What kind of year has 2019 been for you? It has been a bit of a roller-coaster year! For the most it has been positive and moving upward but there have certainly also been some scary and sudden drops too. […]
all around me is tranquilty and piece, the dog snoozing, the lights on the chrsitmas tree gracefully pulse and in my ears liam gallagher sings his hear out being a rock and roll star. watching the documentary Liam Gallagher: As It […]
Artist Hetain Patel, who is also a member of a-n’s Artists Council, discusses his highlights of the last year, including the ‘mega surprise of winning the 2019 Film London Jarman Award.
World-building, creating immersive experiences and collaborative practice.
Join Dwell Time on the Penistone Line for a unique workshop in poetry and drawing on train tickets. Get onboard the 10:12 – 11:28 Huddersfield to Sheffield and/or 11:35 – 12:50 Sheffield to Huddersfield trains at any station to join […]
It has been a good year for me culminating in the Artcore Winter Narratives Arts Council supported residency in Vadodara, India (blog – artcoregallery.org.uk > artist residency > Winter Narratives > Dr Wright). I arrived home on the 21st of […]
Exploring the audio that is my practice, this blog delves into the thinking behind the works to encourage dialogue whilst helping me unravel my thoughts.
The artist and co-director of Salford-based Paradise Works discusses her highlights of the last year including the ‘enormous confidence boost’ of being announced recipient of the Clore Visual Arts Fellowship, supported by a-n.
Conversation Diagrams
I was at a lecture in Leeds today about older people’s mental health and alcohol misuse (NHS Leeds & York Partnership / Forward Leeds). One of the main risk factors to alcohol misuse is social isolation: Lack of human contact […]
Dwell Time interviewed Doug Dennison and Logan Bonham Smith of Unmasked Mental Health: https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/2019/12/29/dwell-time-interview-with-doug-dennison-and-logan-bonham-smith-unmasked-mental-health/ (Content Warning: Discussions about suicide and child death) https://unmaskedmentalhealth.co.uk/ Their app is designed to get people talking, with the option of anonymity, to provide peer support […]
How the a-n Artist Bursary made a difference for the prospective development of the artist
LEO: A-N Bursary 2019 – Research and Development
I’m now finalising my report on my bursary activity – and it feels quite lop-sided. There are some really positive results and achievements, and some disappointing dead-ends. The positive side is definitely the work of bringing together practitioners involved in […]
Do other artists find themselves obsessing over small things? I’ve been away from the studio for family and the festivities, so these things are milling around in my head, in my notebook, even in the occasional song lyric. I’ve been […]
Evening folks. I’m new here – it’s all a bit different to the old Artist’s Newsletter I used to get at Smiths.
The ‘Body Wisdom Discoveries’ workshop I held in Accra in August 2019 involved empathetic touch, body scanning, movement from a body part that ‘called for the attention of the participants,’ drawing, writing and witness feedback. Below are some testimonials from […]
I then went from California to Ghana to learn the Kpanlogo Dance, of the Ga tribe in Accra. This dance is known to be “the dance of the youth,” and originated during the wake of Ghana’s Independence in 1957 as […]
