I have just been in Portugal where they take the role of art in economic development seriously, understanding how important culture is in creating change, desirability in neighbourhoods and optimism. It was inspiring, and Lisbon is gorgeous, and good for […]
The Womb The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins’ in 1892 was created in response to the oppression of women regarding their treatment with mental illness. I can identify with parts of the story and feel that they are relevant […]
Duct IV is featured as on the cover of the July issue of the International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape. Duct IV is part of a series of works entitled Forms of Containment, a reference to the influential British psychoanalyst, Wilfred […]
So tomorrow Rebecca Ilett and I leave the UK for Europe. Our fact-finding trip to meet with artist friends across the Channel has taken on a new and wholly unexpected twist in the light of the events of the last […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I’m an emotional human being. I react strongly to events, people, music, art. This week has been tough. I am overwhelmed by my own responses. In order to cope without lashing out verbally in a […]
Creative Industries Federation chief executive John Kampfner and Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar on the arts post-Brexit.
I’m in the studio for the first time this week, on a Friday afternoon, having completed week 1 of my residency. I have mixed feelings today, as we woke up this morning to the gloomy news of Brexit. It’s been […]
It seems the artwork that I posted yesterday was a little too optimistic. Here’s a companion piece to even things out a little:
Five projects and programmes from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and taking us to Bracknell, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Great Yarmouth and Halesworth.
‘Projection’ is a word I have been pondering in the most recent developments of this body of work. To begin with, at the start of the Bursary, my perception of the word ‘projection’ involved using a device to play images […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: predicting the Brexit effect, turbulence for art education in California and Sweden, a restored house boat eco-experiment in Long Island, new acquisition fund for UK regional museums.
The effect of the exhibition is to bring the immediate landscape into the mill and reinstate the importance of the landscape to the mill and the local industry.
As the UK votes to leave the EU, artists and those working in the visual arts have been responding on social media.
Moving into ‘realisation’ means a change of gear. Last term for me was all about process and play – and now there is outcome to consider. This has meant clarifying and re-clarifying the key themes that I want to be […]
I was invited along with fellow MFA student Jodie Nicholson to contribute to an exhibition at Vegetable Agenda. These images are taken from the web site – the work is by Mita Solanky, Colin Shaw and myself – and […]
The representative body for visual artists in Ireland is proposing that a tourist bed tax should be introduced in the country, with funds raised going to the arts and cultural sector.
It’s maybe off topic, since this blog is supposed to just be about the work I was making for POST’s Whitstable show the other week, here’s my voting day contribution to the remain campaign. #artistsforIN
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I have my own little in/out struggle going on. How to make another leap of faith, when the obstacles are mainly within myself? I’m kind of stuck. Because I presently have no studio my work […]
