I have a long-established interest in non–places & transitional zones which include motorway services, airports & business parks. My local research point is Europarc & its surrounding environs. The site is a short drive from my rural village home in Northern Lincolnshire.
Spent the morning at the Photographer’s Gallery with Heinz from Impossible learning how to do a Polaroid emulsion lift. This is the process we went through: Use a craft knife (X-ACTO etc) to cut along the back and bottom of […]
A new work, R&D for a larger project From Wasteland To Wasteland exploring the Somme and TS Eliot’s the Waste Land
For a couple of years I’ve had this thing hanging about in my studio. It’s a paper construction made out of hundreds of small tubes of rolled up brown paper gummed strip ( I like low-tech materials). They are glued […]
I find myself in the parks this week; absorbing, looking. Park Montsouris, opposite the apartment where I am staying in the south of Paris, was built by Napoleon III and Baron Haussman and opened in 1869, it was designed in […]
Highlights from a-n’s busy Events section and this week including exhibitions online and in London, Pembrokeshire and Tucson, Arizona.
On Wednesday July 19th at 8.15 pm “Sound Scape” will be performed in The Devonshire Dome in Buxton, part of the Buxton Fringe Festival which runs with the Buxton International Festival. The Dome is massive, the acoustics are very interesting […]
Eleven students of Art from West Kent college FdAD display final work from year two of their course. A broad range of ideas and themes are embodied by materials and techniques. From Louise Draper’s Trade(2017) ‘celebrating the geek-art subculture, to […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Italian court ruling ousts five top museum directors.
a-n members Bob Gelsthorpe and Jacki Cairns have visited degree shows in Swansea, Lincoln, Hertfordshire and Cardiff for the first of our Instagram takeovers of the 2017 degree shows season.
Art as Transformer is an exploration into the relationships between painting and photography and the effects photography has upon the ways we interpret the world around us. The increase of mobile digital photography over the last 17 years has given […]
Morgan Quaintance’ documentary explores Cubitt studios, Cubitt gallery and Cubitt education, taking a look at the history and present of the London-based organisation, its previous curators, artists and others who have been involved, as well as glimpsing into its possible future.
A data-set produced by the National Campaign for the Arts examining funding and other factors relating to the “health” of the arts in England.
