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 […]
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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 […]
Shona Stone Sculpture of Zimbabwe
The art-activist campaign group Platform says protests against BP will escalate following the oil giants announcement of new sponsorship deals with the British Museum, Royal Opera House, the National Portrait Gallery and Royal Shakespeare Company.
I’m facing the awkward dilemma at the moment, of having to vandalise someone else’s work. For an exhibition in September, I was going to continue experimenting with ceramics and clay polymer, to create a work with a Greek Theme (in […]
