Research Many of the techniques used by both Maxwell and Gorskii are no longer available to us. According to the archives at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C (where Gorskii’s work is held), there is no known replica or illustration […]
2015 marks the centennial of a key moment in the life of another giant in the field of Colour Photography: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. In 1909 Gorskii was commissioned by Tsar Nicolas II to document the sprawling Russian Empire, which then […]
James Clerk Maxwell 156 years ago, in 1861, Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell presented the world with the first ever colour photograph. Standing in the slipstream of the Scottish Enlightenment, Maxwell demonstrated the revolutionary theory that the human eye could […]
Highlights for the week ahead with exhibitions and events in London, Margate, Swansea and Newcastle upon Tyne, all selected from a-n’s Events section.
Porthole — We murder — Friday 11th August 2017 Uxbridge – Grand Union Canal – chalk marker pen on glass
James Clerk Maxwell and Prokudin-Gorskii in the Twenty-First Century
There are some pieces of stone which have been uncovered and now the parts with iron layers are rusting. They are difficult to draw and paint because I’m not interested in just rocks and prefer people. My project is about […]
Over the last two years I have been visiting various jazz bars in Birmingham, including COGS bar, and sketching the musicians and dancing to the live bands. I consequently started a small group activity ‘Sketching to Jazz’ in my studio […]
A new report by François Matarasso has been published on the impact of a week-long pilot lab that offered six early career artists, aged 50 and over, time to explore how creativity can be nourished and how artists can challenge themselves to develop.
Writer and researcher François Matarasso reports on the impact of a week-long pilot lab that offered six early career artists, aged over 50, time to explore how creativity can be nourished and how artists can challenge themselves to develop.
