The artist-led space in Bethnal Green, founded in 2004 by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, is fighting to retain its space as developers bid for its home of nine years.
This week’s selection includes a reflection on obsolete technology in London, an exploration of fiction and alternative realities in Nottingham, and found objects and immersive environments in Oxford.
Task 1 – Organise my 4 chosen stencil prints ready for Pretty’s Exhibition *(Mandatory)* Yes… this is my task of the week to try and get all 4 of my chosen prints ready for the upcoming pretty’s exhibition for 14th […]
As time passes I feel that my experience of my practice seems to feel more intense to me. I suppose this is partially down to the impending formative assessment and also the weekly development of new skills within the workshops. […]
Huge sleety hailstones the size of large peas coming over in squalls, covering the ground within seconds, this is 3pm in the afternoon, dark, not really getting light, in between bright sunny breaks in the cloud. Walked to the top […]
Musings on the life of my paintings
Austmarka | 2 degrees | dull am not the first up tho’ its not late visit Joker (the village shop) to stock up not much green stuff here mooch around in search of tasty stuff alien floaty things in jars […]
I’ve been eating a lot of fruit. Not so good for my sugar intake but the fruit in Xiamen is amazing. It’s currently passion fruit season. The passion fruits are not like the expensive shrivelled ones we get in the […]
All the herring stations at Lerwick in the early part of the 20th century.
I feel like my mind is working like one of those films that don’t start in the beginning…or the end… or the middle really. Just snippets are put together in the hope of it all making sense. The last three weeks […]
Austmarka | 10 degrees | dull eat breakfast without 2 sweaters and a scarf it’s almost warm faff around with this and that write out a daily plan make soup using up sad looking veg the sky presses down outside […]
What has happened with my recent fourth Mao layer? Well… It seems that last Friday gone I was attempting to try print out my fourth layer of Mao but something came up with this layer in particular… The size […]
Drawing workshop with the 1st year BA textiles students at Shetland college, looking at structures and drawing from fishing objects.
Major art biennial exhibition
Have trimmed my obligations to make way for concentrating more on the essentials of making work and keeping afloat. Have given myself a horrible ultimatum, which is If I haven’t done x, y and z by this time next year […]
Since coming to Stoke, inevitably, much of my thinking has been about ceramics. I read Emma Bridgewater’s Toast & Marmalade which got me thinking about the perfect pairing of dishes to meals and ceramic pieces with the ability to transfer […]
Hot off the press. Finally got my booklets back from the printers – a guide to my chive planting project in Berlin. Now just need to get them to everyone I know in the city and some stockists!
The second workshop in the a-n Writer Development Programme took place at Manchester’s newest arts venue, Home, on Wednesday 28 October 2015. The afternoon session was led by Frieze magazine reviews editor Amy Sherlock and the focus was on reviewing […]
Kongsvinger | minus 2 degrees | v. foggy up at six to catch the only bus ..a yellow one to town sitting in the warm we quietly trundle through black pine forests past dark, glassy lakes and brittle bogs illuminated […]
