Studio-Intensive Day 4 A day where things have turned around. Tidying completed. My overnight recording wasn’t quite as well-recorded as I had hoped but surprising amount to noise. Lots of birdsong though. Need to try again tonight. Collage finished, needed an […]
The Glasgow-based arts producer which had previously announced ambitious plans to turn a former modernist seminary into an arts centre, has said it is to close in September after 25 years.
Studio- Intensive Day 3 Past art life has become more bags of discarded paper. Am I just a sum of the rubbish? It wasn’t rubbish then so what has changed? One thing is that the internet has meant that things […]
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Clyde Hopkins, artist and co-founder of Art in Perpetuity Trust Studios, dies; artist Olu Oguibe clashes with city of Kassel over permanent location of work made for last year’s Documenta; and largest public art campaign in United States history announced for midterm elections.
I can not recommend Art in the Garden 2018 highly enough… and it’s not because I’ve been heavily involved with it’s creation, site preparations and because I’ve got two artworks included. Evergreen, our host and LFLA co-founder Jan Griffiths’ home, […]
Described by one curator as ‘swipe-specific’, Zara Worth’s practice deals with object making and how Instagram can be used as a site for performance to video. Richard Taylor finds out more.
During Fruit Routes June 2018 at Loughborough University Anne-Marie Culhane and I will be performing a new iteration of SKEP where visitors will be invited to become ‘SKEP’ donning a traditional woven beehive on their head and engaging with thoughts […]
Fruit Routes hosted by artist activists Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally.You are invited to share ideas for individual, collaborative and institutional action towards a more sustainable life through space to imagine and reflect, walks, conversation and sharing food and drink
In 7 years of blog writing: Got MA Got son no2 in and out of university and into a job Got son no1 married and with a mortgage Got husband retired, and in and out of hospital Got me out […]
So things are progressing rapidly within my work at present. My working habits are on the verge of changing and all feels good in the world right now. A caveat- things in my drawing world usually operate at a glacial […]
Exhibitions in London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham and Salford feature in this week’s selection of must-see shows including Markus Lüpertz’s Tent Paintings, 1965, Alia Pathan’s Fire Rooster and Chantal Joffe’s Personal Feeling is the Main Thing.
a-n launched its current series of UK-wide one-day Assembly events at Paradise Works, Salford with a packed day of discussion that included presentations exploring how to create and sustain a building-based artist-led organisation. Writer and curator Tom Emery reports.
In the faded splendour of Blackburn’s Cotton Exchange, amid the light pouring in from the stained glass windows, a 3.5 metre high, octagonal structure tricks the eye in the latest work by the renowned manipulator of colour and light, Liz […]
Although The Sporting League has faded into the depths of the subconscious, we still have The Super Cup, 2018.
Day 2 Stream of random thoughts, not necessarily coherent. Blog is a form of practice. Described water whilst swimming in a Norwegian fjord a few years ago as sharp. The water in my pool where I swam today was soft. […]
This blog documents a self-initiated, studio-based project of artist development as a response to a rejection to a mentoring scheme.
Well I said last time that the Clematis painting had worked and I thought it had. But after walking away and coming back two days later, I hated it. A BAD painting too fussy, too figurative too awful. So it’s […]
