This Federation ‘blueprint’ presents policy recommendations and practical ideas for creating economic growth across the whole country.
The concept of painting is one that has always eluded me, I’ve tried to make it work without much success over the years. Ask me to paint something and my mind goes blank. I don’t draw things! I’m now starting on a journey to tackle this ‘demon’
At just after 8.00 this morning I signed a contract on a studio that Klas and I are going to share. The space is a former garage, and has most recently been the clubhouse for a motorbike club! It needs […]
Musings on art, music, audience and re-working the past
The controversy over the Dana Schutz painting, Open Casket, has prompted protests, a call for the work to be destroyed and much anger and debate. Chris Sharratt reports.
An artist who I have been inspired by recently in my practice is Bob and Roberta Smith. The piece I did which I was most influenced by Bob and Roberta Smith was the piece I featured in my last […]
This week’s selection of events, taken from a-n’s busy Events section and posted by members, includes exhibitions in Aberdeen, Dartford, Torquay, and London.
This week I got the delightful news that I will be having a show in a small public gallery in Lincolnshire in 2019. I will be producing a body of work directly related to place and lost memories. This is […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Tate St Ives reopens following £20 million refurbishment and Beijing artists’ studios demolished.
I have made a collection of 3D figures that explore and question some of the many roles women fulfil throughout our lives. Working with fabric and stitches I have sought to construct life-size figures that retain the vulnerability of the […]
I don’t know if it’s just the time of year but I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the direction of my practice and how my concerns have both evolved and clarified into some conceptual ideas that will impact on my ways of working.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I know that as I am typing this at 4:30 am that there will be someone else I know, doing something similar. Someone mentioned my “insomnia problem” the other day. I don’t know that it […]
Exploring the relationship between painting movements and the direction of travel.
Trying to stay ahead of the degree game really helps minimise my anxiety. I always promised myself, that if I ever returned to education I would try not to make the same mistakes I made when I was younger. […]
Perhaps due to being a fifty-seven year old student undertaking a degree in fine-art, making a blog seemed quite an alien idea to me. I have a smart phone, several email addresses and go on Facebook; this I felt, was […]
Yesterday I did the third or forth layer of coloured paint onto my sculpture, it now has eyebrows. However, I’m not sure I like the matt toning, created by the acrylic. I think I may purchase a gloss, or even a […]
It’s all about the development of a self-financed body of photographic work called ‘DILLIGAF’. The project began in 2005 and, in terms of image creation, was completed in 2016, but now needs a big push to begin transforming the material into […]
… a last look around Lerwick. Travelling by ferry is very civilised. For the 7p.m. sailing, foot passengers check in at any time from 5. Just right for a last cup of coffee and a wander up and down […]
Blog charting progress with a photobook project, generously supported by a 2017 Professional Development Bursary
Put Me In A Corner This image is taken from the web site for the Royal Academy for the Arts summer exhibition 2017. The summer exhibition has been taking place every year since 1769. It is always hung in this […]
Revisiting ideas from a long period of research, I’m beginning at The Beginning, in fact at the very beginnings of life. In his book, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins theorises about the origins of life, when, in the primeval soup […]
