Alice Cunningham’s solo exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, includes new works in marble developed while she was recipient of the 2014 Brian Mercer Stone Carving Residency in Pietrasanta, Italy. She speaks to Pippa Koszerek about how she worked with a specialist stone carving studio to create the four works included in the show.
After reading an interesting article here, about the Natural History Museum and their Spirit Collections, I saw they were running tours open to the public, and I knew it would be something I definitely needed to see. I certainly was […]
A Performance Lecture by Theaster Gates, part of the Sanctum Programme by Situations Bristol
So far, this week feel’s busy and hectic. I’m currently researching for my PHD and the whole application process, finding information and contacts of supervisors that I can contact to whom have a connection with my areas of interest and […]
Time is moving along briskly, and there is much to do, people to meet and there is only 5 weeks until I need to pull together the 3 proposals for the sculpture. Mild panic arrived today, or maybe more a […]
Tomorrow we are off to Heidelberg to see Agnes Richter’s jacket at the University. They have agreed to get it out of the archives for me. The thought of being there with her jacket is very emotive. She was committed […]
What latest updates have I found with my second Chairman Mao layer? I manage to get my printing technician to print out my second layer for me for my chairman mao image and it manage to turn out very nice. […]
Review of new work by Simon Lee Dicker in response to a residency at the Twineworks in West Coker
Over the next month, Sluice_ will be posting video footage of its recent talks programme which took place during Sluice_2015 in London, and looked at a diverse range of topics including public art, copyright and the abstract revival.
I have been completely inactive on this blog since returning to the studio after the Aarhus exhibition. This is down to a couple of things: first a holiday with the family after the show, then after returning to the studio, […]
Liverpool-based artist Emma Sumner reports from two recent community arts focused events in the city, a Temporary Parliament tasked with selecting the winner of the 25,000 Euro Visible Award for ‘socially engaged practices in a global context’, and a conference organised by Liverpool Biennial which looked to learn from the legacy of community arts projects in the light of a renewed interest in socially engaged art.
It’s been 5 months since my last post. I’ve been stuck for things to write about and away for a lot of the summer. Now seems to be as good time as any to resurrect the blog as I now […]
Took some time out of the studio on Friday and went down to Cardiff Bay to catch the Diffusion exhibitions that were exhibited in BayArt, Cory’s Building, Third Floor Gallery, Wales Millennium Centre and Norwegian Church. The quality and concept […]
Shetland either bewitches you or you never want to return someone said to me this morning and today was a bewitching day, it cast it’s magic, the land was lit by the late afternoon sun, showing the black scarring of […]
I’ve been so caught up with the Make Something Happen meeting I’ve not been preparing for going to China very well. The meeting was really good. Lots of people came and they all seemed very nice; at least, they gave […]
Following my tutorial with Judit which I wrote about in my previous blog post I found that in trying to untangle my thoughts I was in fact making the tangled knot of thoughts even worse. I began going through the […]
Frustrated that huge photographic work wasn’t communicated accurately when shown online, artist David Anthony Hall decided to create Gallery One2fifty. If I adopted his tactics, I’d build a 1:50 scale model of a gallery, make mini examples of my work […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I once overheard someone say that it was impossible to be a serious artist and a mother. The horrified listener asked sarcastically “can I have a cat?” And the answer came “ideally, no”. I am […]
This week’s selection includes the launch of Bloc Projects new gallery space, Margaret Harrison’s political installations in Middlesbrough and minimalist sculpture in Belfast.
For his first major commission in the UK, Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has created an installation in the grounds of a disused church in Bristol that will be alive with performances and discussion day-and-night for 552 hours. Rowan Lear reports from the opening weekend.
I had the amazing opportunity to attend Frieze Art Fair on October 16th, thanks to the Artist Development programme (run by Turning Point West Midlands in partnership with the New Art Gallery Walsall)! My travel costs and ticket to the […]
