Tela Films have made a short film of the exhibition at The Ceramic House showing the breadth and diversity of the remarkable works by 15 Korean ceramists currently on display. Three weeks have flown by, one weekend to go! If […]
Where are we now? Our Hack & Host a.n “Artist-led Group Bursary” funded project kicked off on Friday 12th May. The intention of the project, titled “Thrash Out: Artists as Political Activists” is to explore the notion of the artist […]
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including drawing in London, painting and print in Glasgow, and video in Edinburgh.
As with so many things it can be easier to start with what coaching isn’t and put it into context with other learning activities. Coaching isn’t teaching but is a learning experience. In teaching, the teacher, tutor, lecturer is seen […]
Over the coming month, a team of a-n members will taking over a-n’s Instagram to post images and commentary from degree shows around the country. We meet the artists and find out which shows they will be posting from.
The relatively new Dover Studio Collective is organising its third open studio and exhibition with invited guest artists. As a format, it is working really well and helps get the venue known and stretches us all as artists, and because […]
I wanted to see the garden in the evening light and Laura also wanted a catch up so this came together last Saturday. I had asked Laura if there was a potting shed in which I could project the film and to […]
I wanted to look at how different sounds can fill the space I have for the degree show. I was surprised at the strength of the gramophone sound considering there are no speakers or digitally enhanced sound. The records are […]
I needed to be able to make a loop of film so that it would play continuously. I had bought a couple of splicers from the internet so I started to splice one of the found footage films into a […]
Our plan for Saturday was to go up to the adits and do some recording. Meeting Lee in the Stiwdio Maelor kitchen, he pointed out it was raining and taking recording equipment out in the rain was not a good […]
The space in which I will stage my degree show exhibition was handed over on Thursday, and so I now have a week to setup my degree show. I’ve cleaned the doors and floor, painted the walls and the ceiling […]
Our first job today was to go into Aberystwyth and pick up the equipment we needed from the School of Art. They had nearly everything we needed, so we took it down to my studio and Lee explained each piece. […]
Narrative from the RD1st coaching accreditation programme 2017, course fees funded and attendance gratefully supported by a bursary from a-n, The Artists Information Company…
A few weeks ago I had a surprise walk with Jonathan Skinner, professor of eco poetry at Warwick University. Jonathan also happens to be a friend of Cecilia Vicuña’s which is another project I am working on #ThreadandWord. Jonathan took […]
I wanted to use my Prinz projector to project the Super 8mm film but to do this I would need to put the film on a loop. In an exhibition by Sandra Gibson and Louis Recoder they had looped the […]
The first film I had used in the Chinon Cine camera was not going to be easy to get developed and would need a further process to enable me to run it on the projector. As I did not have […]
I was just re-reading my blog entry and looking at those images which I’ve been thinking about printing. I suddenly realised what has been the subliminal influence underpinning the way I want to make those images look. Here again is one […]
