AUDIOBLOG – Please click here To the casual onlooker it is a fairly ordinary looking chair. It has a story though, like any object that has hung around for a while. This ordinary looking chair sits in our hall and […]
For some strange reason my balls had come alive to me, maybe it was because they could be rolled down slopes and would seem to move on their own, as if they were independent autonomous beings. One of the spherical […]
It was only after finishing my dissertation on Louise Bourgeois, that I realised how much she used the sphere and spherical / near spherical objects, along with circular symbolism in her work. I was genuinely astonished, as I had […]
Saw this at Gargosian Gallery. Terrific image in every sense. His work shocked me into realising that with all my experiments with abstract expressionistic painting I’ve lost sight of the essentials. Andrews attention to composition is extreme but just maybe […]
Started work on a new project. After taking rapid phone photos of my peer group I’m now making acrylic portraits trying to capture the essence of each one rather than a realistic image. Looking at Hockney’s portraits gave me the […]
My account of the transition between academic years as an art student and dealing with the uncertainty that comes with that transition. The process of managing not knowing.
Before travelling to Kuala Lumpur we had a night sleeping in the jungle on a sort of ‘how to survive in the jungle’ trekking trip. I have learnt so much. The main thing is that bamboo is the most amazing […]
I used to love drawing as a kid and began getting back into it a couple of years ago, mainly as an accompaniment to research, but didn’t really look into it in any great depth. More recently, I have been […]
I am now working on my storyboard for the film, I am writing down the narrative for the main scenes of the story with each image. It will not include every part of the story, but it will cover the […]
The decision by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to close the gallery after over 30 years of exhibitions has prompted a storm of protest from artists and those working in the visual arts, with the latest ‘mass visit’ designed to keep the pressure on.
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.
