Week One at La Ceiba Gráfica has been about gathering equipment and materials to begin setting up my temporary screen print studio. And as I have been given a space on the beautiful new mezzanine overlooking the new ‘Taller de […]
Thanks for friends and tutors putting me in touch with some great people and everyone I meet generously offering further contacts, I’ve been lucky to visit ad meet printers from various walks of life. Starting with La Buena Estrella, an […]
One of those serendipitous moments while I was waiting to hear about possible dates for making a trip to learning about natural dyes and pigments here in Mexico, I’m just collecting my bag after going to an excellently curated show […]
So part of this project is gathering ideas from far away and exotic lands, but much of it is also about using what you have in a sustainable way that’s good for the planet… or better at least. So before […]
Invites sent out for Leila Houston’s Collaborative Sculpture as part of ACE funded project ‘Vulnerability in Austerity’ in Leicester
Frustratingly my perspex box frames arrived a day late meaning I didn’t have everything framed in time for the planned first day of hanging the show in the barn. So after lunch in the shade of a tree Louisa and I […]
Mark Devereux Projects work with artists to advance their respective practices and careers by providing high-quality, tailored professional development; they launched their intensive programme called StudioBook in 2015. This fabulous opportunity for early to mid-career artists, delivers seminars, workshops and […]
I am an artist seeking new directions and guidance, luckily I have been selected for StudioBook 2017…in hope of a new road to follow.
“Oh my god, John, the pain.” Unity Spencer is doubled up – her shock of silver hair is all I can see on my fly-out monitor as she slumps forward. I look around for John, her son, not knowing if […]
warm and sunny this morning through tall narrow french windows light and heat pour in lozenges of light ooze across the room the birds are vociferous like a number of rusty metal things needing oil it seems both extraordinary and […]
Exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and this week featuring projects in Bristol, Cley-next-the-Sea, Edinburgh, London and Rye.
On Wednesday I headed back over to Pieter De Raadtstraat to meet Guido inventor of the strange concoction of oranges in huge glass jars in the Stokerij window placed next to a washing machine. Guido lives and works at the […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international news, including: Proposals for Margaret Thatcher statue near parliament turned down, and China causes outrage by banning online content of homosexual relationships.
Exhibition at Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham
This is a blog to process my journey making a new work and fostering new connections within the field of experimental performance.
Curated by Charley Peters, Signal to Noise subtly reveals a multitude of relationships between the artists, which oscillate on a spectrum between collusion and tenuous connections.
Tuesday 4 July very warm and sunny only a small bit of state bread for breakfast so I walk to Grandfresnoy yesterday’s cycling left tender traces there and back takes about an hour I see 6 cars the shop has […]
A starfish, bryozoa, sea grass. Lines do not connect, graphite traces describe little of what was seen but leaves an impression on the slate. The physical act of holding steady and drawing, mostly without taking my eyes from the subject. […]
Lunch is a good time for meetings. I had been introduced to Melle Smets http://www.mellesmets.nl (he rents one the apartments in the building from SidM) at the Neverland Cinema so over lunch I chatted to him to find out more about his work. […]
£100,000 prize presented at ceremony in the Great Court at the British Museum, London, with each of the four other finalists receiving a £10,000 prize in recognition of their achievements.
a-n is inviting applications for its Writer Development Programme 2017-18, which will run from August 2017 to March 2018.
