I’m at that stage where the unpicking of my practice has begun and trying to piece it back together; in the hope of revealing those key concepts and focal points. After my tutorial with Davida on Wednesday, we discussed how […]
Blog Notes. This work was one of the last pieces that I have made in my old studio at Martelsham Suffolk. It is now in the Exhibition at Pretty’s in Ipswich .This piece is made on the whole from found […]
Recently I went to a Dodge the Shredder workshop run by Emilia Telese for a-n.co.uk. I can say without a shadow of a doubt this is the best and most effective professional development training I have ever received. At the […]
This week’s selection includes an immersive audio-visual installation in Liverpool, painting in Glasgow and Middlesbrough, plus new video works in London.
Glasgow-based artist Ailie Rutherford has created The People’s Bank of Govanhill and is action-researching a new currency for the Govanhill community and running a crowdfunding campaign to print editioned notes designed by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd.
Two important parts of my life are beginning to come together. My Summer’s spent in Barcelona in my grandmother’s (Abuela’s) flat as a child, and my oh so recent diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome. My adoration of this sacred space – […]
Its time to keep telling this story. I know its going to be a struggle to translate the last few weeks into something clear and coherent, hence the gin and tonic again. In my last post I was rambling through […]
Another collage using discarded pieces of work, ghost prints and tracings, cut up or torn and re-ordered. The fragments are parts of a disjunctive narrative, brought together in a way that “feels right”.
It is exactly a year now since Cosmo died and I have not got another dog. The commitment to dog ownership is massive and I have not had a knee jerk reaction into replacing the hole left by his passing, […]
I’m currently making work about the plight of refugees stuck in Northern France, articulating my concern for those ‘living’ in dreadful conditions from a child’s perspective. I have made a child’s coat in paper form which attempts to express the […]
Framing my piece, Inherited, has proved as tricky as expected. After several sleepless nights, paper conservator and framer Deborah Colam and I did finally manage to get all the paper cutouts placed on the backing board with additional help from […]
This shows theory about making wormholes, generating social conversation and is like making portals to different locations, being able to see their whole bodies more rather than just texting or doing phone calls.
Hello there, I’ve just finished around six hours of drawing and I have been positively fizzing, sometimes the lines and marks feel almost preprogrammed as if already drawn and then only to be transcripted onto another surface. As anyone who […]
Had a bit of a lull in creativity due to necessary preparation of the next stage in my career. With plans of going into teaching and therefore the need to study for a PGCE qualification, I have, over the last […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here As my Mum would have said, “There’s no side to Sonia Boué” This is very true. Sonia is easy company. Words are thoughtful, carefully used. Sometimes slow and deliberate and serious, sometimes fast and animated […]
With the longer and brighter days comes a more focused me and a clarity after what feels like a winter long spring clean, by clean I mean clear out mostly! The garden is getting more attention since Christmas. Meetings about […]
A mix of exhibitions, symposia and performances from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section.
