This week’s selection includes a group show of 24 female artists’ work in Penzance, Turner watercolours in Margate, and a sculptural exploration of everyday materials in Edinburgh.
KyungWon accompanied me to visit Jongjin Park in his studio, which is in a town called Guri, south east of Seoul. The journey involved trains and buses and we ended up in downtown Geru you looking up at a semi […]
After starting a new part-time post in May, it ended up being more difficult than I imagined finding the right time for the course I outlined in my Professional Development Bursary. With so many on the market, all advertising pretty […]
15th October First night in Czech Republic, staying in old nuclear bunker called 10-Z
Aside from the main activity of mentoring, another activity I identified and proposed for this bursary was attendance at a number of professional development workshops and events. I have previously attended great events at the Cultural Enterprise Office on writing […]
Well no comments yet, and there was I thinking that I might get picked up on the claim that blogging results in clarity. Not sure that the last post I nailed it, clarity, that is. This thing about the simulacrum […]
Latest floor painting. Frankenthaler stained colours, now to add some Pollock- inspired dribbles and splashes ! It’s about my solo arrival in Queensland back in 1990 with just a backpack and nowhere fixed to stay….a magical moment in my life. […]
For news about our latest walk using walking as a research process.Please follow the link. These walks have been developing since November 2015 as a part of the research group, A Journey with The Waste Land. We are working towards […]
So apart from flu, this week has included an inviation from a gallery and a visit to that gallery, with a fuzzy head I met the lovely Maria Rzepecka and Patrick Needham (no relation) at Gabriel Fine Art in the […]
Second day of module two and another day packed with information, different coaching models, discussing and practicing. The learning space is exciting, invigorating and safe. The physical space where the coaching takes place is important, but when a coach talks […]
This is a small, metalpoint-on-gesso, drawing of a tiny photograph I found in a second hand shop in Margate. The photograph, which has ‘Neujahr 1940’ written on the back of it, is about 6cm x 9cm and my drawing is […]
Offering No10 of 50 Collages Before Christmas Didn’t We Believe We Were Something? is the piece mentioned in the last post about which I was undecided how to proceed. I decided to go with the easy it wanted to go […]
The quote below by psychoanalyst, Hanna Segal is taken from her interview with journalist John Henley, published in ‘The Guardian’ in September 2008: ‘But the important thing is to keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. I find […]
Hanna Segal, psychoanalyst in an interview with journalist John Henley, The Guardian. September 2008: ‘But the important thing is to keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. I find this extraordinarily helpful: we live in a mad world, […]
Supporting the development of professional art practice
Presentation 1, showing work by both Caroline Wright and me (see images above) is now over. Presentation 2 is now showing – (see images below) until 8th December when presentation 3 will take over.
The Baltic Artists’ Award will provide a platform for the work of four emerging artists and celebrate the role of the artist-mentor.
Seems like ages ago now, but on the last weekend of October, two of us (myself and Jackie Kerr) from the Liverpool section of our group headed over to Nottingham to see the Harrington Mill Open Studio event, including an exhibition […]
