
NOW SHOWING #180: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes art by email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, light art in Eastbourne and George Shaw’s paintings in Kendal.
This week’s selection includes art by email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, light art in Eastbourne and George Shaw’s paintings in Kendal.
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear blog, Happy birthday to you! 10 years old today! DOUBLE figures, a whole decade behind me – wow! And who knows what lies ahead, I certainly could not […]
PREPARING FOR THREAD AND WORD A WALK FROM ESPACIO GALLERY TO LEADENHALL MARKET ON MARCH 5TH AT 1PM. This walk is by invitation only, please email me if you would like to take part. . The walk is part of […]
As a colour blind artist (please get the sniggering out of the way now please) I have always predictably struggled with the application of colour to my drawings and it’s underlying theory (theory meaning philosophically as opposed the science of […]
So the first print run of the Devices series is done (pictured here all in green). Now I am back in the print room again, some of the work in progress is either complete or very near. The other piece […]
hand-made clock that use ceramic bodies and additional wood and metal to ensure the individuality of each of our practical art pieces.
Title: And we have learnt nothing from history Relief ink on found image, Dada Day Audrey O’Brien 2016 Title taken from Kate Tempest lyrics from Europe is Lost ‘growth of prosthetic industry struck contemporaries as creating a race of […]
Studio visits are reflection points: with the holiday season spent totally ignoring my practice, getting back to the studio and looking at the work I have produced was a welcome activity. Periods of inactivity can allow us to acknowledge what […]
To celebrate the centenary years of Dada, this blog will share the work of dadaists and look at contemporary artists active engagements in politics and culture.
Been consolidating some of my work which seems to be positive. I have been concerned about only doing solo figures, [shades of modernism presumably, my go-to influence from youth} I found the power of pieces communicating can deepen and clarify. […]
Uninspired workings I’m back to collecting rubbish. Strangely the streets are relatively rubbish free at the moment so I will have to give it time. The reason I am back to collecting local debris is because of what I am […]
Highlights for the week ahead selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions in Exeter, Eastbourne, London and Pembrokeshire.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: $1 million raised to create protest art for inauguration day, V&A issue statement confirming new director Tristram Hunt is committed to free entry, and artist Tania Bruguera is detained in Cuba again.
Artists whose work has been published in a UK book, magazine or TV programme are eligible for payment through the Design and Artists Copyright Society’s annual Payback scheme.
Exhibition featuring the work of Clare Rojas and a musical performance by the artist under the guise of Peggy Honeywell.
Sets out how a-n The Artists Information Company ensures proper and fair payment both within the company and across its programmes and operations.
A recreation of a sculpture destroyed by Isis and a scoop of ice cream being eaten by a fly are amongst the shortlist for the next two commissions of the Trafalgar Square sculpture programme.
As Washington DC prepares for the 20 January presidential inauguration and the rest of the world is gripped/appalled by the latest predictably narcissistic Donald Trump Twitter outburst, London-based artist Sonya Dyer – who was on a residency in Nebraska during the election – reflects on her US experience and considers what the new era means for art and artists.
A short survey’s looking at how artists are getting on with ACE’s funding portal
“A quipu (or Chinu) in Aymara is an Andean storage device made of cord” Frank Solomon A Field trip for Thread and Word. celebrating “Cadenetas” by Lizi Sanchez “Vibratory forms in space and in time. Acts of Union and separation” […]
Over the last three years I’ve spent time volunteering in Calais and Jordan Refugee Camps, organising art projects for refugees and coming face to face with the human reality of the refugee crisis.
Engaging with the public though art – a collage workshop inspired by Eduardo Paolozzi
From Mud Baths to Montage