
Ambition for Excellence funds arts festivals in Cornwall and Thames Estuary
Visual arts organisations Metal and Cornubian Arts and Science Trust receive a share of £3m to create new arts festivals.
Visual arts organisations Metal and Cornubian Arts and Science Trust receive a share of £3m to create new arts festivals.
Clara Casian reflects on her responsibility towards her adopted city and its interconnected web of possibilities Jamboree provided me with a good knowledge on how people and places operate outside my area. I lived in Manchester for a few years […]
The sea has a kind of creamy light cast over it in the winter, but only on clear days. being mostly in rain and cloud among the mountains means that the occasional visit to the coast is certain as it […]
With cuts of £700,000 being proposed by Cardiff Council, the city’s arts community are urging concerned supporters to complete the soon-to-close public survey and sign the ongoing 38degrees petition.
What updates do I have with my Chinese and English Illness Drawings? I wanted to have a go at playing around with these images on photoshop because I am thinking about printing them through silkscreen using nice black ink and […]
The death of David Bowie is a loss to both music and visual culture.
This week’s selection includes Japanese shojo (girls’) manga in Southport, early Mondrian in London and an exploration of the collateral objects that feed the creative process in Ipswich.
Artist Ellie Harrison’s year-long Glasgow Effect project has attracted widespread outrage on social media and in the national press, with many accusing her of ‘poverty tourism’. Julie McCalden makes a case for a more nuanced response to the project and argues the case for more, not less, public funding for the arts.
I’m back home, back to normal life and getting on with all the things I have planned for this year. It’s very easy to loose the feeling of being part of a different culture and get back to your old […]
I’ve been looking at artists that reference film within their work in an attempt to understand why I use film within my work and what role it plays within my work. I know that I really like the idea of […]
I have been reading Grayson Perry’s ‘Playing To The Gallery’ which is fascinating reading, there is a whole science to selling work and being part of a ‘scene’. By being more lucrative and proactive in getting custom, that will be […]
I have so many works on the go it’s hard to keep up with them. So I am contemplating on a better platform to selling work here in Ipswich and the kinds of agency required to sell work and give them esteem. This blog documents a number of challenges in making good things happen.
What do other members think about Giclée prints? Is it wrong to make a Giclée print of 25 then call it a limited edition for what is essentially a commercial inkjet process? Does it undermine the artists’ who use traditional […]
One on Christmas Eve and the other on New Years Eve 2015. Christmas Eve: It felt like walking in spring, the sun was out my jacket too warm and the wild flowers were out! The first thing I saw was […]
if you’ve dived into any previous posts of mine, you’ll already be aware that at times i struggle to put into words what i’ve been feeling of late at the time of writing. usually in this situation my writing becomes […]
There’s heap of washing to do, the Christmas tree and decs are dumped on the spare room bed still, the dogs have left a trail of mud through from the garden and my kitchen table is piled high with tools and […]
As applications for this year’s Clore leadership programme open, a-n announces the first ever dedicated Visual Artist Fellowship.
On the 07/01/2015 I performed Rock, paper, Scissors for Breeze Creatives in Newcastle, for an exhibition called Act without Expectation curated by Jade Currie. (http://breezecreatives.com/abject-gallery/act-without-expectation). Figures 1-4 display the opening moments to the performance much like The Garage (Fig 5), […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Sometimes I have to get away… I looked at the chatter about the event on facebook and thought “oh I wish I lived closer then I’d go!” But then it occurred to me that I […]