Painting ‘Can I touch your hair?’ (unfinished), mixed media’ on canvas, 2016 Loleithaart.co.uk #wip #steatopygia #physiognomy #calligygia #degreeshow #loleithaart I have always been asked this question ‘can I touch your hair?’ for as long as I can remember, and I […]
This was Day 2. Operation Black Antler – “an immersive theatre piece by four-times BAFTA nominated artists’ group Blast Theory and critically-acclaimed immersive theatre company Hydrocracker that invites you to enter the murky world of undercover surveillance and question […]
I like to get the first diagram poem of a series finished early on in the process, even before the rest of the words have been collected, sorted and collated. This collection of diagram poems will be exhibited as an edition […]
At the recent two-day Social Making symposium in Plymouth, socially engaged practice was discussed in relation to Arnstein’s Ladder, a theory of citizen participation devised in the 1960s. Carolyn Black explores its relevance.
Hurrah! I’ve downloaded the logo and created the bank account. Online and hard copy forms have been sent. We’re official and our work can begin. Thank you Arts Council England! I’m debating setting up a separate blog here on a-n […]
The Scottish artist and filmmaker Rachel Maclean is to present a solo exhibition for the Scotland + Venice partnership at the 57th Venice Biennale.
Its interesting that at this stage of my degree the last thing I need is to not be getting on with the painting! And I think that because of stress in these final weeks, because its so important, its challenging […]
Today we went to Paris to check out a taxidermy emporium called Deyrolle. Taxidermy is de-rigueur in these parts and we wanted to investigate it. When we eventually managed to exit Les Halles station (no lie, we were walking round […]
It’s been an exciting weekend, with the start of Binocular and the coming-together of a few of the people, elements and places involved. In this post I will simply introduce the people involved, but following posts will describe creative discussions […]
A tutorial with Robin led to the idea that I might include my photographs I took at Tranmer House in my degree show. I could display them in an old photograph album or perhaps a book. A trip to a […]
First outing on Saturday night – there was quite a sense of anticipation – the start of something exciting! The Dome at Brighton was buzzing… in fact Brighton generally was buzzing with post-children’s parade and pre-gig excitement in the early […]
photograph taken by Robin Woodward Still from video The performance sees a white pigmented figure walking towards the river, the figure is non idyllic due to the folds in the clothes. However the whiteness somewhat masks this, that is until […]
This blog is happening to coincide with a greatly received R&D bursary from A-N, I will be using the bursary to support new skills learnt in sculpture to develop new Installation works for the project WITH-IN-MEMORIAM.
Here i will be blogging about this process
Best known for his paintings using Humbrol enamel, George Shaw’s new show is the culmination of a two-year residency at the National Gallery. Fisun Guner finds out how he has responded to the gallery’s collection and gets some tips on how to rejuvenate the Turner Prize.
This week’s selection includes portraiture in Leeds, Pre-Raphaelites in Liverpool, still life in Wimbledon and video and installation in London.
In order to further ingratiate ourselves with the locals, we signed up for a short forestry course today. If anyone can tell us what our guide Alain was on about, do let us know, cheers. It might have been prudent […]
I recently travelled to Chernobyl and Pripyat, Ukraine to extend my personal research into the current issues of this site on the 30th anniversary of the world’s biggest and most devastating nuclear disaster.
I had never attended a workshop before so I was excited to see what would happen. It felt exciting to put myself into an unknowing situation with a completely open mind. I was with a group of strangers and there […]
Practicalities It’s all getting very real! I’ve had my technician session to specify my build for the degree show – with its new wall and a plinth to hide the projection kit, borrowed the projector, media player and long extension […]
So on this beautiful, sunny morning in Essex, England I’d like to share with you a picture of the drawing I am working on at the moment. I’ve been working on this for around 10-12 hours and am beginning to […]
