Last week, I ran a series of Peace Painting workshops at Priory Witham Academy, organised by Paradigm Arts, who are funding the work. I worked with Paradigm Arts last year for a series of after schools comics workshops for my […]
This year saw Frances Morris become director of Tate Modern and in June the gallery’s £260m extension, The Switch House, opened to positive reviews. She reflects on what has personally been an “amazing year” while lamenting a period in which “respect for difference and individuality” has been vigorously attacked.
University of Kent graduate Daniel Owusu wins £2,500 bursary and programme of professional development.
A look at society, debt and suicide through poems and cartoons.
Solve et coagula is the description of a stage in the alchemists’ process where everything that has gone before seems to pass away, to disappear into an unrecognisable fluid state then begin to reform into something completely new and original. […]
The crypt is cold – dank is the word that springs to mind. Just being able to think about nothing but what I am doing. Having an idea and trying it out. Tearing shadows from tissue paper. Overnight I have […]
I don’t know how I can tell you how wonderful it is for an artist without a studio to get to work in such a residency. Space and time to make and think…and what a place…a brick labyrinthine crypt. Just […]
Quite short notice, almost the last thing of the year, just a few days – what can be done in such an artist residency? An investigation into the nature of shadows and echoes When I was a child I believed […]
Artist in residence. Crypt Gallery. St Pancras, London
This week I worked steadily on new abstract, worry doll/bricolage-type objects to cast, produced another mould of an existing object made drawings to aide these processes. It is a sometimes slow process and lessons are learned by making – for example, a shiny surface produces a see-through […]
i’ve begun considering if this blog will be best finished on new years eve and another begun on new years day. it’s a pattern i’ve followed for a few years now and it works for me. in considering winding this […]
Having completed the online course I was studying, a little behind schedule, I can now review it. In principle, online courses are great, especially if you live in an area where the educational provision does not meet your requirements. If […]
It’s been a while since I updated things here. The editing process has taken up most of any spare time I’ve had, as the end of the year deadline for completing the short film has become more real. More recently, […]
Julia and I visited two different light festivals as the final visits for our a-n professional development bursary, which rounded off a fantastic year of visiting inspiring exhibitions and events in variety of settings and spaces, motivating conversations with artists […]
Back in August Julia and I took a trip to Rode Hall, Cheshire to visit Just So Festival. We decided to go for one day – the Saturday – to find out a bit more about the arts at the […]
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes Spanish ghost villages on Google maps, explorations of light and colour in Derby and Leeds, and a tree sculpture in Hull.
The third and final presentation for the Test Bed show at Oriel Davies Gallery is now on view until 7th January 2017. It has been a fascinating journey towards the personal presentation of the work for the Test Bed gallery. The […]
Research and development exploring reconsiderations of landscape through my fine art practice as part of the A-N Travel Bursary 2016
I have been working on developing the characters body language for my work in the Degree project. Been thinking about the sorts of feelings the characters will be going through in the narrative of the film. The two main characters are in love and want […]
Scott leaves her current role at Holburne Museum in Bath to become the first female director of the world’s oldest purpose-built public art gallery.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Anish Kapoor banned from using world’s most glittery glitter, the second ACE diversity report, and Gdansk community mural cut up and put on sale by British art dealer.
Thursday 25th—27th of August 2016 I spent the last two days at the screenprinting studio with Faye McNulty. All test prints from the previous session have been tested at my studio, in order to assess the coefficient of conductivity; this […]
