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 […]
With the Assemblage exhibition coming to an end at AirSpace Gallery, the studio artists group discussed it, and several of us decided it would be a brilliant opportunity to move the Exhibition to the Original Spode factory site, Stoke-on-Trent, alongside […]
What is the outcome for the latest batch of prints? Well… I could say that it was pretty successful in the end using the new green colour that I mixed up and it seems to be the right colour this […]
Death inevitably rakes up a lot from the past – all those universal feelings associated with loss and mourning, as well as forcing us to face our own mortality. Besides the obvious issues that come up when thinking about the […]
Exploring the compositional possibilities for the work has enabled for new possiblilites for how the work can involve the space more. Viewing the wall as more than a place to hang the work and as another element to consider along […]
Starting work on the bench as enabled a stronger visualization of the piece and a chance to see what is possible for the materials. Wanting to encouperate some steel in the bench somewhere to bring relation to the steel on […]
Continuing to consider the works components in relation to one another I have thought of introducing a bench to the work. Toying on the idea of the gallery bench however finding a balance between the functional bench and the purpose […]
This week ended with 2 tutorials, one for studio practice and one for the research report. After continuing to develop the grid work this week with the addition of another smaller steel frame, it was helpful to discuss this piece. […]
This week has begun with making. Thoughts on a projection piece involving a video of a hoverfly has lead me to weld a grid. However once doing this the work began to take a turn for a more eco based […]
The biggest tree I have found in Shetland yet, it is lying on a beach like a wooden whale, the roots have been cut as has the trunk and somehow it has been at sea and washed up on this […]
I’m a part-time student currently in my second year at the University of Bolton, studying BA (Hons) Fine Art.
What is the outcome of my first silkscreen layer? I successfully managed to print out my first photoshop layer of Chairman Mao onto an A2 size inkjet Acetate and looks very clear quality with no splodge marks. After that Glen […]
“Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.” ― John Cage During the 1960’s John Cage held a huge part in organising a thought process and movement in which a […]
Asides from thinking it must have been a joy to stretch those curvaceous cloud canvases there’s a serious ethereal edge to the sponged pigment floating on the surface to Rondinone’s Cloud paintings. Titled after the dates produced the Cloud paintings lift the Mountain sculptures […]
The final installment in the Pelagic trawler trip featuring the boat herself, full of intriguing, interlinking shapes, industrial forms, apertures, reels, pipes and knots, some marked with the traces of the work and the environment.
Here is an image of the collaborative painting produced in Folkestone last week as part of the SALT festival. (see previous blog post). Thanks to Helen Lindon for the photo.
I sometimes wonder if I’m little bit schizophrenic. My moods, reactions can zoom up and down with alarming speed. Over the years I have learnt to take a deep breath and wait before acting too soon and setting life-changing actions […]
Well, I had a go at a bigger watercolour on stretched tracing paper. It is not easy to build up dark areas of pigment, possibly because the bigger paper holds so much water. I decide to let the paper dry […]
On Tuesday, I went to an artists meeting – set up by fellow blogger Josie Jenkins ( https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/skygroundbeing/post/52429535 ) It was wet and miserable, it had been a horrible day in work (half term – loads of kids ) and we […]
Third installment of the Pelagic Trawler trip, electronic instruments, radar, sonar, echo sounders, beautiful images, glowing, pixels, moving, recording, depths, distance, times, weights, sounds, voices, transmitting across the night….. in the North Sea, where the darkness is pure, ‘northward enter […]
