I have started doing some research and thanks Richard Taylor for the link to his video “Put your arm right down into it” . On gardens, I am collecting some key words and concepts, of which the below is a start: […]
Although Sumburgh Head might be considered remote, in the sense that it takes a long time to get here from mainland Britain, it most definitely is not isolated. I see more people here during the day than I see in […]
Hi, I know this is a stupid question and I have a feeling the answer is probably that I cant do it but I will ask anyway, but I will appreciate any help. I am starting out as a craft […]
I had a fascinating day yesterday. A Uni visit to the Sainsbury Centre – what a fantastic building by Norman Foster ! But to stay on the point…. we had a most informative session with Alex and Kimberley looking at […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Court rules Jeff Koons plagiarised French photographer for Naked sculpture, and street artist Plastic Jesus installs works across the US in response to Trump’s revised executive order on immigration.
Highlights from a-n’s busy Events section and this week including exhibitions in Bolton, Cheltenham, London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Taunton.
The soft gentle touch to the large-scale lips is particularly different to the dramatic black and roughly cut vagina dentata (vagina with teeth), yet in the same way they both cause a threat to castration, one with the threat of […]
I thought about posting at length about the weather – again – but I see that it is easy to become obsessed about it: last night the house was vibrating in the wind. Solid stone walls. Vibrating. Enough. Today was […]
This walk includes a performance by Jill Rock, inspired by the Epigraph to the Wasteland, ‘Sybil” A small intervention by Elspeth Penfold at the Nayland Rock Shelter.’Menstrual Discord’. Referencing Cecilia Vicuña’s ‘Quipu Menstrual’ With words by Judy Dermott accompanied by […]
The artist, who has been a central figure in contemporary art for more than 50 years, has died aged 84.
Last weekend I went to the New Forest, and took some photographs as the basis for creating abstract spaces in a brown / green spectrum resonant of my childhood memories. My work seems to be taking an auto biographical turn…………. […]
Flux and flow in the studio. Impending jury service means I’m in a hurry and so I’m putting the hours in whenever I can, and it’s so good to be making work again. Through all the surprising landscape work that’s […]
A new report from the London Assembly is calling for the Mayor of London to manage gentrification and protect the city’s cultural ecosystem from the effects of regeneration.
With a solo show at ICA and as part of a group exhibition at Eastside Projects, Sonia Boyce is exploring ideas around play, improvisation and sculpture – including a collaborative project with ukuele-playing skateboarders. Anneka French talks to the artist during the first of two lively, nerve-wracking performances in Birmingham, as skaters fly by and instruments are played.
