I was Naked, Smelling of Rain – now an installation Following its’ successful R&D phase funded by Unlimited, ‘I was Naked, Smelling of Rain’ received Arts Council England funding further supported by ARC Stockton, Disability Arts Online, The ArtHouse and Pervasive Media Studio to be […]
Following its’ successful R&D phase funded by Unlimited, ‘I was Naked, Smelling of Rain’ received Arts Council England funding further supported by ARC Stockton, Disability Arts Online, The ArtHouse and Pervasive Media Studio to be developed into a full scale pourable work. Having worked with […]
A nomadic space in the real and virtual worlds acting as a for location for curated activities which explore the relationship between climate change and wellbeing.
Exploring the external physical weather and our internal psycho-emotional weather as as a metaphor
View of my home with a painting by my father (in 1950) hanging above some vintage suitcases and alongside two works of my own from the Buenos Días Dictador (2018) series. A post in which Abuela (grandmother) returns. Those of […]
I am a visual artist and filmmaker who uses moving image to create films, video art and installations. My work focusses on how technology can help to explore the embodiment of people and places. I use specialised equipment and innovative […]
Over the last 7 days I have staged no less than 3 workshops in 3 different towns and cities across the UK. I began at General Office in Stourbridge, continued to Cass Art in Liverpool and ended in Cass Art, […]
‘Bread and Roses’ – created in May 2015 and revisited in December 2019 to coincide with the third General Election of the past four years … Yesterday I revisited ‘Bread and Roses’ a piece of work which has been […]
We’ve now reached the point where the project is complete; we have learned risograph skills, consulted with women artists, held workshops, gathered feedback and created a publication…but over the course of the project we experienced some shifting and expansion which […]
A selection of exhibitions to catch over the festive period, including shows in Birmingham, London, Middlesbrough, Wakefield and Gateshead.
I’d like to ask for your help on a project that I am working on. I am developing some work from the piece above. It’s called Plutchik’s Dice – about the categorisation of emotions. Plutchik was a psychologist who […]
Originally my plan for my piece ‘Winter Blues’ was to use branches from ‘real’ Christmas pine or needle trees that are discarded along pavements in January – an act I find disturbing. This year I have been working with discarded […]
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Glasgow, Salisbury, Scunthorpe and London – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.
Hi all, I am a freelance illustrator, and have been booked to do portraits for a wedding. Does my a-n insurance cover this? Thanks
As a task following on from the first Writer Development Programme workshop at Coventry Artspace on 20 November 2019, each of the eight participants was asked to write a 1,000-word feature on the Coventry Biennial. The piece needed to include […]
Updates and writing from the 2019-20 a-n Writer Development Programme featuring eight a-n members.
Amazon Handmade is not going well, only an odd sale here and there. Their system isn’t conducive to originals because they give more weight in searches to things with lots of stock on hand. They do allow prints and I […]
a-n Mentoring Bursary 2019 has had me trace the many different routes I have made: never taking the short-cut but instead; always the scenic route towards building my identity as artist.
Contemporary landscape painting and paintings inspired by the expressive Welsh artist and painter Osian Gwent living and working in mid-Wales. More about this article at osiangwent.com
over the course of my a-n blogging residency – (playing with words here) i’ve repeatedly returned to the internal notion i struggle to shake off = that i’m a fake artist. it’s not now this clear cut, i do have […]
A review of Shore by Emily Scarrott
