Visitors to Bob and Roberta Smith’s show at William Morris Gallery have been leaving postcards calling for London’s prospective mayoral candidates to sign up to arts education pledge.
In 2014 I was awarded an a-n Re:view Bursary to support the critical and artistic development of my work. I met three arts professionals who offered advice on my then current projects. This article is a summary of the impact the advice had on the development of two key projects.
Highlights for the week ahead selected from our busy Events section and featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n’s members.
Apologies for doing so many blog posts this month…its a novelty having so much ‘free’ time, and subsequently, because of this extra time, I’m able to involve myself in so many projects. I left the last post about to attend […]
The subject of posture was been around in my practice thinking for a number of years – 10 years or more – which means I have a collection of research articles that I have found and been given. Someone gave […]
If you see the date in the Diary (The Red Book) you will understand the inspiration that got me thinking about this idea. This work was created out of me thinking about how much I hated reading at school. I […]
As you can see from the photos, I started out this project by writing out words and sentences onto A4 paper. The reason I did this is because I wanted to get an idea of how they would look […]
Exploring the strength of women v vulnerability. I have difficulty expressing the Energy of power, I am trying to use more straight lines rather than curved Moving away from reality to express reality Francis Bacon
How was my concepts and contexts presentation? To be honest with what I wanted to say was rather what I thought nail pushing because I hardly got the chance to explain myself too much as I was put on the […]
My recent interest in Image Studies has led me to consider iconoclasm in greater detail by reading Bruno Latour’s introductory essay to the exhibition catalogue for ‘Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art’. I first thought about […]
Philippe Parreno has been announced as the second artist in the annual Hyundai Commission series for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
Or the Little show that could. I have learnt something so it might be of interest to other artists. ‘Undercover Flipbooks’. This was a show in Darlington library where I commissioned 12 artists to create flip animations in a book […]
Looking back on my learning agreement, what has changed since then? I do feel that I was a bit mind boggled at first with what I really wanted to do so my ideas were really a rough plan. At first […]
What have I looked into? The Decontextualisation and recontextualisation of materials and objects in some artists works hark back to Dada and the surrealist whereby additional and unplanned associations are generated by new juxtaposition. In this, the objects for example […]
What have I looked at? An example of proximity and defamiliarization is found with another example of Wim Delvoye’s works called ‘Sybille II. The term proximity means nearest and also means approximate and is used as an artistic term for […]
What theorists have I looked into? Afterwardsness is the concept that an earlier event in someone’s life can later acquire a meaning. The memories of someone’s mind are repressed which has only become a trauma after the event took place. […]
Who have I looked into? Another Artist who uses the everyday objects to address experiences is Louise Bourgeois who is renowned for extracting fragments of her traumatic past into her works. In particular with the Cells Installations – Eyes and […]
Who have I looked into? The Dada movement started in Zurich in Germany and the artists, intellectuals and writers were furious with the modern society. So they decided to show their protest through artistic medium and decided to create non-art […]
Who have I looked into? Hans Peter Feldmann is a visual artist who moves in the universe of the everyday. he takes from the universe the materials, objects and images along with themes. He states that all his work is […]
Why look into Tracey Emin? Tracey Emin is an British artist who recreates her past through objects to make her art work. Looking at Emin’s my bed within the horizontal view of the photograph, it seems inhabited with recognisable used […]
I spent a lot of time pen at the ready trying desperately to understand where I was going wrong during the most of my first semester of this year. It wasn’t until I referred back to the project I was […]
