Blog by London-based Sculptor Laura Napier a recipient of an a-n Professional Development Bursary 2017, awarded to learn skills in Bookbinding, Letterpress and Photopolymer Etching to make a new edition of Artist Books ‘Hazel House’
Image: Jackie Berridge Reading from my last post of my intermittent blog, I now find myself sitting in front of a log fire rather than the sun of Saskatoon. The rain is torrential and the river is rising. A great day […]
The opening module of my Fine Art MA is Critical Review, and we’ve done a number of exercises, building up from 100 to 1000 words. The second task was a 250 word review of Daniel Burden’s Beam Drop. I’m posting […]
Where can I find reliable art couriers. I have had some bad experiences with UPS who have lost a precious piece of work
Hello, going to be running a stall at a market and need to show that i have public liability insurance. How do i get/view a copy of the policy i have through being a member of a.n? Thanks
Circle — Tuesday 7th November 2017 Little Venice – Grand Union Canal – chalk marker pen on glass
The American art historian and author of the groundbreaking 1971 essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, died on 29 October aged 86. Fisun Güner considers her writing’s influence and continued significance today.
I have been busy creating the plaster moulds for the door handles this past few weeks, its slow progress but the first porcelain pieces are now being cast! I have about six weeks left before my first workshops. So have […]
‘Blurred Boundaries’ explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/non-fiction,truth and falsehood Blur’ This quotation from the blurb of Bill Nichols’ book ‘Blurred Boundaries; Questions of Meaning in contemporary Culture’(Indiana University Press 1995) sets the context for ‘An exhibition […]
Last Friday saw the opening of Perfume as Practice AW17 – my solo show at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, which houses 20 perfume portraits and a series of paintings. The perfumes have been achieved through a process that begins by asking […]
If you are not a book artist or a collector of rare books, chances are that in your bookshelves there will be very little else than industrially bound books, with a spine at which a stack of pages is held […]
Artists including Julian Opie, Mark Wallinger, Tim Noble and Polly Morgan have donated work to the auction, with proceeds going to help support the family of the artist.
I spent a back-breaking day making test tiles in porcelain, earthenware and paperclay – then using different decorative tools and techniques on them. I have used the capillary method of applying slip and glaze to my maps and wold bowls […]
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including monochrome painting at the National Gallery, London, plus Susan Philipsz and other sound artists at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.
So while I have been talking with the current leaseholder about taking over the remaining years on their contract, the property owner has been in negotiations with another organisation about an entirely new contract. The potentially brilliant studio is looking […]
Alongside the 3d printed plates, I’ve been creating zinc plates with multiple deeply bitten levels to build the physical form of the holes. The laser cut stencils makes applying the mask much easier and creates an accurate shape. I’m using aquatint, […]
Ive been experimenting with 3d modelling from the clay casts, Multiple photographs from all angles were taken of the clay cast and imported into Autodesk Recap to create 3d models of the hole for printing. The cast immediately looked like […]
I’ve created this circular test plate to work out the depths to create between layers, and how to apply ink to the plate for printing. The test plate is printed at low quality with creates quite visible lines in the […]
In 2015 I worked on a series of prints and 3 dimensional drawings which were based on a single rock. I took casts from the rock using latex to create a series of plaster replicas which I could work directly […]
A piece I produced responding to the 1st underlined community arts project workshop: Vibrant, lively, fragmented at times, but finding connections in unexpected ways.. Over the past weeks, I have been reflecting on my own experience of facilitating the first underlined project workshop […]
