New Zealand artist Luke Willis Thompson has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018 with his 35mm film of Diamond Reynolds, autoportrait.
This is a celebration of contemporary botanical art and artists around the world!
Of all the different printing techniques/processes I’ve tried, screen-printing is the one I’ve struggled the most with, both in terms of making it to the end of the process and in terms of producing work that I actually like. I’ve tried it the […]
As degree show season starts to get busy, we highlight 11 final-year undergraduate and postgraduate shows that are opening over the next seven days.
before i start to write, i’ll drink tea. i’ve walked around, drunk tea, felt the breeze on my shins and checked on the timer of the oven pyro. filled by mug with more tea and sat down. i have a […]
As part of the bursary I recently made the first of two visits to ‘Lunatraktors’ studio in Margate to begin working further on the ‘Song of the Shirt’ with Clair Le Couteur. Clair has taken Thomas Hood’s very long original […]
I had big drawing plans for the third day but they were overshadowed by my lack of preparation for a 4 colour CMYK Riso workshop I had booked for 7pm. The workshop was at Rope Press and I needed to have […]
Day 1 of my residency was a flop and doesn’t warrant its own post so I’ve decided my residency actually starts today, Tuesday. On Monday I missed my train in an attempt to track down a lightbox I lost in […]
Today at the beach high tide line I rediscovered an idea. 45 years ago I launched a toy yacht on a pond on Wimbledon common. Attached to the keel was a torpedo shaped, battery powered propellor, somewhere in the middle […]
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: Jupiter Artland marks 10th anniversary with first permanent commission by Phyllida Barlow; UK museums suffer as Heritage Lottery grants plummet; Arts Council of Ireland issues impartiality warning over abortion referendum.
Long distance walks through beautiful places, looking to capture what I see and how I feel
Why do I (we?) need permission to do things our own way? Art research is a thorny, prickly, uncomfortable thing for me. I don’t really like reading other people’s thoughts and opinions… although I do like it when something is […]
A month-long residency in Johnson Vermont with 50+ writers and visual artists
Really excited to announce that I have been commissioned by Dover District Council to make an artist’s film to portray Russell Gardens in Dover Kent, the only example of Thomas H Mawson’s garden design in the South East that is open […]
London’s Griffin Gallery is to close after six years to make way for a new White City based interdisciplinary project space, Elephant West, which is due to open autumn 2018.
One of Scotland’s key commercial galleries for contemporary art marks its 20th year with a new home in a former Glasite Meeting House in the city. Jessica Ramm reports.
This week I’ve been compiling a list of local/UK mental health support services and charities that now feature on our blog and will form a directory in the newspaper. One of the risks of raising awareness about mental health and […]
