I should have known from previous experience that blogging in the middle of a big intense project wasn’t going to happen. I’m looking back, 6 or so months on, at my last posts and my intentions to write here about […]
Announcing the recipients of a-n’s latest professional development bursaries which will enable 25 members to benefit from advice from one of five visual arts mentors, and a further 15 members to remotely access a series of coaching sessions with an accredited coach.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes: ‘Drag: Self-portraits and Body Politics’, at the Hayward Gallery, London; a group show in Edinburgh of works made in protest at Pussy Riot’s 2012 imprisonment in Russia; and Elisabeth Frink sculptures at Abbott Hall Art Gallery in Kendal.
We walked around our local streets, past the water leak bubbling out the road, Fred drinking from the stream of water running along the curb. The man who lives in the house right next to this water leak was cutting […]
So, I’ve managed to edit a first teaser (on vimeo) called The art and craft of gardening after the book of the same title by Thomas Mawson. This is a non-chemo week so I am relatively full of energy and feeling […]
Janine Antoni is an artist whose work is tied to the senses and how we experience and engage with the world through the physical. Instead of focusing purely on how the art object looks, her approach is more likely to […]
Day 1&2 The Crystal City, Corning, New York Corning Museum of Glass Two days are not enough! $24 buys you a two day pass at the Corning Museum of Glass. This is plenty for most people, but for a glass […]
Kiki Smith’s work often explores our relationship to myth and nature. MoMA suggests, In her recent work Smith has often turned to fairy tales in search of dramatic female personae and alter egos. The poignant vulnerability of childhood is an […]
I paid a visit to Madison Bouckville Antique Week. It’s the biggest vintage fair you will see without a doubt. It cannot be covered in a day and people tend to return on more than one of the days during […]
As a practicing artist I am interested and working on the ideas of how art fits in to the current STEM education.
At the end of July there was a full moon. There will be another at the end of this month. Checking my diary it’s a full moon tomorrow, a full 28 days have passed. July’s full moon was to be […]
The last day of this year’s dig and there were very few people left on site. Everyone is tired as they wind down from a rather intense season. My adrenaline is seeping away and it’s difficult to think clearly or […]
Supported by an A-N Artist Bursary, I am undertaking research with Louise Hobson, exploring ways that we may find collaboration through our shared interests. The funding has supported a visit to Grizedale Arts.
I have been working with this population of wood ants since 2014, (a little at a time, via mini residencies) but this period of film training funded by the A-N bursary allowed me to work alongside and learn from professional […]
In Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Trump proposes 25% tariff on Chinese art; Berlin Wall set to be resurrected – and then demolished – as part of performance; group of 250 protesters at University of North Carolina pull down ‘Silent Sam’ statue.
