On Friday 16th February I went on an art trip to the Firstsite Gallery in Colchester with my university peers to see a show presenting the work by Grayson Perry and Rose Finn-Kelcey.Grayson Perry is one of Britain’s best-known contemporary […]
The artistic, social and political challenges of working on three ceramic art projects.
With reference to Edmund Clark’s current Ikon Gallery exhibition ‘In Place of Hate’ – the result of three years as artist in residence at the therapeutic prison HMP Grendon – a recent symposium in Birmingham explored the role of art and its use as a rehabilitative tool. After a day of talks and presentations, Carrie Foulkes finds her belief in socially-engaged practice reaffirmed.
I had a fantastic day at the first Selfscapes event in Dalby Forest last Saturday (together with Joanna Jones) enjoying warm Yorkshire hospitality, meeting artists from various disciplines and working with students from York St John’s university in a very non-hierarchical set-up. The […]
Arts Council Chair Sir Nicholas Serota will lead a team of 17 creative industry leaders to research the role that ‘creative thinking’ should play within education policy. Arts Professional’s Christy Romer reports.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes: light installation at the Hepworth, Wakefield; sound, video and installation at Chapter, Cardiff; and moving image and photographic works at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea.
A short piece on the reality of being a financially and physically challenged artist in the industrial midlands
An important aspect of my research methods is the partnerships and friendships, which develop alongside the works. Such partnerships often last for many projects and in themselves become a form of Haecceity as they inform and support the subsequent art […]
Who would have thought a cane module of 6 weeks – our brief : ‘from the air’ – could be an emotional rollercoaster…perhaps sky diving is a better analogy! It was the term up to Christmas so rammed with other […]
Well a 6am start and a convoluted journey (which way is it now??) were worth the bother to get to the YVAM conference, aimed at early career artists: “the artist’s journey – which way is it now?”. Lots of advice […]
Hi fellow artists…I’m looking to team up with someone who lives outside the UK for a project…surrounding the theme of migration and roots. I am a ceramic figurative sculptor and am based in the Midlands in the UK. I’d like to further my research and […]
So here we have a walk in Seasalter (not Margate) in the middle of February, not a gallery in sight. Pushing boundaries with Walking with The Waste Land #icanconnect. A Photo diary of our walk, with some commentary: http://elspethpenfold.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/walking-with-waste-land-photo-diary-mud.html […]
In December 2017 Workshop 24 started the Found-Sound Riverside project. We spent the day with a group of young people with learning disabilities using Bill’s state of the art sound recording equipment to find, generate and capture industrial, natural and human-made […]
WORKSHOP 24 is a collaboration between three organisations in Stourbridge, West Midlands – Artworks for Change, Goodlife CIC and Riverside House Stourbridge CIC and we are working together to develop a centre for art and well-being. Operating from the Ruskin Glass […]
my phone has been lighting up with yellow warnings of snow – i look out the window and the bight sunlight makes my eyes squint, the bluesky clear of cloud. warnings of things to come. its been half term so […]
