
Events: Boat building, edible stones, and ‘a forest dark’
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Birmingham, Leicester, London and Whitby.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Birmingham, Leicester, London and Whitby.
The £110million project is to be built on the former Granada Studios site, with Manchester International Festival announced as operator of the new ‘flagship’ cultural venue.
Sarah McCrory has been appointed director of Goldsmiths’ new gallery of contemporary art, designed by Assemble and set to open to the public in spring 2018.
Whilst scrolling aimlessly through my Instagram page I had the thought that the throwaway society that we have now begun to live in has rubbed off on the way we choose to view art. Instead of picking up a book […]
While working on the Simulacrum series which uses a collage fragment and a printed element derived from other fragments, I altered the surfaces of some pieces. I experimented with aging effects for two reasons. Firstly because some of the surfaces […]
A collection of reflections on establishing a coaching practice as an artist and educator.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here In preparation for writing a proposal including an explanation of my work, I am reading “Stuff” by Daniel Miller, and “Material Memories”by Marius Kwint et al. Reading of the latter has again brought me to […]
This image shows a road in the town with lots of shops on. I took photographs of each frame so that I could tell a short narrative with the image. This drawing was done with pastel and it helped me […]
This has helped me to think about how a street in the small town may look, ready for starting to draw the final images for the film this month. I found doing this picture quite useful as after it’s completion […]
The Exeter-based organisation has announced a new programme of commissions, talks, events and projects supported by a major Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award.
Built in 1971 and all but abandoned by the cash-strapped local council in 2013, Turnpike Gallery in the former mining town of Leigh near Wigan, is entering a new stage in its history with the creation of a community interest company to run its programme. Natalie Bradbury speaks to arts manager Helen Stalker as the gallery relaunches with the Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibition.
So it’s been a while since I posted here and that is because due to my father being very unwell and my mentor being in the US for two months I had a gap in my mentoring program but on […]
To continue with the sense I have not lived, that I have not tasted freedom? The idea fills me with horror. Help me see… (When Nietzsche Wept, 2007)
Exploring colour, form and painting techniques in figurative and abstract art.
In the wilds of Suffolk, there is a beautiful unusual house. Contained within that house is a studio and a multi-functional table where ideas are explored and work is developed by artist Les Bicknell. In these spaces paper is cut […]
The current director of Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Art Galleries is expected to take the top job at Tate.