The urn continues to be of great interest at present. I have been investigating numerous ways in which the object can be used in my creative practice. I have drawn, sculpted, painted and photographed various urns. Looking at statistics and […]
X was bathed in an orange hue as it loitered under a lamp outside the Innova Centre – Vaconsoft Parkway. It observed as the lights went out within the platinum enveloped building. A silhouette of a cleaner donning blue overalls […]
Kim Anno exhibition review Kim Anno is an American artist who studied at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Anno is best known for being extremely talented in a variety of ways, ranging from painting and photography, to […]
Two artists’ studios in Belfast are among the seven dropped, with 100 arts organisations sharing £13.1m as the Arts Council struggles to deal with a £23m reduction in public spending on the arts over the past six years. Arts Professional’s Christy Romer reports.
Developing technical skills and abilities To develop skills and abilities in plate spinning I facilitated three workshop sessions at the school with a range of ages and abilities. The first session was more focused and started by introducing the prop […]
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes an exploration of the beauty, fragility and resilience of the heart in Newcastle upon Tyne, paintings by the late St Ives modernist Trevor Bell in Plymouth, and an architectural perspective on the paintings of Monet in London.
X rested by a bench down by the virtual lake. It homed in on the kitchen area of the Origin Two building. Person A: ‘You know wot…sometimes you’ve just gotta let ‘em get on with it…when she relapses…I only know […]
I surprised myself with my participation in a somewhat heated debated following a question about funding dircted towards the young curator/representative of a recently formed artists’ collective in Budapest. During the preceding panel discussion the curator mentioned that she had […]
Waiting for a bus outside the centre of innovation at Europarc, Grimsby. Hope. Rain. Tanned executive. Bearded. Solid silver ring. Talking into mobile phone. A magpie shelters under CCTV camera. Metallic rain intensifies. Smell of steaming tar. …. A reply […]
Reflections on the Budapest Delegation, 2018
Artist studio becoming available beginning of May. Clean and well maintained ground floor space of around 340sq ft with good natural light at £455 per month. Electricity is billed separately. This price is for the half of a whole room which […]
During the delegation I made various field recordings which have been used to make a 20 minute audio piece, available to download and stream here. Below is a short synopsis about the process and thinking behind the recording: John Powell-Jones International […]
I land in Seoul after a long direct flight from London Heathrow. The British Korean Society, which runs a grant scheme offering financial help to support events that encourage and foster good relationships between Korea and the UK, have very […]
Feeling inspired after a day of meetings and presentations. The artists’ run art-scene is a truly wonderous place full of people who with often very limited resources make incredible and ambitious things happen both locally and internationally. Land404 is a […]
Four projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions and events in Glasgow, London, Margate and Newtown.
Here I’ll reflect on a meeting we had with Hajnalka Somogyi, a curator and founder of OFF-Biennale, which helped crystallise some questions that recurred through our extensive tour of Budapest’s art scene, put together by the wonderful Anett Gecov and Jane […]
I registered my new project with the Arts Council and began to write the words in the letter boxes. (Handy Hint no 1: DON’T type them in the letter boxes on the form, type them somewhere else, check the character […]
