
Nicola Dowdle | Maker in Focus
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Archive
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Venue:
Mission Gallery -
From:
September 06, 2016 -
To:
November 13, 2016 -
Location:
Wales
Edinburgh Art Festival’s Platform exhibition provides early career artists the opportunity to develop and show work at this high-profile annual festival. Richard Taylor talks with one of this year’s artists whose intriguing commissioned work was built in the Scottish Highlands and fine-tuned through collaboration during residencies in Abroath and Holland.
The Lumen Prize for Digital Art has announced the 55 works by international artists included in its 2016 longlist. We take a look at the works of some of the UK-based artists included in the selection and competing for the total prize fund of $11,000.
A very windy day, with variable weather – so, unless I could find shelter from the wind, it was best to concentrate on quick drawings of people including the visitors’ tour If you are not a member of a-n, please leave comments for […]
Our last day. Sad face. Today we had a crack at the edits, looking through all the footage and trying to work out our ins and outs, quite literally. By mid afternoon, we had gotten tired of looking at hours […]
i’ve often remarked that all days are big days and some are bigger than others. today at the mill we were joined by becca, the maker ed representative in the uk. a maker and practioner herself, she’s currently an ma […]
One of my goals from the a-n bursary was to feel more professional as a practicing artist and to ensure my visibility reflected this. My mentoring session with Jennie Syson was incredibly useful in helping me achieve this, but it […]
A selected group of international artists researching both onsite and remotely beginning with themes of insulation and growth, attending talks, workshops, events, walks, skills sharing, followed by exhibition at the Ruskin Gallery 30 July 2016
Excuse the title, I like to live my life with an imaginary soundtrack. Anyhow, you have not heard from me for a while, this is not because I have been sat idly by, watching the world… No! It is […]
This week’s selection includes work inspired by the city environment and traditional Islamic art in London, an installation in Brighton by one of Arte Povera’s leading lights, and in Leeds a show exploring the relationship between sculpture and prosthetics.
“In today’s cynicism, the disavowal of knowledge is not embodied in a fetish object – things are bought to a self-referential extreme so that the fetish enables us to disavow knowledge itself. “Knowledge” functions as an obstacle which prevents … […]
There is one piece of footage that we are really struggling to find audio to match. So we left the dead cat out in the front garden for most of the morning to see what we could capture. Hermine spotted […]
So here we have a progress shot of my latest drawing, I have been working on this sporadically, typically in short bursts for quite sometime. I thought I’d share a little about my working methods and some of the […]
Since our last rehearsal, members of KEMS Minimalists have been visiting Paul Maddocks’ recording studio to play their parts for Paul to record. Paul is very patient – some taking longer than others – and he will, once all are […]
Hermine had a bit of a mental breakdown in the run up to the presentation this afternoon. The stress of the big occasion was getting to her. We managed to get the place ready for 3.30pm and then sat patiently […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The plate spinning was a useful metaphor. What I’m finding interesting is the smashed plate and how I end up seeing it…. And how others see it… “Oh you must be terribly disappointed? No Jerwood […]
Looking at adoption from the birth mother’s perspective gives the adoptee an idea of the range of circumstances and emotions of mothers who either readily gave up their babies for adoption or who were, and still are, forced or bullied […]