Stepper motor with timing belt
Beginning to work with controlling speed of a timing belt I intend to attach different items to the belt to emphasise movement
Beginning to work with controlling speed of a timing belt I intend to attach different items to the belt to emphasise movement
I met Skye in 2011 when I was selected for the Jerwood Painting Fellowships. She came to my first ever studio in Hackney, an ex-Victorian warehouse with gigantic windows and high ceilings, perfect for making large paintings. Back then I […]
The Syllabus is a nomadic artist development programme billed as an alternative to formal art education. At its half-way stage, Anneka French speaks to the project’s organisers, artist Andy Holden and Wysing Arts Centre, and to two of the ten participating artists.
Yesterday I found myself filming the process of my work; continuously recording me in a space engaging and surrounded by my work. I was playing with how the work can interact with one another and the surrounded space; manipulating their positions […]
I went to the National Gallery Early Renaisance Galleries (No51 to 65) to look for food imagery as a way of exploring the history of ideas about food and in particular friuit. So what do you find on such a […]
Kate Murdoch wins the fourth annual Shape Open with her sculpture Bad Head Day, inspired by the muddle and confusion that being partially deaf can cause.
It’s been a while since I wrote my last blog – December and January seemed to pass me by. It got me a thinking about 2015 and what I felt I learnt and achieved in respect to my art practice. […]
Today I have brought in the three pieces of copper that I had left outside for approximately two months. I love them! The copper is very thin and because of this, the wind creased it up into different shapes. There […]
The Shape Open 2016 exhibition which opened on the evening of Thursday February 4th at the Guest Projects space in Hackney, was a memorable night for me. ‘Bad Head Day‘ – the piece of work I searched high and low […]
The National Society for Education in Art and Design’s Survey Report 2015-16 states that in the last five years government policies in England have impacted not only on the value of the subject, but on the time and resources needed for children and young people to participate and excel in art, craft and design.
Things I have bubbling away, in no particular order, these are Text invading physical world & the physical world invading the textual world: Text invading garden at The Print Shed Blog to song…link to Tim Dallings recording of my words. […]
Today was a really productive day in Long Street Photography studio! After looking at Plutchik’s ‘Wheel of Emotions’ I decided I wanted to experiment with my own wheel of emotions through the exploration of facial expressions. I had the idea […]
I went on a walk a few months ago and found some items on the way. I’ve had them sitting on my shelf not knowing what to do with them. I’ve been wanting to get back into practicing digital drawing […]
I heard a talk by artist Donna Fleming recently which made a few key things fall into place. She talked about how crucial it is to follow what feels exciting in one’s work rather than worrying about what you THINK […]
Is anyone aware of grants/funding available for individual artists? There are a wide range of funding opportunities on offer, from numerous private and publicly financed organisations, with amounts varying from a few hundred pounds to over £100k, providing you are […]
In March 2015 I received a bursary to pay for mentoring with writer and curator George Vasey
I have started Etching, using aluminium plates. 1) I take the plate and remove all the rough edges. 2) Clean the oil of the plate using chalk dust and vinegar. 3) Varnish the plate 4) Etch the image into the […]
In the latest in her series on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman looks ahead to this year’s Artists’ BookMarket at Fruitmarket Gallery and picks out some highlights.
I’ve got the open call blues. Well, no not really. Frankly open calls are always one step away from a shut door so you get used to it. Throwing your time and effort into an open call is the lot […]
The artist and professor in Fine Arts, Sonia Boyce, is leading a three-year AHRC-funded research project into British Black artists and modernism in the 20th century. She talks to Laura Robertson about why the work needs to be done and what she hopes to achieve.