Community engagement at a nursery
Review of the Digital Performance Weekender at Watermans November 2015
It’s been a busy and fruitful year for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists campaign, with plenty of activity across the UK and internatioanally. Paying Artists Project Manager Julie McCalden looks back over 2015.
Situated on a rubble-strewn plot opposite Glasgow’s Tramway, Pollokshields Playhouse is opening its gates for film screenings in a shipping container, storytelling and soup made over an open fire. Richard Taylor visits the Albert Drive site to hear more about this community project.
It really is like a monastic life at the moment, replacing the prayer with work, get up, work, short walk, more work, eat, work, short walk, eat, work, sleep, going nowhere, hardly talking to anyone apart from people I pass […]
I have started to think more about my hybrids and specimens more in depth, as while I enjoy drawing them I want to start to explore them more fully. One example of this is how they reproduce. Spores instantly sprung […]
The renowned American artist is to donate one impression of all future prints created in his lifetime to Tate.
Shetland ponies, made me think about something da lassies, the herring gutters from Whalsay told me about when they were working in Lowestoft and the cooper called them ‘his Shetland ponies’ ! Working constantly at getting the proposals together, it […]
What have I managed to churn out this time? Yes! as previously mentioned in the last post, I have been working on my latest 3 images of scenery and in one image the still life of objects but may not […]
I’ve posted snippets of a few of these drawings here before, but I thought I’d post them all together now that I’ve taken quality scans of them! These are some of the drawings I’ve been working on for my project, […]
Six a-n writers – based in Glasgow, Manchester and London – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions of the year.
43 participants including adults and children 33 General Public 10 Artists/Creatives Point 1 – Suitcase People where asked if they wanted an International or Domestic residency and noted their responses on luggage labels. The scores for this where International […]
How is public art funded? Where is public art happening? Why do we value about public art? ixia requires your views for its fourth annual survey.
While this was a little while ago now, I still want to post about it on my blog! Marking the midway point of my residency, I had a window exhibition at the gallery from November 16th to 23rd. My plans […]
I was very lucky in that I was able to attend the talk given by artist Mat Collishaw at New Art Gallery Walsall in November. I booked it early and I’m glad I did now, as there was a massive […]
I haven’t updated in a while, it’s been a hectic month and a half! During that time I managed to visit the natural history stores at the Potteries museum and Art Gallery and examine some of the specimens there. It […]
What developments are there with making my latest images look less cheap? Well… I had a very hard think to myself over the weekend in how I will go about doing my two layers to make my scenery image look […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I was surprised that another artist was surprised when I insisted upon a certain level of professional conduct. It is, for me, another aspect to the Paying Artists campaign. If I behave as […]
Second pink object, in two days…….there is not a lot of pink in Shetland, although thinking about it, there are many pinks in the sky and on the water when the sun is setting, on a calm day, so maybe […]
I’m interested in how my project investigating the experience of the train journey from Marden to London could be interpreted if I read it from Marc Augé’s perspectives on non-places: For Augé, our modern-day environment has undergone such drastic changes […]
Knots lost and found. I have collected found knots for few years now, I love the way they tangle and the interweaving of the colours and textures. Decided to display it as a collector would so it creates a wall […]
This week’s selection includes a million objects at South London Gallery, an exploration of how social media is impacting on personal identity at Liverpool’s FACT, and a Bill Murray-inspired installation at BALTIC, Gateshead.
