Four Scotland-based filmmakers have been shortlisted for the £10,000 prize named after experimental Scottish filmmaker, with the winner set to be announced at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
Date: 10/01/2018 Time: 20.39pm Location: Home Mood: Un-inspired (Truth is best) So a Happy 2018 to all – and I hope the early days of the new year are treating you well! I feel refreshed in terms of a new […]
From January to March 2018, I am resident at x-church in Gainsborough. Over this period I will work with members of the different communities of x-church to develop a body of work about what it means to be a resident in this part of Britain.
Drawing with pencil and prismacolour on the protective layer of cels. After a break from my artistic practice I immerse myself once more in the calming qualities of drawing. But is drawing a pink gun calming?
I’ve had a busy morning cleaning scissors, collecting paper, preparing demo’s and getting everything sorted for the next underlined project workshop where memory café attendees will explore the subject of places through the use of collage. Demo collage I prepared […]
For the latest dispatch in our ongoing Scene Report series, artist, curator and founding director of the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ryan Hughes, offers a snapshot of visual arts activity in the 2021 UK City of Culture.
Alien Skills (collaborative drawing, Rhubaba Committee) Rhubaba first approached me in June 2017 with the question of whether I would be interested in working with them on some research in relation to funding received from A-N. The project was […]
Emma Hedditch led two sessions at Rhubaba which introduced the values, beliefs and principles that are the basis for co-operative practice and the potential for their application within artistic practice and organisation. www.rhubaba.org/emma-hedditch 7 feet of particpants, mugs, […]
Louise (The International Institute for Important Items) tells a story about a neolithic site in France – perhaps Brittany – where the stones, similar to these, were used to build a road. Natassa and Tim listen. map reading 54.859239°N […]
Forms of Knowledge, Methods, Committee Members, A-N, Organisations, Art Objects, Relationships, Experimental, Pedagogical, Custartd Tarts (Casa Amiga), Sharpies, Promarkers & Offcuts Preparation WORKSHOP/WORKSHOP/WORKSHOP with Jake Watts Natassa’s gloves, black coffee How Rhubaba functions, or doesn’t function, as […]
family Siobhan and Elspeth listen to Ruth from Eastside Projects discuss the structure of the organisation (we don’t have hugely clearly defined roles) With semi-skimmed milk, hit biscuits, small succulent plant,teaspoons, pantone notebook and posters to learn from and think […]
Resources and References (in no particular order) Anna and Lawrence Halprin – RSVP Cycles, Driftwood Village, Sea Ranch Cooperative Principals Updated – Ann Hoyt https://www.grocer.coop/articles/cooperative-principles-updated Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06216-7.html Free University […]
News briefing with national and international stories, including: Matt Hancock made culture secretary in cabinet reshuffle, replacing Karen Bradley; tours organised by Christoph Büchel of Trump’s border wall prototypes prove popular; and artists sign letter in support of Lorde’s decision to cancel gig in Israel.
Writing for a-n News in August 2016, Hull-based artist Paul Collinson called on the City of Culture legacy team to “set foot outside their fortress and talk to those who will be left behind to carry on the good work”. Now, after the city’s high-profile year of cultural activity, he looks back over the year and asks, “Where next?”
Just got back from a month in Manilla, NSW Australia. Even the locals were complaining of the heatwave we had. Intended to paint but my brain was frying and the most I could manage was a series of small watercolours. […]
Winter solstice. The shortest day of the year. From here on in days begin to stretch again, light returns. Without the dark there is no light, they say. It was an unremarkable day otherwise, not especially cold or calm, not […]
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Coastal walks remembered in this new painting entitled Black Sea.
I find myself in a rather unusual yet advantageous position of having all of my fragrance based endeavours for the next 12 months secured. The only anomaly to this is ‘Scents of our Time’ – which I’d like to trial […]
I am half way through my PhD first year in the music department at the University of Aberdeen. Over this time I have focused on my thesis topic, re-focused on my thesis topic and changed my topic! I have started […]
