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Christian Boltanski (born 1944) is a French sculptor, photographer, painter and filmmaker, most notable for his photography installations and contemporary French Conceptual style. Boltanski’s work is largely inspired by the holocaust, something that greatly affected his family and went on […]

One piece I created was called Stolen Journey (Fig 1). For this piece I was given an old book. I wanted it to be hardback and look used to show an aged story. It just so happened that the perfect […]

During my second year I was working from old family photographs. I am a very sentimental person and along with my love of photography and photos, family memorabilia is very special to me. I have always found my best work […]

I was selected for the Wales Arts Review residency for the month of March 2017. My project for this residency was on the subject of Amy Dillwyn with a focus on her-story (history) and gender. Before and during this time […]

Culture   My father used to say to me, “lucky your pretty with your Dyslexia, at least you can be a glamour model, no need for brains in that game”. It seemed evident very early on that I would be […]

Rachel Bailey is an artist I’ve got to know through the artist peer mentoring group over the course of the past 2 years (she was one of our original members). As artists, we have shared a common preoccupation with themes […]

Just as realised that it was almost time to ‘close’ yesterday my phone rang. It was Eva, who I first met when I visited her studio during last year’s Vår konst, she apologised for being late and wanted to know […]

What I liked about the pace of visitors on Friday was that I was able to spend time with each of them. There was only one occasion when two groups overlapped. With the kind of work that I make, and […]

One of the fantastic things about receiving my professional development bursary from a-n is that I can now try making a Grant for the Arts application and use my bursary as the match funding I’ll need to support the application. So here […]

Science is not all about facts. This much I knew before meeting my partners from the scientific community. But now, having met with my new colleagues I’m much more aware of the many affinities between research-based contemporary sonic art and scientific […]

Deciding to participate in the town’s Easter Open Studio weekend has been interesting – and it is only the first of the four days that I am ‘open’. I spent the last week installing my own work throughout my apartment. […]

SO, something happened. I have asked Arts Council England to support me in creating a document to outline my needs in the workplace. They just said yes! This piece of paper (or more likely powerpoint, video, series of poems, and […]

Last time, I mentioned the importance of having the blog to share ideas and to strike up dialogues with other artists about things I’m working on. However, I must also highlight how helpful it has been to receive peer mentorship […]

Myself and Artist Rachel Ramchurn have been discovering the delights of collaborating, although we may both agree the writing of funding bids falls into the ‘not so delightful’ area. The ‘A Pocketful of Treasures’ event we ran on the Fallowfield […]