Yesterday I thought I was going to write about pillowcases but somehow that didn’t happen and I ended up writing about how I came to the point at which I decided the direction my work was going to take. So […]
Another good article by Sandi Toksvig. I get criticised for writing a-n blog posts for free, so I know I’m being silenced and pushed out. Another exploitative “opportunity” here. I genuinely don’t know who I am now. I can’t produce […]
I do love a dictionary/glossary definition and this is from Wikipedia’s Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms Chord: A curve connecting two otherwise-unconnected rail lines that lie at tangents to that curve (Usually both lines are straight, one being at […]
With the recent announcement by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland that both QSS and Paragon Studios in Belfast have lost all their annual funding, Damian Magee addresses the impact of the decision on the city’s artist community and argues that it is indicative of a general lack of support for artists living and working in Northern Ireland.
The nature of this blog is that is as much (if not more) for the writer as the reader. I try to capture those fleeting thoughts that affect my thinking… so that I can return to them to pin them […]
The 60 paintings were selected from over 2,700 entries by a panel of jurors consisting of the artists Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Lubaina Himid MBE, Bruce McLean and Liu Xiaodong, and curator Jenni Lomax.
A gathering of my thoughts and experiences during a 1 month residency at Arteles creative centre in rural Finland, where I set out to make drawings based on the people and landscapes I encounter.
I’m still catching up on the weekend’s activities on the south side of the river, when I took part in the Night Walking North Kent Festival organised by Inspiral London. It was fortuitous that this event was taking place during […]
In Brief: News briefing with national and international stories, including: Roger Hiorns secretly buries plane near Ipswich; Sophia Al-Maria wins first major US award for contemporary Middle Eastern art; selectors announced for Jerwood Makers Open 2019.
The Social Making (optional) symposium dinner will take the format of a SOUP event, also held at Devonport Guildhall. SOUP is a powerful tool to start conversations, practice democracy and fund new projects, people, and ideas. Social Making SOUP, supported […]
So where did it all begin? Well for me, with Bob and Roberta Smith’s statement Art is your human right (2016), and a question – if that is the case then why do so many of us struggle to express our […]
Now the weather has warmed up I seem to be working on numerous projects at the same time trying to catch up. There also seems to be a surge in activity in general following the Easter break. This is all […]
Helen Kincaid … delayed rays of a star …
26 April – 19 May 2018
My previous post about painting on Aida looked at the beginning of my experiments. After rejecting the idea of either painting or stitching the outline on painted works, I moved forward by embracing the messiness of the process. I […]
With nearly 100 exhibitions and featuring more than 250 artists, the eighth Glasgow International festival, which continues until 7 May, is a bustlingly busy affair taking place in venues across Scotland’s largest city. To help you navigate it, seven writers on the a-n Writer Development Programme 2017-18 offer their recommendations following an intense and varied opening weekend.
The second a-n Assembly event for 2018 took place at Eastside Projects in Birmingham, an artist-led gallery space established in 2008. Working in collaboration with artist and curator Antonio Roberts, Assembly Birmingham addressed the increasing amount of development taking place across […]
After a busy few months the exhibition went well, throughout the eight weeks people appreciated the paintings’ calmness and the reminder that there is a summer, somewhere, on the horizon. The arts centre staff were truly supportive as ever, which […]
Back in the winter I was invited to join The London Group and exhibit with them in the Waterloo Festival in June. I now need a link to its QCode label – so here is the short journey to ‘Tent’ which is my offering in ‘Nothing Endures but Change.’
Today was a great start to the course. We were given a detailed tour of the 3d printing facilities at The Cass by course tutor, Anatol Just. We looked at the various machines – SLS (Selective Laser Sintering), Z Corp […]
I spent the eleventh day at the Museo preparing my talk and presentation for the following evening. On the twelfth day I was introduced to Iván Sánchez, a Mexican guitarist and sound artist. Iván had been commissioned by the museum to […]
On the morning of the tenth day we met Emma Viggiano for coffee and she showed us the photography book she was designing for Las Pozas. The is full of photographs of Las Pozas accompanied by Edward James’s poems.
