The first of the workshops I attended thanks to my a•n professional development funding was a two-day deluxe printmaking workshop at Print Club London on 27/28 April. Professionally and entertainingly led by artist/printmaker Craig Keenan, this was an intensive, yet relaxed, […]
Artists Walker & Bromwich have created a new installation at the National Trust property near Bangor which, along with a community engagement project and video featuring archival footage and song, presents the history of The Great Strike of Penrhyn in the early 1900s and explores its contemporary resonance.
Re excavation. Revisiting an eight year old trench. Yesterday they excavated the black plastic. Today brushing, weeding and gentle spade work, dragging off earth settled on top of previously exposed stone. Like working with a big trowel. Not on their […]
First Week of StudioBook 2017 The first week of Mark Devereux Projects’ StudioBook 2017 surpassed my expectations. I arrived in Manchester on Sunday night at Islington Mill, the incredible space that I and two other StudioBook artists are staying […]
wet wet wet cycle to the shop in the soft rain cycle really slowly looking hard at the fields woods and sky it’s very quiet still and steady too dingy and dark to take photographs too wet to do much […]
cool wet and dreary a slow morning with lots of tea but eventually get out and about cycle round the villages stopping to photograph the sucrerie where they do processing stuff to the sugar beet that grows in all the […]
Following on from my visit to the archives last week I have been spending time in my studio looking through the Admissions and Discharge Book for Dane John VAD Hospital. The book records 101 wounded men from 1916 -1918 and […]
I spent a week in the studio at the De La Warr pavilion about 18 months ago. A whole 7 days. It was to be a heavenly chance to explore my return to Bexhill on Sea after a year of […]
A new exhibition opens at Inverleith House later this week as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, nine months after the gallery closed amid protests from artists and curators. We preview the show and highlight some of the exhibitions, commissions and events included in the festival programme.
Porthole — Tuesday 25th July 2017 Rickmansworth – Grand Union Canal – chalk marker pen on glass
A walk in July A collaborative walk on July 12th with the Garden Gate Community Project and Walking with The Waste Land in Cliftonville, Margate. A photo diary of a series of walks which we began in April. this […]
Something orange showing in the mud – a piece of oxidised pottery. Another piece slowly appears as the trowel gently scrapes away the earth crumb by crumb. Trying to draw the undulating stones like wafers, which I wrote about on […]
cool + dull the day of the presentation feeling a little jumpy spend some time with H working out who is speaking and in which language then set up in the upper barn where it’s cool and super calm at […]
cloudy and warm there is much activity this morning a kind of spring cleaning of the chateau is underway ready for guests who arrive later in the day in the barn am interviewed in french … a bit of a […]
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A collaboration between the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, the Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park has received investment from Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence programme.
As a practitioner of ‘Perfume Portraiture’ for over two years it’s only natural to find myself deviating away from the central premise in order to expand my knowledge, perception and appreciation of fragrance and the possibilities therein. And so, while […]
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including an invitation to break the traditional rules of a gallery space in Liverpool, an exhibition of drawings in Leeds and a multimedia installation in London.
Hi there, I want to exhibit at (and hopefully sell through) an art show in the USA. Can anybody advise me on what kind of visa I should obtain for this? I ask as US guidance seems a bit opaque […]
Continued with my interviews in Glasgow’s East End. Met some really interesting people and got some great recordings with the help of my friend Beverly. Above is Victoria and Craig from the wee funky vintage shop near Saltmarket. Below is […]
