So these past few weeks have all been about the ‘Hidden Altrincham’ which is an art festival near Manchester in…erm…Altrincham. It has been a well organised event with lots of different and exciting creative types kicking about. I personally have […]
Here is the original archetype painting for those of you who missed it the first time,,,enjoy
As Stoke-on-Trent welcomes the British Ceramics Biennial, artist, writer and AirSpace Gallery associate Selina Oakes provides an introduction to the polycentric city’s art scene.
This blog will be documenting my time during the Graduate Residency within AirSpace Gallery.
Last week I had a holiday along the North Yorkshire Coast, taking in Whitby, Staithes and Robin Hood’s Bay. I didn’t get any work done but, as is the way with these things, I did draw in a little inspiration […]
The visual arts commissioning agency has written the letter to Arts Council England chair Sir Nicholas Serota saying its confirmed programme is in jeopardy after its removal from ACE’s national portfolio.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including a survey of Rachel Whiteread’s career to date at Tate Britain, one of Antony Gormley’s Another Time sculptures at Turner Contemporary in Margate, and an examination of US cultural symbolism by photographer Alexander Missen in Leigh-on-Sea.
Katriona Beales’ ‘Are We All Addicts Now?’ exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery is part of a cross-disciplinary investigation into the lure of digital technology which she instigated three years ago. Lydia Ashman talks to the artist and her collaborators, which include the clinical psychiatrist and addiction expert Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones.
I can guarantee in every interview I do for press or radio or TV or in every talk I do for any audience, someone is going to ask “where did the idea come from?”. It’s a fair enough question. Most […]
Finally after a calling, which for the past 4 years have made itself particularly heard, I made it to the desert only to find that it is a lifelong journey as opposed to a short visit. For this first visit, […]
Finishing my MA Fine Art means I can get back to documenting my work using electroforming as a tool in sculptural work. I’ve been refining some of the resist techniques I developed and expanded the range of materials that work […]
I visited the Museum of Iranian Dolls and Culture twice. Here beautifully adorned life size dolls are dressed in the local tradition dress of each city of Iran. Women are invited from these parts to hand make these items of […]
The longest street of Middle East cuts straight through Tehran from the North to the South. Its name is Vali Asr and it took 6 hrs to walk. With the camera hung around my neck I took some images at […]
I have always dreamt about visiting the Amazon Rainforest, and the idea of having an opportunity for artistic engagement with such landscape had a dream like quality. For quite a while, I have been interested in the indigenous knowledges and […]
The Yezdi people are a small ethnic and religious minority and historically misunderstood group. There are only 700,000 Yezidis in the world, and the vast majority of these live in Iraq. The Yezidi religion is 6,000 years old and they […]
Trying to squeeze some time for the project. I have to admit its not that easy at the moment. Still, I need to keep on going…Below are some samples of work. Pencil on the cel protection paper (!). There no […]
the last part of the interviewing process took place over a month ago. Below are the lovely people who agreed to take part.
