What follows in this final post from my Open Engagement 2018 residency in New York are a series of responses, provocations & quotes from a keynote given by Lucy Lippard. When I posted my first questions onto this blog, prior […]
Does the colour blue promote reflective thinking, contemplation and inner-awareness? In an exploration of this question I have recently started a new venture – ‘This Woman Walking Blue’ where I undertake a series of 1.3 mile walks to and from […]
I thought perhaps we had a 60/40 chance in our favour but it seems not. Our ACE bid was rejected. We have no funds to continue our project. Problem is, well, we’ve started; we’ve run two workshops and been on […]
I think I’ll try to concentrate on what’s actually happening with my own work today rather than everything else in my life. I need to stay focussed. This year has seen massive changes in how I’m working. Its hard […]
Street Spirits is a group exhibition I have been making work for. I have been looking at women and protest. My source material has been from online sights and newspapers. I decided I wanted the focus of my paintings to be […]
How could I have forgotten to blog about my crazy week in Cyprus? Here’s a belated assortment of impressions of the residency at Cyprus School of Art in Lemba, Cyprus. Very, very basic accommodation but so what… the sun shone […]
The Arts Council of Wales has announced that Sean Edwards will be representing Cymru yn Fenis/Wales in Venice at next year’s Venice Biennale with new work that considers social class and the everyday.
I don’t often visit the National Gallery for a number of reasons. The sole focus on oil paintings seems particularly old-fashioned, and the way they are displayed in rigid chronology is also troubling. I feel the weight of art history […]
Nominated for the 2018 Turner Prize and a recent recipient of the European Culture Foundation’s Princess Margriet Award for Culture, the London-based independent research agency Forensic Architecture is making political and cultural waves with its evidence-based work. Chris Sharratt talks to artist and filmmaker Simone Rowat, one of the group’s 15 team members.
Simon Tait is the editor of Arts Industry magazine, a former arts correspondent for The Times, a critic for the London Magazine and a former president of the Critics’ Circle. Here he meets artist SaySay.Love at his exhibition ‘The Matrix of Water’.
The gallery, which lost its regular ACE funding in the 2015-18 round, is to close after over 40 years of regular programming.
It’s such a problem making big stuff. How do you afford the materials? Where do you store it? How do you transport it? What if nobody wants to show it anyway? Image above: If only this was not a 6 […]
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Belgian Art Prize nominees withdraw following all-male shortlist controversy and Turkish artist Zehra Dogan jailed for ‘spreading terrorist propaganda’ continues to paint on scrap paper from prison.
Solo show curated by ‘Departure Lounge for ‘As You Change So Do I’
Highlights for the week ahead selected from a-n’s Events section posted by members, with exhibitions and events in Edinburgh, London, Portsmouth and Plymouth.
Well I think it worked out. Went back to my default mode and made an observational drawing which enabled me to reconsider the scale and details of the flowers, among other things. Then when I went back to the painting […]
I was delighted to see another Ocean Liner exhibition planned in my city, ‘Oceans Apart’ opened earlier this month at Manchester Metropolitan Special Collections. On this occasion, despite the advertising, I had very little knowledge of the exact content of […]
I was very lucky this year to receive an A-n bursary to extend my current research into mid war coastal architecture and begin my project, ‘The Maiden Voyage’. My work since 2013 has mainly responded to 1930s seafront architecture. This […]
Is it possible to be both lazy and obsessive? Is it possible to be lazy and ambitious? Parents, teachers and employers have in turn told me I’m lazy. I would agree with them. Unless I am totally engaged I don’t […]
