Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and this week taking us to Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Wales.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Pieter Brueghel the Younger painting is authenticated and new cultural plan for New York City faces objections from artists.
This drawing is from 2009. It’s called: “What wouldn’t I give grow old in a place like that…” (the title comes from a line spoken by one of the characters in the 1940s Powell and Pressburger film A Canterbury Tale). The […]
More than 200 artists, musicians, writers and art professionals including Anish Kapoor, Yinka Shonibare, Mark Titchner and Iwona Blazwick have pledged to take part in exhibitions and art projects around the world confronting the rise of right wing populism in the US, Europe and elsewhere.
Now in its fifth year, for 2017 the New Art West Midlands exhibition welcomes recent graduates from Hereford College of Arts alongside those from Birmingham City University, University of Wolverhampton, University of Worcester, Staffordshire University, and Coventry University.
Well here it is. Work for the final series of prints for the exhibition. . . . Well the stencils anyway, which ever way you look at it. They are the work, though not the works. Yes poor puns. […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The last few years as an artist have provided little signposts and milestones along the way. Small moments of clarity or change that have propelled me to the next level, next challenge… I remember when […]
10 a-n Artist members have been awarded bursaries to attend the preview of Venice Biennale 2017 in May, and a further 13 members will travel to Kassel, Germany, in June to attend the press and professionals preview of Documenta 14.
The British Art Show 8 touring exhibition was popular in Leeds, Edinburgh, Norwich and Southampton, receiving large visitor numbers.
I entered my studio today and find an unfamiliar smell, which i discover comes from a baby beaker full of off milk. I vaguely recall bringing it in last week. It’s been another week of illness with Abie up most […]
I am now planning the story and I am thinking about how it will begin. The lady has just moved in to the small town, and quite by chance they see each other from across the street. They stop and […]
Blue Paintings & Unwanted Detail In these paintings I found that mixing colour is the part that takes the longest, and by applying many colours the painting takes far longer to complete. When analyzing the choice of subject I […]
For her current show at The Showroom, London-based artist Laura Oldfield Ford has constructed a disorientating visual, textual and sonic journey that draws on her experiences of navigating the gallery’s surrounding area, weaving together multiple voices and alternative histories and futures. Lydia Ashman finds out more.
My third short film draws from an artist statement I wrote that makes reference to Kandinsky’s ideas of the spiritual in art and how this has influenced developments in my own work. The film’s title is taken from a phrase […]
New work from my Exeter studio.
2013-2014, quite a stressful year (both personally and professionally) where I discovered a certain catharsis to drawing. These drawings began as improvised reinterpretations of my dual compositions with visual influences coming from the Yin Yang symbol, Jungian archetypes, Surrealism and […]
Inspired by earlier Street Bits. Below is a day I spent walking in Bristol where I left 24 paintings on cardboard and plywood around various parts of the city.
I walked the estuary trail from Exeter to Exmouth (approx. 10 miles) leaving 101 paintings along the way. Below is a selection of images from my journey.
I exhibited 4 prints at Galerie Metanoia, Paris where I received a GreatArt award on the opening night.
I read the following blog post http://exploringtheheartofit.weebly.com/blog/artists-as-hoarders and immediately felt like I’d met some long lost distant relatives.Of course not all people who create also hoard. But I do. I seem to have inherited this from my dads side of […]
