Kaavous has done a great job installing our research material in the Making Space show. A level row of bulldog clips runs round the large gallery so that photographs and drawings can be hung and added to. The only other […]
Archive of sketchbooks, studies relating to key works, designs for book covers, letters and childhood drawings permanently allocated to National Portrait Gallery.
Universal Credit is a new benefit that is designed to support people who are on a low income or out of work. This guide by financial services experts Counterculture explains how Universal Credit is calculated and how it may impact those who are self-employed.
A group exhibition of newly-commissioned photography has opened at Jerwood Space London, enabled by the inaugural Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Tim Clark speaks to Photoworks director, Celia Davies, about the impetus for setting up this joint programme and what the various bodies of work might reveal about the new generation of practitioners.
I have arrived in Xiamen. It is so nice to be back. As soon as I landed I was instructed to take a taxi to C-Platform. I did not know at the time, but there was an exhibition opening that […]
“They looked like silver birds. The sun was shining on them…”, silverpoint on gesso on boards, 30cm x 107cm I’m going to be showing this work in a group exhibition in Margate. I’ve exhibited it before (it was in The […]
What updates are there with my Chinese and English illness sculpture? Well… the good news is that I have managed to come by some nice used bricks from the construction site right next to the suffolk college. They were renovating […]
This was my journey to work this morning, following the road as it winds around the voes and cliffs to get to Skeld primary school, over on the western mainland. It was a grey, breaking day, the wind is back […]
So in the last few months I have been planning and working up to making some bigger pieces and the first piece was completed today. In this piece the scale is significant as a reflection on commercial marketing and the […]
Scottish Artists’ Union and Artists’ Union England call on the Department for Work & Pensions to revoke Universal Credit and implement a more workable welfare system.
A London-based French artist’s response to Friday night’s terrorist attacks in Paris has become a symbol of solidarity.
Butterflies are wonderfully beautiful and utterly intriguing . Mat Collishaw’s work with butterflies is stunning and takes my understanding of these creatures to a new level. I have just been to a major exhibition of his work at The New […]
This week’s selection includes installation work in London, minimalism in Edinburgh and an exploration of language in Glasgow.
This guide lists UK arts councils whose role is to support, encourage and enable arts activities nationally and regionally and to widen public participation in the arts.
Task 1 – Chairman Mao layer 3 to be completed Yes… there has been at least a two week delay in printing my third layer for my Chairman Mao print as the uni’s photo emulsion does no longer work… So… […]
The Fish Van Collection is on its way, tomorrow we are off to Skeld primary school to do a sculpture workshop with the children, all 17 of them. So far I have made 7 boxes which will start the collection, […]
Why look into Carsten Holler’s sculptural works? Carsten Holler likes to make sculptures primarily in sets of two or three which involves ready-made objects to help create his big sculptures. I wanted to look into him because I feel that […]
Why look into Damien Hirst? I wanted to look into his use of ready-made objects that help create his sculptural works such as the inside workings of his human representations and the animals. Also I wanted to look into the […]
Why look into Jeff Koons? I wanted to look into Jeff Koons because of in my latest illness sculpture called ‘The possibility workings of inside a working man’ is a sculpture made from ready-made objects. This is why I wanted […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I have often asked, of specific people, and of the world, through social media, “How do people cope with the world if they aren’t artists?” It is a genuine question, as my response to […]
