Nationalism = Dangerous What is Englishness? Is this question relevant now? What is the difference between Englishness and Britishness? Why do people find it important to define Englishness/Britishness? Is it important to have a national identity? Is Englishness cultural? Is […]
This is a collection of articles talking about possible alternatives to the traditional Art College route in to being a professional artist. Collected from the A.N site. Also about Artist lead initiatives and Education ideas generally.
We are delighted to announce that our first ever crowdfunding campaign has gone live today on indiegogo (trumpets and drum roll please…) We are offering some fantastic rewards (or “perks” as they are called) to our backers and we urge […]
Matt Price curated a two person show I was part of at The Nunnery in Bow. I was excited to show him my newest work since it was almost two years since we first worked together. I also wanted to […]
Art-life continues after all: time for starting over, time for looking back. I am delighted to have been invited to contribute to this upcoming exhibition at a glorious space: COUNTER_FITTERS at Geddes Gallery curated by Sasha Bowles, Rosalind Davis, Evy Jokhova […]
Owners of pioneering Dadaist Kurt Schwitters’ last remaining Merzbau project call on Arts Council England and Tate to help rescue badly damaged site.
I have decided to work with one of the collectable books; I thought it would be a good idea to take another visit to the woodwork studio and to see what I could do there. I thought it would be […]
The term “slipstreaming” describes an object travelling inside of another object. Eukaryotic cell cycle cells need nutrients from the environment for development -DNA replication -Histones -Duplicate copies
Alongside my current exhibition and Kickstarter campaign, I was interested in visiting Yorkshire Sculpture Park to see the KAWS exhibition. Fellow LAN artist Sam Bartlett and I discussed it, and he texted to suggest Sunday to go. So, wading through […]
If you are an artist or arts organisers who earns income from a variety of sources, self-employment is usually a good option as it enables you to work for many different people and perform more than one type of work. This guide by financial services experts Counterculture explains what self-employment means, how to register as self-employed, and how and when you will need to pay tax.
On a wild windswept day I drove to Margate to see the exhibition by Rose Wylie. I had read good things about this but honestly couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. The best thing there was a lovely […]
Now in its fourth year, the New Art West Midlands exhibition showcases the work of 43 recent graduates from universities in the region, presented across four venues in Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton. Cathy Wade reports from mac and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Having the opportunity to sit down and discuss my work with André outside of assessment time was hugely beneficial in realising what I have ahead of me with regards to developing current work. I found it useful to seek advice […]
Been thinking about the digital world we live in. Every time I get on the train I look around and see practically every person engaging in some way with their phone: listening to music, playing games, checking email, some even […]
This week has led me to the realisation of how materials and the human form; in my tutorial with Judit we discussed what my exact context for the work is and the interests that engage the work. Is it the […]
As lots of my work deals with ice, the melting of the planets ice caps are an issue that must be mentioned when looking at the context within my sculpture work.
Franko B performs a lot of pieces using his body and blood, the audience for these pieces see his performance as the artwork, however, the documentation of these performances become the artwork for other viewers not able to attend such […]
Got new business cards delivered in the post.
my work refers to temporary mediums using materials such as ice and fire as these only last a set amount of time and are constantly changing. i document my work using lens based media focusing on photography and looking at […]
For this week’s selection of UK exhibitions, we check out a show that seeks to make the intangible visible in Cambridge, drop in on the latest iteration of the British Art Show 8 in Edinburgh, and find out if computers really can imitate human thought in Manchester.
Irish artist Gerard Byrne is known for film installations that deal with the presentation, manipulation and perception of narratives. For his show at Warwick Arts Centre he’s premiering a new work filmed with one unbroken panning shot in Stockholm’s Biologiska Museet. He talks to Anneka French about location, light and methods of display.
