Austmarka | 1-3 degrees | sunny day three 21/11/2015 ~ rags24 ~ Edit Austmarka | 1-3 degrees | sunny looking at the maps can’t tell which way round we are the sun is shining brightly through the birch trees outside […]
I am currently investigating incongruous, luck and loneliness within public spaces, Gulliver looks through tunnel vision at the world but the presence of the uncanny explores the Incongruous, which soon changes into loneliness. My use of props teeters on the […]
MILK up to 1 month Fee – None Travel – None Accommodation – None Expectations- North East based artist. Make work in gallery space http://www.mmmilk.co.uk/about Resartist, Open Roads, 3 weeks Fee – None Travel – None Accommodation – $750 Expectations […]
Workshop at the Shetland college with a group of adults with learning difficulties, we made plaster casts of found ‘sea+fishing’ objects. Demonstrating making an impression into the clay of a piece of knotted fishing nets.
The past week has passed by incredibly fast! We have the first formative assessment of the course on the 9th of December, and as it draws near the time seems to pass faster! I seem to have an ever growing […]
Kongsvinger | 3 degrees | cloudy back at the Sentralstasjon hot coffee in hand all about are padded and muffled grey and black matt and flat gloves and hats + hiking boots the train travels smoothly out of the city […]
Oslo | 0 degrees | fog arriving in Oslo at the airport – all pale wood and clean lines along the windowed corridor and emerging from the downward escalators in small groups we hold up our passports one by one […]
An exhibition of metal point work at arthouse1 Bermondsey by Susan Schwalb and Erika Winstone.
A short residency,
in a cold place,
a rickety bus ride
from the nearest town.
Time to think, to make,
to rethink, to remake,
time to wander and ponder
dark lakes + dense forests.
Reading + drawing,
writing + filming,
listening + looking
at Atelier Austmarka
People are getting creative when finding exhibition venues. The Wardrobe is an alternative project space based in the University of Northampton. The brainchild of Billy Hawes, it’s a place for artists to test ideas, develop their practice through exhibition and […]
I’m back in the foundry; an environment I feel most at home in. I don’t know what it is about the foundry that I’m drawn to; the heat, the possibility of danger, the process, the fact that it is associated […]
That quiet pathway that leads to home. The flowers that fall upon the ground. The lovely little café around the corner. The city is the place where dreams begin. The beach in the cold winter light, the ground wallpaper of […]
How did the third layer of Chairman Mao finally come out? Umm… I have to say that this third time round of attempting to print the third layer of Chairman Mao has finally payed off very well… I could not […]
This is not what I had planned for my second covert artist residency. However, sometimes layers of coincidences occur that really have to be acknowledged and given in to. I was going to go for something like a technical museum, […]
The Antiuniversity Now! festival is taking place in London and across the UK this weekend, offering an alternative to what its founders describe as ‘the creeping marketisation of education’. Co-organiser Shiri Shalmy explains why she believes traditional academia needs to be challenged.
In September I took a trip to Sweden, and brought with me printed and cut out Facsimile boxes, adding a glue stick in my case. I made them up in my hotel room and took them out to find places […]
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
PiLOT Performance 17/11/2015 Tuesday night I performed for an event held at university called PiLOT. The figure interacts with the audience, giving out a total of 30 umbrellas, followed by 30 bottles of plain water, the third prop a paper head […]
Doreen Massey’s, ‘For Space’, chapter 11 ‘Slices through Space’. Maps, Massey writes present space as a surface that is both complete and closed, they provide ‘an order in things’(1), and allow us to find where we are and the route […]
I’m lovin’ it……….exclaimed Blake from primary year 1-3 today in the workshop at Lunnasting school, I feel the same. Spent the morning at the primary school in Vidlin, a north mainland hamlet which is also the ferry terminal for getting […]
What new updates do I have for the chairman mao Print? Well… actually this time after waiting quite a long time to get the third layer stencil prepared, I have now managed to get a successful third layer done in […]
What latest updates have I produced for my illness sculpture? I have managed to make a very interesting start with this project as I have managed to get hold of some more materials which crosses off one of my tasks […]
On the 24th September 2015 I attended The Betjeman Society’s meeting: John Betjeman Saving Churches. Here are some notes from the two presentations by the Churches Conservation Trust & the National Churches Trust. John Betjeman enthusiasm and importance for the English parish church. Love […]
In the latest in our series of picture-focused articles we take a look at the One and All digital project, featuring artists Martyn Ware, Tania Kovats and Owen Sheers.
While I was in Southern India, I thought it would be useful to visit some galleries of modern art to see some alternative histories to the British artistic canon. As I was in Bangalore, I had the chance to visit […]
