
‘Instruments of Industry’ – Interview with Hannah Leighton-Boyce
Jack Welsh interviews Hannah Leighton-Boyce in response to her recent exhibition ‘Instruments of Industry’ at Touchstones Rochdale
Jack Welsh interviews Hannah Leighton-Boyce in response to her recent exhibition ‘Instruments of Industry’ at Touchstones Rochdale
I have developed a one-to-one session and a workshop for artists, it’s called Artists Insight. The first sessions took place in June 2016 in Brighton. I want to write about how this evolved. The workshop and sessions are about taking the time to […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It was Sonia’s idea, and as I write that, it sounds accusatory “She did it, not me!” I wish it had been my idea. But if it had, it would be a different thing… I […]
as the residency settles into it’s rythym my thinking continues to be a banging buzzing booming confusion. i just had to write that so i can begin to ease the need to think it. after catching up with grayson perry’s […]
The first Dundee Design Festival was held on 25th-28th May this year. I had booked in for one of the events, Mass Assembly, which was a one-day forum “exploring the future of collective working for creatives and the places they […]
Took the opportunity to take a walk around Lindenau, the neibourhood just east of Grunau. It was until the late 1880’s a marsh, then the canal was built, and the land built on. There are allot of project spaces here […]
As well as the video, performance – photographs. I want to make a book full with the photographs of the journey and areas implying some of the questions that were asked, and answered by local people in Stoke, some of […]
Sorry for slow uplod of blogs which my guest are here but our agenda for the 2 weeks in Manchester was intense and productive. Once word had got around most of my media friends wanted to meet Råfilm Collective members, […]
Last Wednesday, I gave the first talk about this project as part of Fringe Arts Bath #FaB16, entitled Drawing towards Orkney. It gave an account of how my recent practice has been building up to the residency on the Ness […]
I’m in Victoria Park, which was formally a typhoon shelter known as Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, a part of Victoria Harbour, used as a refuge by fishing boats and yachts during typhoon seasons. I’m watching men race toy boats. They take this seriously. […]
Today an impromptu visit from a group of school children, who after their drama class which took place on the lawn outside our work space, called in to see what we are doing. In the afternoon, Ivana came again to […]
Last Saturday I was able to take much of the learning and systems I have developed through my self development programme and put them in to practice at a 1 day residency at Grasslands, a project led by Dan Auluk. […]
The RSPB bird reserve weekend at Conwy was lovely. The staff were very welcoming and best was sitting in the `Lookout` watching the Canada Geese and their offspring dipping into the misty water. I had a new journal with me […]
Artists’ Union England has received its ‘certificate of independence’ after a three-year process, establishing it as an officially recognised union.
Yayoi Kusama, All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016, Wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED, 292.4 x 415 cm Wharf Road, N1 7RW, until 30 July, 2016 The exhibition which reflects Kusama’s lifelong fascination with the infinite and […]
The fifth edition of the Sheffield Fringe festival at Bloc Projects features work by more than 35 artists and questions the objectification of the ‘real’. Chris Sharratt finds out more from curator Minou Norouzi.
The London gallery’s expanded 2016 architecture programme has opened to the public, featuring the 16th annual pavilion designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and four newly commissioned summer houses.