I have, in the past few days, realised how blessed I am living in a country with the modern convenience of speedy internet. Here, and probably in many other countries the internet is completely rubbish. It is mainly downloading and […]
Process 1 Waiting is Over Materials Whole piece cotton fabric and 50m linen tape, hand stitched Approx 5’ 2” long. Context and Influences Marlene Dumas Dead eyed figures, corpse enclosed in claustrophobic frame Christ……..sacrifice? futile? Medieval tombs – wives who […]
The ‘Viva Arte Viva’ international exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale will feature 120 artists from 51 countries.
For her Art on the Underground commission, you don’t know what nights are like?, Mitra Tabrizian has produced two large-scale billboard photographs outside Southwark station that explore the isolation and marginality of London’s night workers. Chris Sharratt finds out more.
New Inspiration & Refining Direction Since my last post I have thought more about my idea, and have changed how I want to showcase it. Instead of painting 12-13 large paintings, I have decided to paint a large number of paintings […]
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, you cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, and the dead tree gives […]
Play for a child is very important it helps them learn the boundaries of life in the modern world. In a similar way, wolf pups play to practice skills children do the same thing, social, physical and emotional are areas that play […]
Chris Ofili goes on to say ““Often in the end a finished painting would be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath, I tried to think of a way of working where all of those layers could coexist without cancelling […]
To begin semester 2 I had a tutorial where I discussed what my plans were for my studio practice for this semester, and I decided I wanted to document my day-to-day life through my art. Which involves the work I […]
I discovered the artist Hiroshi Sugimoto who is a photgrapher. His photos of the dioramas from the Natural History Museum in New York, inspired me. I Love the way the animals look alive and even though i like working in colour, […]
As well as the prints that I made in the workshop onto fabrics (the ones i mentioned in my very first blog post), I have also been practicing with my embroidery techniques. I practiced on a medium sized embroidery hoop, […]
Formed in Hull in the late 1960s, COUM Transmissions – members of which would later become Throbbing Gristle – pushed performance art to the limit, culminating in the 1976 ‘Prostitution’ show at the ICA which saw them vilified in the press. With a Hull City of Culture exhibition exploring the group’s legacy, Bob Dickinson speaks to founding member Cosey Fanni Tutti.
I now need to start to answer my own questions and learn from them. From doing these rough shorts I am finding more problems and thinking that I still need a lot more practice. Staff Member told me I just […]
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 […]
