A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Creative Time director steps down and property manager and creative director of Oakland’s Ghost Ship artist residence charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Does anyone know what the benchmark is for renting creative studio/work space in Brighton & Hove? My research so far has ranged from people paying £69 per month to £330 per month for around 100 sqft. I’d love to set up […]
Theresa May’s snap election gamble has spectacularly failed with the Tories now without a majority in parliament – and artists have been responding to the election result.
How things map out is so often purely coincidental. Here I am, sitting at a farmhouse table an hour’s travel outside Saskatoon, a place I had never even heard of. The sun is hot, a gentle breeze and the ticks […]
It’s always the worst Artists who want bigger subs…
Welcome to Off the Shelf, a blog charting the activities I’m undertaking during the period of my a-n Professional Development Bursary. Before I set the context, firstly; an apology. While I have only just set up this blog, I have been […]
A description of a short course I attended with the potter Tanya Gomez at West Dean College with the support of a Professional Development Bursary from a-n, The Artist Information Company
(Originally posted on http://leilahoustonart.weebly.com/blog 8 May 2017) Aby Mackie’s artwork Image credit Leila Houston I met Aby Mackie in her apartment in Poblenou with her two young children, full of music and fascinating collected treasures. The windows in the apartment opened […]
(Originally posted April 2017)
A blog charting research/activities undertaken during the period of my a-n Professional Development Bursary.
Artists Maeve Brennan and Imran Perretta are recipients of the fifth edition of the Jerwood/FVU Awards, providing them with funding to develop new moving-image works.
So, I finally have a title for the project…. Encountering Place. Having been a nomad much of my life, the idea of a sense of place, which the Festival is built around, is a bit alien to me. I’ve never felt really local […]
An Arts Council England project called The Melodramatic Elephant in the Haunted Castle exploring the history of the Coronet theatre, 1872-2017.
I am encouraged by the award of a 2017 a-n Professional Development Bursary to continue work around the concept of displacement, which has been of particular interest in my practice for some years. I will be able to look for […]
I should definitely do more blogging. I find it hard to keep it up sometimes when I’m busy, but when I do get into the routine of doing it regularly, I find it really invaluable to be able to pop […]
1oth May On the evening of the 10th we all went to the Diaspora Pavilion exhibition and launch-party at Palazzo Pisani. The works comprising of sculpture, wall drawing, sound, video, painting and installations assailed all the senses. The nineteen artists did […]
