The Big Build Day. This is the Big Build Day for Hoath and Chislet Schools coming together to create a woodland installation in the communal school yurt. This cardboard sculpture will be a walk through experience inspired by the Lost […]
June already!!! I missed blogging in May and only one post in April. But despite that its been an intensely rewarding and significant period for my art practice. After being stuck for a while and with the inevitable and regular […]
It was great to attend the inaugural meeting of a new arts venture ‘the Fruit Factory Network’ at Humber Street Gallery on Friday. Run in partnership with Absolutely Cultured, Hull College & IVE (Creative Innovative Supportive) the network will bring […]
out and about with the Fruit Factory Network based at Humber Street Gallery; encountering, reflecting, acting…
Reykjavík, another place full of contrasts! Beside the Old Harbour is the spectacular architecture of the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre. Henning Larsen Architects and Icelandic studio Batteriid Architects, in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson, completed the Harpa Centre in 2011. A hive […]
I have two small prints in Small Print at The Horsebridge Arts Centre in Whitstable. The exhibition runs until 17 June.
Contemporary visual artists living and/or working in the North West of England are invited to apply to be part of the Artists’ International Delegation 2019, a seven-day visit to Copenhagen and Aarhus in Denmark taking place 29 August – 4 September this year.
We look back at this week’s degree shows Instagram takeovers with highlights from the shows at University of Salford, Nottingham Trent University and Edinburgh College of Art.
The first a-n Assembly event of 2019 kicked off in Swansea with a day of talks, soap boxes, performance and a game of bingo, culminating in the creation of a manifesto for a Swansea union of artists.
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in London, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Stroud and Margate – all taken from a-n’s Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
University of Salford’s Degree Show 2019 was the focus of Jenny Steele’s a-n Instagram takeover, with the Manchester-based artist posting from the Fine Art and Photography shows which are both based in the university’s New Adelphi Building. Selecting Rebekah Beasley’s […]
I’ve just added the chemo drawings I’ve done since January this year to my website: Link This one is from April. “I am currently on maintenance chemo so since January 2019 I have been doing a drawing every treatment day, […]
Due to relocation my studio in Cambridge is available at the end of the month. I am looking for somebody to take over the lease which currently runs until the end of October and then they can arrange with the […]
When I have had a weird day, the studio calls. Headspace is required to filter out, digest, absorb… then reject what is of no use to me, or to cast off those things that cause stress or discomfort. Then to […]
Read all about it ! Highlighting my 5 best reads from last year. The Exform by Nicholas Bourriaud Forever and a day it feels like someone has been talking of Bourriaud and his theories on Contemporary Art and life, But […]
“Artists as a profession are peculiar and susceptible to suicide. The solitary nature of their work and the consequent potential for disproportionate self-doubt represent a toxic combination. Oscar Kokoschka even claimed in 1923…. it as an Artistic privilege: My work contains everything […]
With degree shows season now in full swing there are plenty of new shows opening this week across Scotland, England and Wales. Selected from the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2019 listings, this week includes final-year shows in Plymouth, Manchester, Northampton, Belfast, Canterbury, Leeds, Bristol, Wolverhampton and Loughborough.
Yesterday met with Huddersfield Railway Station manager and have confirmed our YVAN microgrant exhibition will open Thursday 18th July, 6:30-9pm as a permanent display in the main waiting room until they need it for something else (for perspective their outgoing […]
Hello, I am an artist/designer based near Glasgow. I also tutor creative 3d graphics/3d printing etc online. I put my details on a major online tutoring website and I have had a good number of students who I teach via […]
I’ve come to the laptop not really knowing what I want to write today. Having just arrived back from my daily walk at the field I can trace back a series of different thoughts that accompanied my ambling, but not […]
