With Birmingham gripped by German-style Christmas markets and seasonal shopping madness, on Thursday 7 December the third workshop of the a-n Writer Development Programme took place at the city’s Ikon Gallery. Hosted by Frieze deputy editor Amy Sherlock, the afternoon […]
Five a-n News writers – based in London, Liverpool and Glasgow – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions/art events of the year.
Using this pothole as my focus I’ve been setting up sample plates which map its shape and structure, and allows me to experiment with plate thickness and material. The samples are deep blind and inked embosses. The surface textures of a […]
‘Fire and Ice’, on show at the UK’s award-winning art space for art + environment, explores nature, light and power, raising questions about energy use, over-use and climate change.
Deep bite etching and aquatint on a zinc plate I’ve been working on a zinc plate using using deep bite etching and aquatint. Based on the contours of specific potholes I’ve used the physical processes of etching to degrade the surface and […]
This month’s featured blogger on the a-n Instagram is Jack Welsh. Richard Taylor talks to the Liverpool-based artist, writer, producer and educator about juggling multiple projects, writing about other people’s work, and his interest in archival research and book making.
Date: 13/12/17 Time: 20.17 PM Mood:Feeling guilty.. Listening To: Nothing (although have had Christmas songs going around my head all day..!) Welcome to my 3rd blog post here on A-N! This is a blog about the development of myself as […]
The gallery’s chair of trustees, David Dimbleby, says the cuts will jeopardise the future of the organisation which is based in a purpose-built building that opened in 2009.
The third Thought for Food evening is planned, this time centred on the topic of Boundaries. Not face to face, but a virtual meeting, eating and sharing experience. A Thought for Food pack will be sent out to guests containing […]
Something has been amiss in this blog about Thought for Food. Of course there is the rather random order of the posts due to circumstances outside my control and rightly the blog posts have focussed on the intense and fascinating […]
Yesterday I was in London. A small amount of snow brought the city into a state of chaos. It makes me laugh. It was hardly anything. Last year I was in Helsinki. Minus 26 degrees of Celsius. Everything was still […]
I promised in my last blog post to share the process of making the book ‘I am not Jasper Phillimore’ so here goes. The initial images were taken from digital photographs of the originals. These were turned in to half […]
The winner of the annual award for fine art graduates from the South East region will receive a professional development and mentoring package,plus a bursary of £2,500.
News briefing with national and international stories, including: Activists protest BP sponsorship of British Museum exhibition, plus Louvre Abu Dhabi claims it owns Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi.
Huge thank you to writer Sara Jaspan for this insightful new piece of writing about my work – Spatial Conversations.
You find me in a somewhat reflective mood, such is the mindset that the last month of the year brings. I’ve been thinking about the successes and failures of the last 12 months in the hope that I can learn […]
Being elsewhere There are benefits to leaving home to make work. I left behind my usual commitments and responsibilities, creating internal space, a blank studio and real time. At home my role changes, in accordance with the time of day […]
I’ve often wondered when it is mentioned in articles, job descriptions and so on, what the difference is between an emerging artist and an established artist. Number of years served seems an inadequate descriptor somehow, as we all start, develop […]
A studio visit with curator Helen Nisbet (currently curatorial fellow at Cubitt Gallery London) included discussion around mapping spaces, particularly the presentation and re-presentation of place in paint. I have been deeply involved in a commission to make work in […]
While Joseph and I were in Korea, we visited a ceramic fair in Seoul specifically to have a meeting with the Korea Ceramic Foundation, whom I had met at British Ceramics Biennial, as they were responsible for bringing the Korean […]
