The following works are currently at the digital montage stage. As yet I have not decided whether I will let them remain like this or introduce mixed media to the proceedings. These images began from photographs of some of my […]
For our second Instagram degree shows takeover, Andy Jones visited the preview of the graphic design and illustration show at Liverpool School of Art and Design.
24 artists selected for annual showcase of Bow Art’s studio artists, with exhibition at Nunnery Gallery in East London to be curated by painter Anj Smith.
This week’s selection includes a sensitive exploration of mental health in Nottingham, an exhibition of Belgium-based artists in Manchester, and in Edinburgh an overview of Scottish art since the end of the second world war.
Yesterday morning I met John for coffee and toast. We talked about places to go in China and he’s connecting me with someone who runs the pottery workshop. We went to a few local art spaces. He’s a charming man […]
Today I spent a lot of time adding the finishing touches to my mannequins. They proved to be a lot harder than first imagined because o the lack of stands. Once all the mannequins were painted according to their body […]
With the announcement last week that James Richards is to represent Wales at the 2017 Venice Biennale, joining Rachel Maclean for Scotland, Phyllida Barlow in the British Pavilion and Jesse Jones for Ireland, Belfast-based curator Hugh Mulholland laments the continuing absence of a Northern Ireland presence at the world’s longest running art biennial.
Images of my sketchbook for my final year, level 6. All complied into one large book made from a wallpaper sample book. Ideal for what i wanted to acheive with. My AN blog is in reverse order from the back […]
‘Tower and Slab: Histories of Global Mass Housing’ by Frorian Urban This book explains the history of mass housing in 7 cities. It describes how in Chicago, “racial segregation…was at the root of [the] construction management and perception” of cheaply […]
I think using the wall is well suited to the subject of my work, because it’s about confronting the fears and worries that play on my mind and a wall this size, there is no escaping or hiding! As my […]
For a while I was really struggling with what to call my final pieces for my degree show, mostly the metal pieces and gardens. The mud paintings I was keeping it simple and naming it what it shows, for example […]
I have now been shown my degree show space and told that I can paint directly onto the wall, so I have looked at a few artists who use large areas of the wall for ideas. Beat Zoderer I have […]
I have briefly gone back to photography after seeing the works of Andrew Carnie and Susan Aldworth in a book called Art and Science now by Stephen Wilson. Aldworth created a series of etchings in 2006 called ‘Brainscape’ and more […]
So I’ve done more thinking about where work is going and there are two choices: I could make a series as in photography, or settle on one direction to focus on. At the moment, a series seems to be the […]
I am taking this time to reflect on the subject of my paintings and I have decided to look at the work, I made at the beginning of the year and to paint over them, because I do not feel […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I’m sat at the table with (most of) the contents of the studio still piled behind me in boxes, but with a slow seepage… now and then I shout “Where are my heavy pinking […]
well i thought it was best to make this post all though it will most likely become a footnote in this blog. i have done the printout. assesed the work. bought the exstention lead and tape to tape the cable […]
I have been moving my stuff from one space to the other. i have painted the walls floor and plinths. i have got the projector hidden and have worked out where everything is going. I have also started bringing al […]
for this show i have been keeping 2 sketch books. the A4 is a book for on site. i keep it as a way for me to make notes and quick sketches and plans in the studio. the A3 is […]
trying to print this blog is a lot harder then i thought it would be. i have tried to Print screen but the text is too small. i have tried to print from the website but it layers text over […]
Projection * I experimented with rear projection and back projection at home using the same distances as my degree show space. Neither was successful: the image from the rear of viewers at that distance was too big for the wall […]
OCULUS |ˈɒkjʊləs| noun ( pl. oculi |-lʌɪ, -liː| ) Architecture A round or eye-like opening or design, in particular: • a circular window • the central boss of a volute • an opening at the apex of a dome ORIGIN […]
The feeling of the uncanny is something I have tried to capture in my work. I want to take the viewer on a journey around the house, guide them into rooms and dark spaces with clues that will ultimately lead […]
‘When there is despair, the people from the far right take advantage. We must say that another world is possible and necessary.’ Ken Loach, May 2016 British television and film director Ken Loach was awarded a Palme d’Or last […]
