A selection of blogs by artists whose final year at art school happened to be 2015! The collection includes people who studied at University Campus Suffolk, Hereford College of Art, York St. John University and North Wales School of Art […]
This is a record of a research and development project funded by the Arts Council, uniting artistic practice with scientists, academics, architects and health professionals. The projects focus is the influence of environment on human experience and wellbeing.
i’m well into the flow of the residency now. i have several lines of enquiry set up to investigate and several makes waiting to be made. up first was the proof of concept for the maker bar additional interpretation sign. […]
Use an old idea reads one of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategy cards. In a set of solutions designed to encourage new channels of thinking this pointer seems a little off-message. What can it mean then to use […]
As part of my Professional Development Bursary, I am keen to spread the new knowledge and skills gained during my recent completion of two courses. This week I met with a group of art students in Newcastle and I was able […]
After completing the week long course at Nottingham Trent University – part of their Global Summer School programme – I am finding the skills and new materials I was introduced to immediately beneficial to my practice. This week I have […]
Ranging from painterly abstraction to figurative interiors and landscapes, Hurvin Anderson’s solo exhibition at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, expands on two long-standing motifs of the barbershop interior and the municipal park landscape and includes his Arts Council Collection commission, Is It OK To Be Black? Wayne Burrows talks to the artist.
A wet start to the residency but, despite the rain and swarms of flies, it was good to begin getting acquainted with the site. I sat in my hire car to paint the weather and did some drawings of the archaeologists catching […]
OK so today’s post is going to be a bit more on the gentle side compared to our Parisian adventures up to now, for today we stayed in Sacy. We invited Hermine to do a bit of yoga with us. […]
Somewhere in my last post I mentioned a small MDF mould, actually it was 10 MDF moulds that were supposed to be cubes but weren’t. I could have kicked myself but I’d already ordered the squares from a local timber […]
I am feeling a mixture of nerves and excitement as Tempting Failure 2016 is fast approaching. The festival runs from the 21st – 29th July and tickets are available here. My performance will be on the evening of the 28th July alongside […]
I got ‘Just Kids’ by Patti Smith for my birthday and I started to read it on the train this week. I also used my birthday book tokens to get a big fat coffee table monster called ‘Sanctuary: British artists […]
This week’s selection includes bnb art in Norwich, folkloric explorations in Bristol and Glasgow, and a series of Cumbrian landscapes in Kendal.
Sorry for the delayed blog post – the internet was down when we got in last night. Either that or Hermine had switched it off as she could “sense a thunderstorm brewing.” We did have a few interesting conversations with […]
Chief Librarians 1852–1858 Edward Edwards 1858–1864 Robert Wilson Smiles 1864–1879 Andrea Crestadoro 1879–1920 Charles William Suttan I read the list of librarians, sitting next to the old Manchester Library fireplace, it reminded me of a man for whom everything […]
This is an image of my father (yes, the one holding the book as ever!) and his school friends taken in about 1936. My own scan from an original copy of the Twenty Drawings booklet which accompanied Felicia Browne’s posthumous […]
Visiting a few old haunts on Orkney before the residency starts tomorrow
Good evening lovely people, I make drawings usually on paper or canford card using ink. I was wondering if there is a product that anyone has used that will give the finished drawing a sheen? All suggestions welcome. Thank you […]
