Since Tuesday I have learned a little about: amazing previously unknown (to me) photographer Vivian Maier hackers, the fortune to be made by hacking and the ease with which they can hack into apps such as Whatsapp to glean data […]
I use drawing as a site specific process to explore repetition, relationship and trace. I am about to research air movement and how it affects the landscape I would like to know if anyone already works in this area or if you can […]
Portrait Of Ian Duncan Smith With Bandaged Nose was taken to City Arts in Nottingham and successfully delivered yesterday lunchtime. I’ve updated my blog with links to other exhibitions I caught whilst in Nottingham, including the epic Simon Starling works […]
Mona Hatoum’s exhibition and artist talk at Tate Modern showcased a broad range of her practice and relationship with performance, sculpture and installation; how she addresses key themes and her choice of materials. What she focused on was how work […]
This past week I have been installing a new site-specific work, Our Colour Reflection, at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in North Lincolnshire. It has been a massive undertaking both mentally and psychically as it is such an enormous work. I […]
Five projects from a-n members, selected from our busy Events section, take us to Hull, Langport, Leigh on Sea, London and Spalding.
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news. This week includes the latest on Tate/BP sponsorship secrecy, the Japanese artist charged with obscenity, and censorship of the arts in Egypt and Turkey.
There are a few reasons I haven’t updated my blog for an entire month – one, I simply haven’t had time and two, the cooling fan on my laptop was on the way out so I could only use it […]
I was scrolling through images upon images, of the same sort of art that i have been looking at for weeks. I couldn’t help but feel that I had became trapped, in an endless cycle of books and letters page […]
During Poppy Jacksons workshop we did an exercise that explored the mouth. I stood opposite Poppy for 5 mins with my fingers inside her mouth, and hers inside mine. We explored eachothers mouths; feeling the structure, the textures, listening to […]
My blogs are crossing over, a studio visit to Polly Cruse from an ergonomic perspective, movements and postures described. Text and further images can be viewed on the Postures of Making blog.
Visiting an artist studio is always a privilege – in fact I think that of any workspace, whatever the context. The attention I give to work and workspaces comes from an extended fascination with how we spend much of our […]
Today we wrote a leaflet announcing our arrival to the local community and forewarning them about our plans. It is of course in French, but I’m sure you can get the gist. This fancy leaflet encourages people to come to […]
This blog post appears as the Museum begins to pick up the threads and we welcome visitors once more after a quiet period. It is written in gratitude for two great gifts – those of friendship and insight. Yet again, […]
THis is my general blog, with news and tips
The artists Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek have been announced as the recipients of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017.
She is walking slowly into the Leith… oil indigo and sugar on canvass, 1m x 1m, work in progress So I am working on these pieces building up layers of pigment and darkness dealing with stories from the trade in […]
Birmingham artist Barbara Walker’s latest collection of drawings explores the often under-recognised role of black servicemen and women in the British Armed Forces.
I’ve been having a studio sale to raise match-funding. Last weekend there was a local Arts Trail. There was a good turn out and I sold some prints and postcards. My studio is therefore clean, tidy and ready for action. […]
Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde shortlisted for £25,000 award, with three out of the four nominees working with sculpture.
I was so chuffed to see my former critical theory tutor at CSM, Kate Love, at the PV of Nautical Perspectives the other evening. As everyone knows, PVs are mainly about talking so luckily I was over my sore throat. […]
