I have recently been playing with an idea that I call Snapshot Painting. I don’t know if this term has been used before, I would have thought it would have been but I haven’t found any direct reference to it. […]
Precario Developing an artist led walk from the Dundas Gallery to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh in July. I have now started the process of preparing for a walk in Edinburgh using the poem by Cecilia Vicuña Thread and […]
Green thinks that “In The Sleeping Beauty, who awakens Aurora from her wretched curse and saves the day?” (2012, p.1) This drawing is called Save at Last and was completed with charcoal and pastel. It is from the end of […]
Montrie observes that “Tensions had to be high” (2003, p.1) The Battle is charcoal/pastel on paper and sets the scene for the part of the story when Robert Gold frights the evil witch. They fright with magic swords and their […]
Proposals by Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson have been selected as the next two commissions for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.
The Priest & The Getaway March 15, 2017 The Priest This painting is very similar to ‘The Confession’ as it is an image of the same subject from another angle. I like this image quite a lot, however it doesn’t […]
The renowned American dancer and choreographer, who collaborated with many visual artists included Robert Rauschenberg and Donald Judd, has died.
“For much of the feminist art that has been labelled ‘erotic’ because it depicts or alludes to genital images is nothing of the sort. It is designed to arouse women, but not sexually. Hannah Will, Deborah Remington and Judy Chicago […]
As part of my degree project I have been investigating the growth of wheat. In an earlier blog (Oct) I wrote about ploughing and farming as a metaphor for the seasons and life, a momento mori inspired by swaying barley […]
CIRCULAR READING 10am – 4pm 25th March 2017 Reading Room, Manchester Central Library “It is not one thought but all your thoughts” Supported by ACE, Manchester City Council, HOME and a-n
If there would exist only one camera in the world, who should own it? Have the freedom to “own” that one camera for the rest of your life. The following conversation with Johannes Maier took place as part of her […]
When reading about adoption there are certain words which are repeated by adoptees because they share similar emotions. This recent work includes just a few of these words. The work comprises of nine babygrows (representing nine months of pregnancy) and […]
Today is only the second time I have given up on a walk (if you don’t count the decision not to go to the end of the Ness of Burgi). There have been several days when I have decided to […]
Sarah Butterfield is one of the best representatives of the current revival of Contemporary Impressionism. Butterfield’s brushes encapsulates the way sunlight changes the patterns over the day by the second with the precision of a skilled surgeon. Her capacity to […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Actually I quite like rainy days. And Mondays. It wasn’t always that way though. I really like the way Facebook pops up “On this day…” every now and again. On a rainy day such as […]
Langhamer, C. (2013 ,p.63) “The emergence of the “pin-up” image offered new models of femininity.” This is a pastel drawing of the main female character Lacey. The lady is holding a rose. The figure is the focal point of the […]
engage has announced the 2017 edition of Children’s Art Week, a campaign to encourage and support children’s creativity.
The Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, which offers a £20,000 fellowship based at Baltic 39 in Newcastle upon Tyne as first prize, is open for applications from students currently in the final year of their undergraduate study.
This week’s selection of recommended shows includes Rodney Graham in Gateshead, the winner of the British Journal of Photography’s 2017 International Photography Award in London, and LA-based artist William E Jones in Glasgow.
