I need to think about…
I have been working on more drawings for my painting, I am still not sure where all the animals are going to go but i have a few ideas on where to put some. The parrot and the peacock I’ve […]
I have been working on more drawings for my painting, I am still not sure where all the animals are going to go but i have a few ideas on where to put some. The parrot and the peacock I’ve […]
Drawing made after a recent visit to the Robert Rauschenberg exhibition at Tate Modern and linking this to the UK’s formal withdrawal from the EU.
a-n’s touring programme of workshops, talks and get-togethers begins in early May with Assembly Margate, devised in collaboration with Margate-based social artist Dan Thompson. Stephen Palmer reports.
I thought I would make a post about the materials I use within my work and why. DRAWINGS: I use coloured pencils on A4 paper. The coloured pencils I use are by Faber Castell as they blend well together and […]
Inhabiting, dwelling with objects, exploring how these objects can bridge the perceived gap between ourselves and the world around us.
An artist who I have briefly looked into in my studio practice is Rauschenberg, particularly his pieces made from cardboard. I decided to look at his wall structures made from cardboard when I began to collect and work onto pizza […]
In an earlier post (post 5) I briefly talked about wanting to create the feeling of awe that we feel when we look upon nature’s beauty. Personally for me the natural world blows me away, from caves and senotes to […]
John Dilnot has been creating his hand-produced books since 1985 and his work features in the collections of the V&A, Tate, MoMA, and more. As a touring exhibition exploring his practice opens in Northern Ireland, Sarah Bodman provides a snapshot of his many publications.
EMOTIONS THROUGH COLOUR Last year in level 5, my theme was my emotion’s through color, I produced a mind map to link up the various emotions. I researched the color’s associated with the various emotion’s and symbolism that was […]
The pioneer of pop art, known for his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial imagery, died on Friday in New York City.
‘Keeping It Moving’ the blog I wrote while making the short film with Henrietta Thomas, was very much about recording the process & final outcome of a specific piece of work. It was created for the sole purpose of documenting […]
From the very start of my blog prostitution and porn have been big aspects in my research as well as using myself. Another important aspect is the interpretation of the viewer and leaving aspects to their imagination. The lips were chosen […]
sometime around the end of last year a friend contacted me and asked if i could meet up with her and a friend who was embarking on a film project. i of course said yes and duly met up, shared […]
I attended the artist Alex Pearl’s workshop. We were each given the brief that we were robots and given set parameters in which we could make a film. The length of the film clips were to be no longer than […]
Colour The investigation of colour began with my screen prints, where I was investigating using the transparent coloured inks to show the colours underneath. Unfortunately due to the transparency of the inks this meant that the colours were dulled down […]
Welsh poetry has a system of rhymes, alliterations and counter-stresses called cynghanedd (being 1000 years older than English, there are strong roots beneath that rubble strewn ground). Despite being a bit of a mathematical formula, and fairly easy to follow, […]
Collected blogs and resources on the a-n site on artists’ residencies. See also my commissioned essay Residencies: practices and paradoxes
(This is what I wrote, originally, as my introductory blurb … but it was too long, so I’ve shunted it here, with a few amendments). Architecture tends to draw its practitioners into a narrowly focussed view of the world based on […]
Lust for Life Release date: 17th September, 1956 Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Over my summer break, I have took an interest in watching this film, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Irving Stone (1903-1989), and it focuses on […]
Carsten Höller is an artist that keeps popping up in my thinking and in my tutorials and for good reason. An artist who “often creates experiments in which human participants are subject to behavioural situations.” (Bishop, 2006, p144) one of […]
Sophrosune “Error would be removed from human life, because each person would do only what they knew and would leave what they did not know to that which did” (Donald Watt) The piece of work I am currently engaged with, […]
I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; yet when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence […]