So, the film is online on Vimeo and I thought I’d publish my final text here as well. Encountering Place: Film and exhibition, Boldshaves Garden, Woodchurch, 15 & 16 July 2017. I was delighted to be invited as Artist in residence for […]
Hi there, I hope someone might be able to offer me a bit of advise regarding chilsdren’s book illustration. I’ve been approached by a lady who has writen a children’s book about autism and has interest from publishers, although […]
My favourite concept in the City of the Making was Christine and Sebastian’s house where they are breaking it down and re-building literally inside and out whilst they are living and working in it. Because of the SidM desire that […]
25 artists will contribute works to an online auction hosted by the art-buying website Artsy.
Newcastle University fine art graduate Joy Labinjo has won the £20,000 Woon Art Prize while University of Brighton graduate Oriele Steiner has been announced as the recipient of New Contemporaries’ studio bursary with The Royal Standard and Bluecoat in Liverpool.
Michael Armitage’s vivid and dreamlike paintings are currently on show in his solo exhibition ‘Peace Coma’ at Turner Contemporary in Margate. The Kenyan-born but London-based artist talked to Fisun Güner about how his East African heritage has influenced his work, along with his interest in Western art history and the works of post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin in particular.
hot so monday morning and action! cycle to leclerc look at stuff fabric, nails staple guns strange wallpapers suggestive construction stuff hoover bags for H spend an hour wondering around looking, touching thinking and get some rather sumptuous but smooth […]
warm and sunny a dragging kind of day sitting around thinking rising tension is arranging stuff enough? appropriating discarded bric-a-brac is nothing new Martin Creed comes to mind chairs piled up cacti arranged in height order different sized balls harking […]
Porthole — Tuesday 18th July 2017 Rickmansworth – Grand Union Canal – chalk marker pen on glass
I’m still watching the sea, waiting for the tide to turn and retreat from the beach so I can watch the beach. Noticing how it effects it’s immediate environment, the activity as it changes, I go out looking for drawings. Lines […]
A staggering 8 years after the last post on this blog, I wondered whether what I was writing in 2008/2009 is still relevant today. Essentially I was asking: Where do we stand, as artists, within the UK economy? How do we relate […]
This year, I have begun writing as well as drawing, bearing witness to the activity on site. So from now on, alongside drawings and paintings, I will be posting written observations rather than journal entries. Wind and rain. Have to […]
i’m several weeks into the filming of the second iteration and i feel i’ve not shared with you how my process and journey has been …. so in the style of a recap …. previously in the process … […]
We planned to start our collaboration by exploring the metaphorical space of the garden. Its meaning and its materials. Not defining the outcome, meandering, letting the garden take us to unexpected places. We want to see what, if anything takes […]
I am fortunate to be one of the twelve participating artists for StudioBook2017 mentoring programme and grateful to a-n.co.uk for the support. My reflection on my experience during the programme will be shared on this blog.
I need to start at the beginning…
My first big Contemporary Art Cross-stitch project began late in 2014. I applied for and was awarded funding for the project, which involved free Contemporary Art Cross-stitch workshops, a participatory project, and the undertaking of my own large scale piece […]
The Festival weekend has been and gone! Truly exhausting. A big thank you to Laura and Andrew Wilan, the Festival Directors, for their support. It must have been slightly unsettling at times for all involved not knowing what I was going […]
Last week I talked about common initial reactions to my work, this week I thought I’d bring to light another preconception I have to contend with – which is that scent in art is gimmicky. While I think that can certainly […]
Creative Freelancers report published as part of a new initiative to transform the working lives of the freelance workers.
diary entries documenting my encounters at the opening days of documenta14.
As one might expect, I have recently been spending a lot of time on websites selling surveillance equipment. About a year ago, I decided to stop using any kind of ad blocking or ant-tracking software on my laptop, as I thought […]
I’m writing this on the train. Life seems to have got so busy I haven’t written the blog for a while and its now a year and a month since I started my artist’s residency in motherhood. I haven’t really […]
