The only thing to do between the Christmas and New Year festivities and to keep sane is to start some new work that can be developed once they are all over. So with that in mind I put together some of […]
The start and end point of this research that has been enabled by the a-n travel bursary are in some respects very different but in the broader context of my practice, I very much see them as interrogating the same […]
Thank you to a-n for awarding me with the professional development bursary that has given me the luxury to spend six funded days in my studio, free from my essential ‘bread-and-butter’ textile teaching work, that I do enjoy, but that allows […]
Having used the first half of my a-n travel bursary to speak to artist run spaces outside of London about their intentions and organization, I decided to use the second half to take The Future is a Collective Project to […]
There is a story about a Native American Indian who was hitchhiking across the USA and kept asking the driver to stop after every two hours of driving. They would stop and the Indian would sit by the side of […]
For me the central experience of the StudioBook programme 2017 in Manchester, to date, is about relationships – building and creating new relationships and finding ways of maintaining and nourishing them. At the same time, it is also about being […]
My art practice has taken me on a tremendous journey this year. I have been intensely busy, and more than fortunate. Two professional awards kept me busy, but also stretched me in very different directions – of which I am […]
With the initial part of my travel bursary I made trips to Scotland and the North West and spoke to artist-led spaces including The Telfer Gallery , Queens Park Railway Club and The Pipe Factory (Glasgow); Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh); Cross […]
I initially applied to the a-n Travel Bursary fund to undertake further work and research for a project called The Shadow Archive, which I had begun as an investigation into self-organised art spaces. However, during the year in which I […]
A blog detailing research undertaken with support from an a-n travel bursary.
Emotional business strategies… europarc project – runs until mid-Jan 2018 Q: What should europarc be called post – brexit? Keep/change name? Survey: https://euromarc.typeform.com/to/eRcXpw At …blip – a space for art, Grimsby. An axisweb vacant space initiative. http://blipartblog.wordpress.com
Not only has the a-n bursary allowed me to spend time in the studio intensively experimenting with different projection techniques and editing videos, it has also given me the time to research forests. I have done this by immersing myself […]
there’s something about this time of year that makes it difficult for me to stare productively out of the window. what i end up doing instead is looking for a mirror to hold in front to make me view myself. […]
Beginning with a move from East London to Margate, 2017 has been an eventful time for Open School East that has included becoming an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation in the 2018-22 funding round. With the accessibility of art education becoming an evermore vital issue for the visual arts, its co-directors look back on their first year by the sea.
I started trading this summer, although my business is still in its early days. But I spent a lot on materials in the previous year, the year for which I’ll now be submitting a tax return. (I was doing some […]
Barby Asante started the year with work featured in ‘Untitled’ at New Art Exchange, Nottingham and is currently part of the ‘Starless Midnight’ show at Baltic, Gateshead. The London-based artist, who was also part of the Diaspora Pavilion in Venice, reflects on a year of career highs and the tragedy of Grenfell.
The Birmingham gallery and artists’ studios was added to Arts Council England’s national portfolio this year, marking a new chapter in its development. Programme director Kim McAleese and associate curator Seán Elder map out the before and after of “a pretty incredible year”.
The London-based artist and winner of the 2017 Film London Jarman Award quotes Shelley, Angela Davis, James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein and more as she reflects on the kind of year it’s been.
My New Year resolution for 2018 is to practice 3D CAD drawing even more so eventually I could move from making a piece of jewellery complete from scratch by hand to introducing 3D printing on some parts of my designs. […]
I’ve recently been preparing materials for the next ‘underlined’ workshop, whilst also reading part of Nato Thompson’s Living as Form (Socially Engaged Art 1991-2011), an interesting book that wrestles with many of the topics also discussed at the Engage Conference 2017 […]
Boxing Day is the best! No prep, no cooking, no housework. Everyone is instructed to help themselves to whatever they want to eat. My sons are game players so there will be an almost ceremonious clearing of the table to […]
