recently i found the rendition of the french national anthem at the paralympics original, emotive and engaging. the president of the paralympics committee’s speech engaged with me i’ve been considering how i am drawn to small groups of people, at […]
What do you hope to explore or express? How do you want to feel while creating? By asking these questions, you create a framework for your practice that is both meaningful and transformative.
Highlights from a-n members including solo exhibitions by Permindar Kaur in Southampton and Chila Kumari Singh Burman in Bath, plus a new craft festival in Cardigan.
Discover practical tools to balance your art practice with life’s demands in our Wellbeing for artists workshops. Over three sessions, you’ll learn techniques to manage your practice with carer responsibilities, tackle burnout and overcome imposter syndrome.
Session 1 | Wellbeing for artists: Managing your practice with carer responsibilities
Friday 11 October 2024, 12:30-2:30pm With Catherine Bertola
Session 2 | Wellbeing for artists: Yoga and guided meditation
Friday 18 October 2024, 12:30-2:30pm With Ellen Mara De Wachter
Session 3 | Wellbeing for artists: Imposter syndrome and what you can do about it
Friday 25 October 2024, 12:30-2:30pm With Chloé Pierre
Free for a-n members. Please log in to register for this event. Not yet a member? Find out more and join a-n today.
Now in the final run up to my exhibition (and I promise never to mention it again after October) my husband suggested drawing out the walls of the gallery on graph paper (he was a draftsman in another life) and […]
It’s been a slow 10 days or so. My cold dragged on forever and although I tried several times to start new work, I couldn’t find the energy to get anywhere with it. I forced myself to go across to […]
During my visit to the GF Smith Factory in Hull with the Feral Re-wilding Practice program, I was amazed by the wide variety of paper surfaces, textures, and colours. The tactile, sound and visual nature of the papers was truly […]
its come to my conscious thinking that what i an intending to do – my intention is- is to get more play happening within adulthood, to encourage play, and model play for others to become involved with or instigate themselves. […]
I’ve deliberately avoided digitally posting anything anywhere for sometime wanting to let my ideas meander and allow a new studio routine to emerge post Royal Drawing School ODDY. I struggled initially post exhibition, I worked, but what I made felt […]
when i prepared the research degree application i can see now how stressed i became about what i didn’t know – the already published writing. becoming more accepting of what i don’t know and trying to stick to what i […]
I find Facebook memories a useful tool in reminding me what I’ve been up to in previous years. It is useful to see what I was making one year/ three years/ six years ago. Yesterday a post popped up from […]
hello, post day delivering, eating and walking the dog, i need to record some of the thoughts from this evening. i observe of my self there is a sweet spot where my thoughts and emotions and physicality are in sync […]
It can always be a bit of a struggle to know what to write about each month, particularly when I have been carrying on with the same investigations and nothing new has happened. Normally I simply like to write about […]
One of the things I’ve noticed after many years supporting artists is that for many people the accepted career paths are neither appropriate or accessible. If we walk outside the mainstream we have to make to make our own way. […]
