I have started taking photographs of the two drawings I produced the other day. I am still working out how to use certain features on the camera and had trouble getting the image on the drawing in to focus. So […]
I have started taking photographs of the two drawings I produced the other day. I am still working out how to use certain features on the camera and had trouble getting the image on the drawing in to focus. So […]
Today I completed a few more drawings for the film, one is of the magic coming and taking over the town. The other is of the school children running away as the fog closes in on them. I am quite […]
Clore Visual Artist Fellow Maurice Carlin is taking over the a-n Instagram for the next two weeks as he travels to China and India to explore the markets and infrastructures of two very distinct art ecologies.
Tate Britain’s biggest-ever David Hockney retrospective features bite-sized chunks of each phase of the Yorkshire painter’s expansive output. Fisun Güner finds the fastest-selling show in Tate’s history topped and tailed by brilliant, keenly observed work, but short on surprises.
This was my first experience of having a piece of work in a proper exhibition, which was held at the High Street / Museum exhibition-space in Ipswich. I learned quite a lot through this experience, as I had to put […]
A few weeks have passed now since completing the making of ‘I Always Wanted To Be …’ I became totally engrossed in the film making process and it’s taken me a while to stop feeling completely consumed with thoughts […]
Graft is an exhibition at PS Mirabel, Manchester of new work from artists Holly Rowan Hesson and Rowan Eastwood exploring and expanding their shared interests in materials, intuitive process and responding to site. Preview Thursday 23 Feb 6-9pm, then open […]
How to deal with the political emergency in the so-called United States of America? I’m working on a funding proposal which means I’m online a LOT. Application is online, I also need to liaise with my collaborator – and then […]
I have been looking at etchings on the Tate website and soon found myself engrossed in Peter Doig’s first print portfolio, which includes Red House. The way he uses trees to interrupt interests me and the silhouetted figures are at […]
It might seem a little odd to say, in the middle of a print residency, but, . . well here goes, It feels like painting. These latest pieces are part of a layered series called ‘Reportage’ and are A4 size. […]
I got a call from my brother to say that our mother was in hospital neat Luton, and not too well. She is 94 now, and with pneumonia having had a hip replacement, a long away from the sea, me […]
This week I have been producing more drawings, so that I can take photographs of them with the Copy Can so that I can see were improvements need to be made before I start shooting for the final film. Over […]
As a-n launches its dedicated coaching accreditation programme for the visual arts, Pippa Koszerek speaks to the four artists who tested the waters in 2016.
I am really looking forward to this walk on February 23rd. Please let me know if you’re interested in joining either in London or in Kent or both. Terminalia Festival of Psychogeography http://terminaliafestival.org Exploring Boundaries and Monuments. Terminalia Festival […]
This week’s selection includes a group show in Gateshead exploring the journeys taken by migrants and refugees to cross the Mediterranean Sea, a playful take on curating in Manchester, and the beginning of Bluecoat’s 300-day tercentenary programme in Liverpool.
LS Lowry, The Reference Library (now Manchester Central Library), undated
