AN INTRODUCTION I started the group Walking with the Waste Land assisted and encouraged by research curator Trish Scott to use walking as a research tool as a part of the wider Research Group A Journey with The Waste Land, […]
Devonshire Collective is a new council-backed gallery and workshop space on Eastbourne’s seafront, providing professional development and resources for artists while also delivering socially-engaged projects. Dany Louise reports.
Artists including Sir Antony Gormley, Martin Boyce, Cornelia Parker and Douglas Gordon have created new works utilising debris from the Glasgow School of Art fire, to be auctioned at Christie’s London to raise funds for the restoration of the art school’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building.
Firstly I will apologise for the disjointed nature of what you are about to read, I managed to stay in my studio until 11pm tonight so must be quick. I stole a really cheeky look around the National Gallery after […]
Work in progress going well, though late with the blog entry. The series with ‘news stand’ as the working title, is yet to be fully developed, but a first completed run has been made, and pictured here. This set using […]
A tech aware but not tech savvy artists guide to building a website. ‘Just start it’ he says, ‘you can always change it – just get going’, ‘Come up with a bit of content then off we go’ , or […]
Fig. 1 Sze, Triple Point Pendulum, 2012, Mixed Media, various dimensions Sarah Sze’s work addresses the proliferation of diverse information and multifarious objects which dominate contemporary life. Sze incorporates elements of painting, architecture, and installation within her sculptures through which […]
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 […]
