The artist-led organisation is aiming to raise £2,500 to build a new workshop, library and project space following its recent relocation to the former Cains Brewery site in Liverpool.
This week’s selection includes paintings in Oxford, film in London and woodcut prints in Carmarthen.
40 women artists in a show inspired by textiles, but about much more
For the past few weeks I’ve been making a cube, inspired by Sol LeWitt it is an open frame and in it’s simplest form it is minimalist in appearance. Whilst my method of making a cube was not as […]
A few days ago I went to a session organised by Ludic Rooms as part of their Random String professional development (I’ve been a mentor on this year’s programme). Our focus was on applied research – artists working together with […]
Mehretu, Black Ground (deep light), ink and acrylic on canvas, 2006, 182.9 x 243.8 cm In contrast to Zaha Hadid, for whom architecture was the driving passion and focus of her work, for Julie Mehretu, architecture – and compressed urban […]
I was invited to give a presentation of Sound Scape at the annual AGM and Conference of the Landscape and Arts Network, of which I have been a member for many years. My prepared PPP presentation unfortunately couldn’t open, but […]
Here are some secondary source drawings I made using my primary source sketches from the Glyptoteket Gallery in Copenhagen. I really like the use of different colours to represent tones, and the pattern i’ve created with the pen strokes. I […]
Took a short trip to Copenhagen to visit a few of the galleries it had to offer – I was not disappointed! The Glyptoteket was by far my favourite, I think I spent about 3 hours in there altogether. In that […]
As a woman over 50 I want to share my thoughts with you on being a creative person and finally trying to pin down what it is, exactly, that I do.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I read with great interest and admiration that my friend Stuart Mayes has been blogging on a-n for ten years, and with a quick glance at my archive, realise that I’m coming up to my […]
I do not want to quote any artist names, or websites at this point. For I have never done a blog before, and I fear if I do not quote them correctly, there will be consequences. Bearing this in mind, […]
After the realisation, that the 3-D hands would not work with what I had. I started looking into different ways to express what I wish to show within the hands. That being the vulnerability to others, and the influence they could […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Alasdair Gray to exhibit at Glasgow Library, Christo cancels project in protest against Trump, and Saatchi gallery to exhibit selfies.
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes a critique of NHS Transgender care waiting lists, landscapes of social housing, regeneration and memory, and an undercover book trail exploring the 10th century art of fore-edge painting.
i come to the end of the week feeling the affects of my current cold. fortunately i was able to attend the prototyping conversation at derby silk mill. four diverse aspects of prototyping had been assembled and it led to a […]
I’ve had quite a long break from blogging. It’s not that I haven’t thought about it; actually, every time I do something that relates to my artistic practice I think about how I could and should blog about it, but […]
The British filmmaker has been awarded the £40,000 prize for “substantial body of outstanding work”.
Delving into the story of a house on a lake
WEDNESDAY, 25 JANUARY 2017 Seasalter in the frost in January, an estuary walk. A good place to think. REFLECTIONS ON LAST WEEK’S WALK FROM ESPACIO GALLERY TO LEADENHALL MARKET: A FIELD TRIP FOR OUR WALK THREAD AND WORD ON MARCH […]
Whilst researching at Warleggan on Fowey moor (re named by Ordinance survey as Bodmin moor) during the Farnworth residency I came across this Penwith, where ‘The great and small in life and death (find) animal joy and terror’ Peter Lanyon
