
NOW SHOWING #158: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes sculpture in Edinburgh, video in London and mixed media in Gateshead.
This week’s selection includes sculpture in Edinburgh, video in London and mixed media in Gateshead.
Today was Open Day on the Ness of Brodgar Dig. Despite bad weather crowds of people came to see how the excavations are progressing. The rain limited my drawing time but I managed two drawings during the (almost) dry spells. […]
I’ve just realised I wrote about Platform – Summer before adding the entry for Platform – Spring. So here it is. Lots of things have happened since my last post that prevented me from working hands on on the Spring […]
Today, Caroline and I led an alternative walk through Abergavenny as part of PEAK‘s fringe programme of cultural talks from borderland, linked to the National Eisteddfod 2016. It was the first chance for others to see and hear about work […]
a feature of my experience this week has been a tenable feeling of what my comfort zone is as i’ve been feeling very much outside it. after our day of hosting i got back to making with much gusto on […]
Well, you know how it is? Sometimes, you have to keep things secret until they are all signed and sealed, in case they all go horridy wrong, as a small girl once said… Dan and I spent much time looking […]
Thanks for the memories! l-r Sara Lerota, Rebecca Ilett and Robert Good in Mostar Our travel grant trip is over and although only we have only been back a few weeks it already seems a lifetime ago as we plunge […]
I do what I do and sometimes think about the ramifications of working alone so much with little or no validation from the outside – or larger world…then I think fuck it – I do what I do because I […]
I considered casting the form in a ‘womb-like’ material, or covering it. From this idea I sculpted, experimented, played with patterns and marks in clay and cast them in Latex. The outcomes were exciting, but I felt that they were […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here (Another plate caught and laid down gently on the table, another set gently turning) When things were stressful and unacknowledged and unappreciated, I stamped my feet, said I wasn’t going to teach again, because I […]
Today, the dig had a day off, because everyone will be working on Sunday for the Open Day. So I spent the day visiting old haunts and thinking about the project. The residency is half way through and I have begun […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: Photographer files $1 billion suit against Getty and Alamy, Orlan loses plagiarism suit against Lady Gaga, and Creative Scotland warns Brexit may limit RFO funding.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
International Curators Forum receive Arts Council fund of £300,000 for Black British Diaspora Pavilion, with ten artists set to exhibit work at Venice Biennale 2017.
A review of Grayson Perry’s ‘All Man’ series on Channel Four television.
I have been the resident artist at Sheffield’s Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, which is an industrial museum, since April (and will be until Oct), working on site for 2-3 days a week, creating 14 paintings evoking understanding of what the site […]
My overriding feeling of disappointment and upset about the state I found ‘Bread and Roses’ in days after the Referendum result stayed with me for a while. While intellectually, I was able to accept the dramatic change as an exciting […]
Rain stopped all action for the morning so I spent a few hours considering work to date and how it might be best to proceed. There is too much going on in my head to write about it here but I can say […]