Current exhibition exploring the theme The Sublime and the Wondrous Works on canvas, watercolours and photography featur in this exhibition.http://www.aligracie.org/exhibitions-gallery/album/the-sublime-and-the-wondrous
A country-wide snapshot shows men remain more likely to work in senior roles, and half of BME arts workers feel their ethnicity is a barrier to success. Arts Professional’s Christy Romer reports.
Current exhibition featuring nature photography at http://www.aligracie.org/exhibitions-gallery/album/summer-nature-photography-exhibition-by-alison-gracie
Sarah Bodman previews new book works by Déirdre Kelly and Rosie Sherwood that explore our experience of place through the use of collage and mapping.
With its longstanding city-centre home about to undergo redevelopment, Rogue studio group has relocated to a former primary school building in the east of the city.
In Trench T they are uncovering an Iron Age wall around a structure, which is built over, and through, the Neolithic. There must be many reasons why they chose to reuse the site, but perhaps one was that it commands […]
For the last few days I’ve been drawn out into the August autumn that has shrouded the south coast, searching for mist. The view through the window suggests mist, yet when I reach the sea it is gone. A chill […]
Notes from a month long residency about the challenge to rediscover figuration after a year of non objective painting
Through an established process of asking artists ‘Why do you make art?’ then using the response received to inform the use of fragrances, I have been making ‘perfume portraits’ of other artists for over 2 years, amassing 40 perfumes so […]
The members of the Committee, including the artist Chuck Close, have resigned en masse in a letter that condemns Donald Trump’s support of “hate groups and terrorists”.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week, including: Sheela Gowda in Birmingham, Kate Davis in Edinburgh and Tate Modern’s ‘gut-punch of an exhibition’ documenting art in the age of Black Power.
Open Day on site – so I used the need to stay in the Art Hut, to be available for visitors, as an opportunity to play with my collection of stones – now trying a Neolithic version of oil paint […]
An artists response to the interesting and scary times we are all living through
Oooooooooooooooooooo, it’s getting nearer. The daughter leaving home thing. About 3 weeks to go. Don’t really want to think about the exact time left to get everything sorted. At the moment I’m having an epic battle of my own, with […]
Professional development is a constant process when you’re an artist. I’m sure most artists work is as much practice as practise – in that constant drive to push your boundaries and strive for the intangible thing that constantly motivates you. […]
A Project for the Fifth Sized Book Adventure
I will visit Iran for the first time as an adult and artist following an AN- travel grant.
I was recently awarded a project grant by Arts Council England, to undertake a case study of my practice as an autistic arts professional, in order to design a series of access measures – which may also be of benefit […]
(These images feature an improvised art ‘ofrenda’ to Heather Heyer victim of a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville USA, August, 2017. The tribute was made for Heather but also bears the hallmarks of an ongoing practice.) My last blog post featured […]
August 18, 2017 There are no words for the atrocity which has taken place on the Ramblas in Barcelona. Yet I persist. I need to try. I watched the horror unfold on my laptop. It had been a gruelling day. […]
Yesterday, a second quick painting of an archaeologist in the trench. At last I am beginning to paint with the same direct approach that I have for drawing. A shame the dig ends next week, just as I’m getting […]
