I’ve decided we’re going to blog every day whilst our crowdfunding campaign is running on indiegogo. So the latest update is we have reached 4% of our funding goal in the first day. If we keep going at that […]
25 artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Jeremy Deller and Grayson Perry donate work for auction to raise money for organisation working to improve access to culture for disabled people.
facebook and Twitter can be such time wasters but occasionally it all seems worthwhile. I came across a great interview with Ian McKeever which someone had recommended http://bcove.me/2059jrq6 Hope that’s a link – I don’t understand links??? […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The project in my head that concerns chairs is on the back burner. I don’t have the space at the moment to explore it. It will get done, but not here at home, and not […]
“For me England stands for the Church of England, eccentric incumbents, oil-lit churches, women’s institutes, modest village inns, arguments about cow parsley on the altar….” John Betjeman, Coming Home, BBC Broadcast.
The Islington Mill Art Academy in Salford has been providing a free alternative to mainstream art education since 2007. Sara Jaspan speaks to its co-founder, Maurice Carlin, and gets the views of artists who’ve taken part in the Academy’s ever-evolving investigation of what art education can be.
For a recovering agoraphobic, perfectionist with M.E. this project is starting to get to me. Too much to do. It’s all taking 2-3 times longer than I had planned, my energy levels are on about 20% and I haven’t even […]
Here’s a link to the Met Museums free library of downloadable Art history books.
Yesterday I had a bone marrow biopsy (BMB) to assess the development of my blood cancer, and as usual I thought of recording (photographing) the procedure for my art however typically this idea only came to me as a flash […]
The Swedish tax system requires that all companies complete regular VAT returns. In the UK I was self-employed rather than a company and had an income well below the VAT threshold. Where as here I am an ‘Enskild firma’ – […]
Gillian, L-B, Untitled, 2016, [Oil on wood] 1000 x 1500 cm This painting underwent many transformations. Various squeegees were used to make and merge marks, to blend colours and to differentiate areas of the board. To begin with I used […]
Above you can see the finished out come of the prints I designed last year. I enjoyed the use of colour and felt confident in the use of one screen as I felt the way the paint fell onto the […]
I put a film in my purse and discovered that I could take it on a journey. I could walk across lines with my ‘torch’, project my film, be anywhere and nowhere. I did not need to ask…I could allow […]
I finally finished a painting on ‘Paradise’ that I had been working on for ages. It wouldn’t be paradise if one doesn’t like pink, obviously! I suppose they are evangelistic works, trying to engage people with spiritual issues, in answer […]
I recently finished an abstract painting of ‘Eden’, part of a series trying to look afresh at spiritual ideas, re-interpreting the ideas for the twenty-first century. I haven’t had much feedback about it, it took a long time to do, […]
‘A Film in My Purse…’ A new research journey, using performance as process, untethered projections, and a mobile phone projector, in Mostar, Sarajevo, Tirana and Athens, launched 2015. Exploring border, encounter, intimacy, and the city…
Last year, I gave a talk about my life at a Meet-up event to an audience of about 80 people. There were many things I was excited to share with the people there, like the time I lived in Japan, […]
I booked Long Street studio yesterday and I am so pleased with the outcome! Having used the studio last week I knew I wanted to frame my subject slightly differently and I also realised why I was not overly pleased […]
Arts Council England is inviting the arts and culture sector to participate in a ‘conversation’ about its future investments for 2018 onwards.
What does it mean to be an artist and how does the romantic idea of the creative individual pursuing their passion impact on the reality of an artistic practice? At Creative Scotland’s recent Visual Arts Sector Review event in Edinburgh, Glasgow-based artist Rachel Maclean talked about this and more. Here we republish an edited extract of her provocation.
The Black Path is an ancient route. It has been many things: the northern boundary of an Anglian Kingdom, a medieval sailor’s trod, and a convenient path to work for the steelworkers of Middlesbrough. It is a nominal, barely remembered […]
