For just 10 days, the Whitstable Biennale transforms the seaside town on the Kent coast with its intelligent art-led approach and unusual new commissions. Dany Louise reports from a biennial like no other.
Knowledge, sharing, showing, exchanging, eating and making work.
You are requested to close the eyes
Not a daily blog! Meant to be but due to lack of internet access it has been reduced to this. It actually made the residency better as there were no distractions. Just finished Prefab-Lab with curators, Elaine Fisher and Lucy […]
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched by V22 to help fund London’s first creche in an artists’ studio complex.
This week’s selection includes painting in Edinburgh, digital images in Portsmouth, and sculpture in Yorkshire.
The colaboration has already begun
Back on the train to Edinburgh this should have been a two day event but things have been changed slightly today (Saturday) is the silver casting and then on the 6th June we will continue with the enamelling of the […]
I have now been on the first of my classes in Cold enamelling to update my skills in, I travelled up to Glasgow on the Friday ready for the early start on Saturday, there was 8 of us on the […]
On the train t 7.43 AM off to Edinburgh , why cant we have some enamelling tutors in Newcastle ! well I know of one but she is off doing her PHD . Dorothy Cockerell is a world famous enamelling […]
I arrived in Leipzig early in the evening and went straight to D21, the project space from which Raster : Beton (Concrete : Grid) festival has been organised. This space was founded in 2006 by a group of artist as a […]
I’m hiding away in the hostel, preparing for my big Skype interview on Wednesday. Wish me luck! It’s kind of distracting as everyone is constantly talking and going on trips but I appreciate the constant company. I take breaks to […]
I’ve been back from Athens 6 days now but have only just got round to packing away work from exhibitions I had in February and March. If it had been in my studio it would have been fine, but it […]
Working with the fabricator’s delivery
Ted Harrison’s notes from Britain’s most northern art studio
Well, a wonderful opportunity landed in my lap – an invite to produce a film for the Whitstable Biennale Fringe! The downside: make a new film connected to Whitstable in a few weeks when the last one took me about […]
On Sunday May 29th, we had a further rehearsal, without sculptures, of the music that Julia had composed for the 9 nature sculptures and it was sounded really good. On Wednesday June 1st we had our first performance of […]
It’s been ages since my last post but, in my defence, the time has been well spent. The collage I’ve talked about in the last few posts is deceptively simple but was tricky to resolve. In the end, what worked […]
‘You can’t take it with you’ is a phrase used by my Mum and her mother before her. It’s true, you can’t, and I’ve been thinking again about the ways in which my work often touches on the fine line […]
A truly exciting two days on the object front! Yesterday I finally caught up with a contact who had been keeping some genuine 1930s glasses for me, and I was able to take them with me to the studio today. […]
Submission Day is here!
Here, I want to acknowledge the paper and packaging based things collected in Amsterdam that will make up a book, page-work or fancy ‘something or other’ in the coming weeks. I identify a process of collecting, archiving and arranging as […]
