As the New Art Gallery Walsall, opened in 2000 and home to the Garman Ryan Collection of over 300 Jacob Epstein sculptures, is threatened with closure, the artist Bob and Roberta Smith expresses his dismay at its possible demise.
The trouble about trying to keep a blog while there are lots of exciting things going on, is that there is no time to actually blog! I am sure this sentiment is shared with everyone else on this site. There […]
Two performances working with choreography featured in the festival I want to focus on are: Leilas Death by Ali Chahrour (Lebanon) and Still Life by Morgan Thorson (U.S.A.). Two very different performances however both deal with time as a tool […]
Under the banner ‘Whose Art? Our Art!’, this year’s engage International Conference in Liverpool explored gallery education through the lens of art activism with two days of speeches, discussion and debate. Laura Harris reports from the city.
‘Seed to Harvest’ Sukkot meal and live performance I organised in Dublin last Sunday is a side story from the trip to Ukraine. The Quartet (Olesya Zdorovetska – voice, Nick Roth – saxophones, Olie Brice – double bass, Matthew Jacobson – percussion) […]
I’m posting this a bit late as Anna Townley visited my studio a couple of weeks back now. It’s really interesting to host two studio visits in a week; each person brings their own responses based on their own practices […]
The arts community in Scotland and beyond has responded to the shock announcement that Edinburgh’s Inverleith House gallery is to close, with a petition calling for the decision to be reversed.
Little voices Sometimes there is a natural lull in one’s art work. Caught between a mixture of wanting to try new things completely, to wanting to use my tried and tested methods to communicate current concerns. Ideally I should both. […]
The 15th edition of ArtReview’s annual Power 100 names Serpentine Galleries artistic director as the artworld’s most powerful figure.
My project for this year is revolving around the issues surrounding gender equality, focusing on Emma Watson’s UN speech on the subject. By issues, I mean the fact that women and men are expected to have completely different personas because society […]
Start as I mean to go on is the phrase that comes to mind. I got two short print runs completed in the first day. I met many new staff and some students, and found my way around. I am […]
Advancing ideas around the simulacrum, and other questions concerning the copy, the original, and representation, through work produced in my artist’s residency in the printmaking room at the University of Suffolk.
With PICA’s statement on their focus for TBA: “TBA is resolutely interdisciplinary, and champions those artists who are challenging forms and working across mediums, from dance to performance to visual art.” The opening of the festival promised nothing but this. […]
I think as well as exploring the metaphorical armour that women might need in a patriarchal society I am beginning to think more deeply into female vulnerability; I don’t want to present a female version of machismo. Is vulnerability a […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I’ve been saying it for a while, but more recently getting away with it less…. “I’m not a musician or a performer!” Depending on your definitions, at least one of these is now not true. […]
I received back the light box from the framer yesterday, I was pleased that my idea worked and also that it looked striking. I had included three layers of plates, the same image engraved onto perspex lit from behind, and […]
The indigo works that I am showing at Chelsea come from a series addressing the question of sense making with diminished information. Indigo has been at the heart of global trade since it began, it is mentioned in Pliny, as […]
Report highlights challenges faced by artists and other freelance professionals working across Scotland, with continuing issues relating to artists’ fees.
The influential Belgian artist Luc Tuymans currently has a small show of his own work, ‘Glasses’, at the National Portrait Gallery, while a major James Ensor exhibition he’s curated opens at the Royal Academy later this month. He talks about both with Fisun Güner.
a festival of contemporary & performance art from the UK and beyond.
Tuesday 18th October: I met the artist Catherine Farish at her gallery Simon Blais www.galeriesimonblais.com. We were given a wonderful potted history of Quebec and it’s modern art movements by Paul Bradley, one of the gallery team, who showed us […]
