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Comprehensive new study: Artists’ Livelihoods survey needs your views

Launching today, a-n is a lead partner in a comprehensive survey into how visual artists in England live and work, part of a new Arts Council England research project that will shape future support and initiatives for artists. Take part and share your views on the day-to-day realities of being a professional artist and the challenges and barriers you face.

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Where is Here ?

  Where is here? Massey (2008) in her book ‘Space’ suggests that it can be hard to know where we are when everything is moving.  We move in a moving world.  We discover where we are through an ongoing  process […]

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Pencil drawing

Today I’ve been working on a pencil sketch of Goya’s Great deeds! Against the dead!, this time I’ve redacted the bodies. Not so much erased but simply missing, leaving a virgin white space where they should be. This image by […]

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Day 5

Post by Kay I have been busy in the studio for the past few weeks designing the new Shetland flora series for the exhibition. My first action was to go through all the microscope photographs I took whilst in residency […]

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Like and Share if You agree!

The previous two years have been mainly about process for me. Experimenting with different media and seeing what works for me. Going into my third and final year, I’ve begun to select subject matter which I feel strongly emoted by. […]

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#Projection 2 Spanish Square, Mostar, Bosnia

A twenty minute walk to Spanish Square, a peace  garden, open space as monument. An act of remembrance after the civil war. Looking for re alignment in unknown place, positioning myself in places of cultural and political shift, and listening… […]

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Untitled blog post from "Keeping It Going"

The For What It’s Worth group show in South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford continues until February 28th. The booklet published alongside the exhibition contains some fascinating anecdotes from artists in response to the show’s theme around value and worth and […]

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Parapossibilities…

I’ve just finished an ink sketch of Goya’s plate 39 (minus casualties) and I thought I’d add it to my blog. I found it tricky filling in behind the missing bodies as the tree didn’t seem to add up, for […]

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Day 3/4

My first thought is that I have already broken my self-imposed rule for blogging every day. The good news is we gained an extra 3 (significant) pledges yesterday and are now up to 8 % of our target – which […]

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Suffering for my Art – again

 AUDIOBLOG – Please click here A couple of years ago I nearly killed myself having allergic reaction to the wool fibres of the ww2 army greatcoat I was cleaning up ready to work on for “Colonize”. I dived in, brushing […]

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