at how anxious I am about it already. It’s at a friendly gallery and the audience will be mainly artists – and a few friends I’m […]
Phew! I had no idea what I had started when I began to research a book on a piece of missing Welsh history. . The stories from the former child patients are rolling in and its a struggle to put […]
Manchester Art Gallery
1 January 2007 to 2 February 2007
It somehow seems appropriate to come full circle and make a last post sitting back at home at my kitchen table. The journey back was pretty gruelling, made worse by being unused to hoards of people and shops at airports […]
Talking of flea markets, I went back to see if the perfect white bowl was still there, and it was, but before putting down my thirty euros, I wandered around the market and there in the centre, a woman, bundled […]
And still the photos and emails come rolling in…however this afternoon met up with Caroline – we havent met since we were 10 years of age- and she has offered to help with the book. It's an offer I can't […]
Apartment
2 February 2007 to 3 March 2006
Manchester Museum’s first sustained research programme for artists.
Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich’s Limbo-Land is a multi-media installation focused around the space of oblivion, confinement, or transition.
Cardiff Art In Time, affectionately known as the ‘CAT Show’, revives one of the seminal art festivals of the 1990s.
Raphael Daden’s light work for the centre of Barking forms part of a regeneration programme that anticipates the 2012 Olympics in East London.
The Culturgen project is set to establish the destinations and careers of fine art graduates from Nottingham Trent School of Art (NTSAD).
Nicola Wallis, a graduate of the Slade School of Art and AIR member, has won the Adrian Carruthers Studio Award.
American artist Margaret Salmon was announced winner of the first MaxMara Art Prize for Women in January.
Derbyshire Community Foundation and the University of Derby announce their new partnership.
London-based Melanie Russell and Camilla Wilson are amongst thirty artists selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition.
A collaboration between Central Asia and UK, this project is dedicated to forging new links between art communities in these regions through artist’ residencies, cultural exchanges and exhibitions.
Jules Olitski American Colour Field Painter died last night, Sunday 04 February 2007. Those paintings were beautiful and influential. I first saw reproductions of them in Time magazine when it was news that Olitski was making stained paintings with the […]
