The large scale charcoal drawings are helping me think about how to dress the characters. What types of clothing styles I want the characters to have. The image of dress that I feel is the most suitable, would be a […]
My large scale charcoal drawings are to help me think about how the love story will unfold and how the characters emotions will unfold through out the narrative. I loved having a large piece of paper to explore on. Always […]
Has anyone here had any dealings with Netherlands-based GAA Foundation? http://www.globalartaffairs.org/ An artist has been offered a slot in their exhibition “Personal Structures” at the European Cultural Centre, in Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Bembo which will run during the Venice Biennale 13 May -26 November […]
(photo copied from The Guardian – A life in pictures feature) John Berger died at 90 yesterday. What can I possibly say of interest or relevance to add to the acres of words which will be written about him and […]
Best known for Seizure, his 2008 Artangel commission for which he covered the interior of a South London flat with copper sulphate, Roger Hiorns’ current show at Ikon Gallery sees him back in his home city, where he also hopes to soon bury a decommissioned Boeing 737. Fisun Güner talks to the artist.
For my professional practice I collaborated with sculpture artist Pauline Bickerton. We agreed to make a piece of work in response to the land space called the Hermitage at Letheringham Lodge. We looked at other artists who had taken on […]
I wanted it to be an everyday journey so I decided to walk it from my house down to the University on the Waterfront, a distance of about two and a half miles. I started out with the idea to […]
A few years ago I did a residency at ‘The Beaney’ in Canterbury and I posted six blog posts about my time there. These posts are no longer available on their website and so I thought I’d re-post them here. […]
Looking at some of the wire sculptures of Antony Gormley, I liked how his sculptures looked so simple but were very complex, the patterns he created not only with the material but with the spaces between the materials. I thought […]
30th October The experience of working with Shaun led me to further reflect on my motivation for my previous performance work. I had first started looking at performance through looking at the work of Rebecca Horn. I became interested in […]
Turner Prize-winning artist Ofili to receive a CBE, while Smith and Gander receive OBEs in annual New Year awards.
The art critic and Booker Prize-winning author, who became widely known due to his 1972 BBC TV series, Ways of Seeing, has died.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I find it interesting how a short question/comment from someone unknown can spark a train of thought as you answer: Stranger: The lyrics are really personal… how do you start writing a song from something […]
Good evening and Happy New Year to you all. This blog entry will be slightly disjointed and I will jump from one thing to the next – apologies, I have a lot to share with you and not much time. […]
29th October This performance was called Rainschemes for Insomniacs and incorporated a large scale painting and a symbolic object, a tree. The tree was placed in the middle of the performance area so that the branches reached out and upwards […]
24th October The Spill Festival of Performance arranged by the Pacitti Company had asked the University if any art students wanted to volunteer to be involved in one of Shaun Caton’s performances. I was very interested in performance and working […]
I’m looking at portraiture for my studio practice and I’m sort of hitting a bit of a wall with it. My main discipline is photography. The concept behind the image is that “there is always something in the way of […]
Ah, well, you see… its like this. Did one, then another and then … well.. time, sort of, just … went. I’m still in a sort of Bermuda Triangle, between art, architecture and real life. There are ideas “in development” […]
Lake Garda Series, Monte Pizzocolo and Monte Castello (L985) 26 x 16cm. 2016. Mixed media: graphite, colour pencil, soluble crayon, acrylic and pastel on white paper. Signed and dated on reverse.
