I’ve recently completed a residency at the Shape Gallery in Stratford and it was a great opportunity to try out some new ideas. I set up with a mini studio for taking portraits, a flat-bed scanner for scanning hands, a […]
Women with whom I have discussed my recent work have preferred the fat and happy pictures much more than the thin and angry, fat and threatening etc. I feel I should consider this, as I don’t want to reinforce the […]
Exploring the different ways I can “break” an image.
New photo journal delivered today entitled Temporarium
Self-development is a focus for me this month. I am working through The Chimp Paradox by Prof Steve Peters which has come recommended by 2 artists I’ve spoken with recently. Finding it really helpful. (Got it for Midwinter – I […]
There is something about the creative process as I experience it, a process of collecting and bringing together which starts out quite chaotic and then clarifies as gradually distinctions and clarifications appear. So it is with water gilding: […]
Since the last post there has been half term, and that combined with pouring boiling water from the kettle onto my hand while cooking has meant this has been a week of very little art production. I’ve been doing […]
The government’s plans for the English Baccalaureate, or EBacc, remains an ominous presence for art departments across England, with many describing it as hugely detrimental to the teaching of creative subjects in schools. With a Department for Education consultation on its implementation looming, Lydia Ashman talks about its impact to campaigners and those on the frontline of art education.
To live is to move. How we move embodies our past and creates our future.
I was really pleased to receive an email at the start of the year to say that a piece of my work had been selected for the Shape Open 2016. The work is due to be delivered at the beginning […]
New Orleans-style jazz funeral procession will take place on 6 February to raise awareness of damage caused by Cardiff Council’s arts funding cuts.
Would you charge less for the giclee?!
It may come as no surprise that when adoptees are asked about their experiences, the same words and phrases are repeated over and over again. This is also evident from two books I have recently been browsing Being Adopted, The […]
Group research visit to Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen gallery, SIT trail and to meet exhibiting artists
A new term, new module and fresh start. The feedback I received from last term was brilliant, helpful and it’s always a bonus having a distinction to end the term with; regardless of the grade it always gives you that […]
Commissioning programme that supports disabled artists will use Ambition for Excellence Award to develop its international reach.
Arts organisations including South London Gallery and Cell Studios are among those to receive a share of a new £20m fund, which is tackling a shortage of affordable creative workspaces in the capital. Arts Professional’s Liz Hill reports.
As people entered the workshop space they were greeted with a new smell, the room had never smelt like this before: rosemary essential oil (clean and warming) and underneath that, in bowls of warm bubbly water, the scent of orange […]
It was a pleasure to meet up recently with Derek Latham at Lancaster West estate in North Kensington where I was community artist in residence. He worked for the architectural firm of Clifford Wearden and Associates in the late 1960s […]
The current chief curator of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris has been announced as director of the Venice Biennale 2017, with responsibility for curating the 57th International Art Exhibition.
Hi All, I am setting up an affordable art exhibition called “Meet the Artists” to platform emerging artists in London. Can you help? I am looking for funding? If anyone can suggest any. And a few more options for cheap […]
