Is there something flawed about me writing on my own? When do I use the words I and we? When do I say they as if it’s their experience I am able to talk about? But it seems that even in groups, it is flawed to think […]
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘The London Mastaba’, 2016-18 Image courtesy of the artist. In July 2018 the Artist Working Group met on the grass in Hyde Park, next to the serpentine Lido. For quite a lot of the meeting we talked about […]
Image credit: Olga Koreleva On June 30th, I facilitated ‘In Circles, Around Tables’, an event at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London. The event took the form of a series of three fishbowl conversations. The format was used as a […]
When I first started thinking about starting the AWG, I secretly hoped that the locations in which we met would have an impact, such that the meetings become just as much about ‘how do we use this space?’ and ‘how […]
Welcome to my blog where I will be writing about my residency at The Fabrication Laboratory in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster supported by A-N Artist Development Fund which I begun in […]
In Brief: news briefing featuring national and international stories including: Employees at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, demonstrate over contract dispute; grants to individual artists down as National Portfolio Organisations receive three-quarters of Arts Council England’s Lottery grant expenditure; and Bristol-based film culture and digital media centre Watershed announces changes to leadership roles.
I have to go and put a bid forward to my local council tomorrow for an art project. I will be building a largish art work for an event in November. It is a very short timescales given what is […]
So I managed to get 24 like on the first post. Not that many as my daughter got 40 on a shot of a cup of juice, but will try again. So am using the posts to look at the […]
This morning we met a woman, who I nearly know. She enters local art competitions and I see her at private views at my local art gallery and things like that. Visually she is a very distinctive woman once seen […]
When artist and writer Alistair Gentry first shared his experiences of depression earlier this year it resulted in a flood of private feedback and led a-n to commission a series on artists and mental health for our Resources section. Drawing on the conversations he’s had with artists and arts workers, he argues for more openness about mental illness and wellness in the arts.
Praised as “the town that loves refugees” in a 2005 issue of Refugees, a periodical publication of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, Utica appears to be a unique city. From those I have spoken to in the last few […]
A sculpture residency engaging with Utica’s refugee community
Week 6: only another two weeks before things start to wind down. It’s time to concentrate, to focus on important things and not get distracted by random events – or is it? Today I enjoyed seeing yet another extension to […]
Joshua Leon If I was to say i knew the outcome of anything in the process i would be wrong. But that is what becomes so meaningful. Uncertainty and the figuring out of uncertainty is explanatory. As each week goes […]
today, I am taking over the instagram feed for North east Cvan. What does that entail and can it help artists
I was very saddened, though not exactly surprised, to hear through AN’s news about the destruction of Banu Cennetoğlu’s ‘The List’ in Liverpool last week. Whatever happened to the work, and no one seems to know as yet, it seems […]
The council have recently cut the grass on the downs as we walk to the sea shoreline. Not a sparrow to be seen, no starlings either. Perhaps short dry grass not their thing. I thought I would let Fred off […]
To mark the end of her time as the 2017-18 Clore Visual Artist Fellow, an initiative supported by a-n, Nicola Naismith presents an A-Z of what the year-long experience has taught her about leadership and being an independent artist.
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes: ‘Herstory’ at Touchstones, Rochdale featuring a selection of work by women artists from Turin-based Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s extensive collection; an exploration of the art of the Weimar Republic at Tate Modern; and the culmination of Tai Shani’ s four-year ‘Dark Continent’ project at The Tetley, Leeds.
I have recently felt that my blog has been in need of a revamp. Having started Art as Therapy in 2o12 as an aspiring Art Psychotherapist, I now realise that the aims and objectives of the blog have changed considerably. […]
