Sometimes There’s Very Little Point and sometimes you just have to be bold and slosh paint on expensive, fine handmade paper and then cut it up and splosh paste all over it, risking tearing it, and stick it on something […]
This year is the 30thth Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and a new safe confinement structure is, as we speak, being moved over the old reactor No.4. In April this year a group of artists from the North of England […]
Come along tonight 6th December 6-8 and meet the artists The work entitled Bedload part 1 and 2 started in the summer when the A20 was blocked and instead of heading off to Kent, my daughter and I diverted to […]
The New Art Gallery Walsall remains under threat of closure but gallery director Stephen Snoddy has vowed to fight hard to keep it open. Chris Sharratt argues it’s a battle that can’t be lost.
the hospital project for the derby silk mill began on site last thursday. in the lead up to the start i experienced feelings of out of comfort zone so strong that i had to spend quite sometime discussing what was […]
i’ve been keen to add a post here for over a week now. i’m having such a good time with the projects i’m involved with that the small window of opportunity has been quite elusive, until now. i’m making this […]
We’ve been in our selected home country Austria exactly four month now. A routine is creeping in, my urge to settle everybody in is slowing down, bureaucracy is getting less, my watching eye on the family members to see how […]
UK-based artists Phoebe Boswell, Rebecca Moss and Andy Holden are among the 21 artists shortlisted for fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize.
Monday 20th of July 2016 Over the past week I have been working on developing the structural component of the artwork. When I decided I would use extruded aluminium profiles, I chose to do so both for conceptual as well […]
Over the whole 5 weeks, this performance was one I was most anticipating and extremely happy I was able to experience. Having missed Maria Hassabis presentation at Impulsetanz I was very happy to find it being shown in New York. […]
Though hiring and working with Toufik Elbouchiti a Moroccan singer, song writer and performer I discovered he had a desire to meet His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco at his Palace in Rabat. Apparently the King invites blind persons to the […]
Here’s what happens when the first idea doesn’t work. In most cases when I start a piece of work I have a pretty good idea of what I want to achieve and how the finished piece will look. Sure there […]
A roundup of some of the best open studios, artist-led festive sales and exhibitions in the run up to Christmas.
Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has intervened in the protests over the recent closure of Inverleith House gallery in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
“Looking back on my time on North Uist it is difficult to describe the quality of the air, the views, the colours, the intensity of atmosphere which fascinated me so. It is a bit like having the insides of your […]
Thursday 14th of July 2016 I am starting to receive some interest from Chinese singers based in London. If all goes well I should be able to meet with some of them over a quick coffee in order to explain […]
Wednesday 6th of July 2016 The artwork will come to life through the voices of a choir of Chinese classical singers. It is probably the most important component of the piece. From a conceptual point of view, the vices of […]
I wonder if my love for simple, minimal and uncluttered artwork is as much a message to self that it is time to tidy up my life as it is a symptom of my time spent in graphic design or […]
Friday 1st of July 2016 The piece I will be presenting at MoCA will be a sculptural interactive installation, which will react to the presence of the audience in the Pavilion and, when touched by people, it will conduct a […]
Spending the past two months working on my new photographic strand of work alongside my painting practise has been an interesting journey so far. Following the photographic course at Leeds College of Art I had an overall concept for this […]
