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How much time?

I recently filled in a survey in which I was asked ‘what percentage of your time do you spend on your work?’ I didn’t have a clue, so put a random figure of 20% on it as I fit my […]

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Brexit, Poland and the visual arts: “We will find ways to continue to work”

With a long and close relationship between the UK and Poland stretching back over generations, and an estimated 800,000 people born in Poland currently resident in the UK, what is the Polish view on Brexit and its implications for the visual arts? Emma Sumner talks to Polish artists, curators and visual arts professionals to find out.

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Beautiful

There is irony in that sometimes deep sorrow creates beautiful things….this is my beautiful thing… This is a song I wrote in memory of my beautiful niece Caitlyn. If you like it please share….The song will soon be on most […]

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The final week begins

Saturday In the afternoon, I gave a talk about my residency at the Pier Arts Centre. The room was full, with a mixed audience of local people, archaeologists and others from the site.  After giving some background to my work […]

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15th June 2016 Arrived in Rabat

Professor Rachid El Alaoui was in Rabat to greet me, taking me to a main square called Pietri Place, Place Moulay El Hassan where lots of mainly young Moroccans and families gather for coffee and socialising after breaking the fast […]

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MAISON de la Photographie de Marrakech

With the afternoon free until my train I sourced MAISON de la Photographie de Marrakech which costs 40dhs entry and is located at 46, Rue Ahal Fes, Marrakch. Email [email protected] www.maisondelaphotographie.ma  tel: 0524385721 The current exhibition is entitled ‘Morocco, the […]

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a-n members EU referendum survey: “The impact of Brexit has been immediate”

Following the result of the EU referendum in June, a-n’s member survey was a chance to get a sense of how Brexit might affect visual artists. Dany Louise highlights some of the survey findings including examples of how the decision to leave the EU is already affecting members who regularly work, exhibit or apply for opportunities in Europe.

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Arrived in Marrakech

On landing Karim who I was sat next to on the flight hired a car and offered to drop me at the train station allowing me from negotiating with the airport taxis (who in my experience charge over the odds!). The […]

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Reasons for Rabat

This bursary opportunity will enable me to complete editing the video with the assistance of Marouane Bahrar a filmmaker and photographer based at GML film and photography studios. I will be engaging with a wider community of artists and cultural practitioners, […]

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Metamekanix II mechanism

I have had to change tack on the mechanism. The design has a fault in the sense that a long single timing belt does not produce the necessary drive for each of the slats. I will need to have two […]

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A Q&A with… Edmund Clark, artist-photographer

Renowned for his work exploring issues of security and secrecy in the ‘war on terror’, Edmund Clark’s Negative Publicity sees the British photographer examine the CIA’s programme of extraordinary rendition. On the occasion of a new monograph and year-long exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, he talks to Tim Clark about the challenges of photographing invisible mechanisms of state control.

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Reflective Thinking

On Saturday 6th August I became 57 years old, I spent the day at shell bay near Studland Dorset. It was a bright sunney day and the sea was clear and warm with clear Blue Skies. The view of the […]

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Professional Development Bursary

Since the last blog entry the two mentoring sessions with Magali Avezou(archipelago), the peer mentoring group (book project group) and the site specific exhibition has happened. The mentoring sessions with Magali which has started back in May has been very […]

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