I picked up my prints yesterday. Some will need to be stained with tea and aged by scratching into the surface. The original photos are pasted to a board with the photographers name printed on. The lettering is beautiful. I […]
Kind Jan has set me up with a little trestle table, a wooden dining chair and a strong cup of coffee to work at in Boekie Woekie today. I’m picking out book-works to sit with and think about in the […]
A nice short docu showing the work of HenPower, who use hens in care home setting with residents to inspire their creativity. https://vimeo.com/166355418
In the Shadow of the Pyramids – a searing study of the impact of the Egyptian revolution on everyday people – has been shortlisted for the £30,000 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016. Tim Clark catches up with Laura El-Tantawy on the occasion of her exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Hello and welcome to the blog! Our immense gratitude to ACE for making this exciting project happen, by supporting us through the Grants for the Arts scheme. As we make our way towards our exhibition in October, I’ll be blogging […]
Hello, Has anyone done a residency at Pinea Linea de Costa A.I.R project in Rota? Can you tell me what your experience was? Thanks
A blog documenting my research trip exploring Amsterdam’s artist run book stores supported by a-n through a 2016 Travel Bursary award
Today we had to make a quick trip to the centre of Paris for some emergency camera repairs. If you ever need a sensor clean in Paris, we highly recommend the relaxed (2 hour lunch break), friendly (gave us blueberries) […]
Induction day and I was asked to prepare a dish before my arrival so I decided to come up with one of my favourite dishes, spicy Mexican Sweet Potato and Chicken Soup. Since I became single I’ve not cooked this […]
An Arts Council England funded collaborative project about Felicia Browne, a British artist who volunteered and died in the Spanish Civil War. Through poetry and visual art we will respond to her life and her archive of drawings and letters held at Tate Britain.
Competition that teams contemporary artists with museums and galleries announces winners following public vote.
I will be speaking at CCAD, Hartlepool on 7th June 2016 about this project; you can book a free place here!
A new biennial arts festival celebrating the Thames Estuary will feature 70 artists working in partnership with Estuarine communities to develop and present their work.
An artist notebook from 1954 to 2016
The street artist known for his large stick-figure murals has donated prints for auction at Christie’s to raise money for Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Art Charitable Fund.
The Office for Art, Design and Technology is a new two-year programme of residencies, events, exhibitions and professional development for new and more established artists with digital practices. Anneka French talks to the artist leading the programme as well as artists and mentors involved in Post-Modern Plant Life 2, the recently completed first stage of the initiative.
Postit notes play a major role in my editing process, their sticky strips being the perfect place to line up the words that will later become diagram poems. I arrange the words thematically or by mood, with a different colour for […]
Since following an online course on ‘machine learning’ I have been able to use some of what I have learned to manipulate Kinect and Leap Motion data to create visuals that respond to an environment through the 3d depth data […]
Early days in the print studio at KALA were all about familiarising myself with the lovely staff members, observing how the studio works and getting to know some of the fellow artists in residence and printmakers that use KALA regularly […]
We would like you to meet the seven new family members soon to be taking up residence in the Chateau gardens: Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Dopey, Bashful and Sneezy. It was strange because we had discussed only the day before […]
As my work is documented I am using photographs (along with a projection) in my exhibition they are black and brown in order to add to the elemental nature of my work
There will be ice balls suspended in the centre of my exhibition so I got a black bucket to catch the drips of water in for health and safety’s peace of mind
a quick test to see the effectiveness of my floor lights behind the planks. I like this effect and will continue to prepare the planks to disguise them with black paint
Six of these small but powerful led lights will be placed on the floor next to the walls to illuminate the pieces of work in my space, a trip to wicks and I purchased wooden planks to hide the lights […]
a shot of the dark space I have for my exhibition. Still needs to be cleared out but still good to be able to visualise the space
