As part of the Super Slow Way programme in Lancashire, Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy is bringing the local community together through Sufi chanting, shape-note singing and a banquet for 500 people. Bob Dickinson finds out more.
No journey or adventure is complete without a travel fetish thus the necessary creation of ‘The Janus Bird’. Mixed media with bird, bone, stone and nettle, this creature only looks back to provide fuel for forward progress. Now to ready […]
Well not long now until i go to Higham Hall the final part of my Bursary , this is a residential course in cumbria where i will be working alongside other enamelists for all over the world. I am so […]
24 hour countdown… For those who are interested and either in the area, or know someone that is, attached is a link with details of my talk at Brooklyn’s ‘Museum of Morbid Anatomy’, next week. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2569438
A programme of dance, theatre, exhibitions, talks and events by disabled artists opens at London’s Southbank and this year will also go to Tramway in Glasgow.
A collection of thirty-four images documenting signs of life in urban spaces
‘… it didn’t really matter what the human consequences were.’ Neglect (definition): fail to look after, leave alone, abandon, desert, disregard, forsake Neglect is what has impacted on the state of the bread and roses since I laid them out […]
Bristol Biennial, the artist-led festival now in its third edition, combines art and ideas in a city-focused combination of new commissions and timely discussions. Maddy Hearn reports on the opening weekend of this nine-day event.
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AUDIOBLOG – Please click here There’s the apron with all of the flowers on. Lots of stitches, lots of flowers. I like it, but until today haven’t quite been able to pinpoint why it isn’t quite right. I will finish […]
My performance today was shorter than I had expected – I was engrossed and settled as I worked with the ball – I was able to play with intensity and speed – and worked outside where I had been before […]
This painting just happened. It started when I covered a failed landscape with blue paint which then needed a touch of red. Next the shapes and colours evolved into a rather sinister yet exciting image which somehow reminded me of […]
‘Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison’ is the latest project from arts producers Artangel and sees artists including Marlene Dumas, Steve McQueen, Wolfgang Tillmans and Nan Goldin exhibiting works in the former jail which, from 1895 to 1897, included Oscar Wilde amongst its inmates. Fisun Güner reports on an ambitious and moving exhibition.
Yesterday was the first session of the second phase of the Artist Teacher Scheme. We met at the School of Art in Margaret Street, and looked at the MA final show before sitting down in the basement to share some […]
“It is not one thought but all your thoughts! For from them came the glimmer of the great electronic universe, the world wide web, the objects that all carry information: you are the father of the permutated index! And yes […]
Getting excited with only two days to go before lift off! As is to be expected there have been a few drama producing logistical hiccoughs, but hopefully they are now sorted. My schedule is full of excitements. I’ll be seeing […]
This week’s selection includes a group drawing show in London, neon lights in Blackpool and digital art in Brighton.
