The seminar this week with Judit Bodor was about opportunities in the art world; there are opportunities out there you just have to grab them when you can and if there are’nt any then create them. We had a discussion […]
Artwork created in memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow activists, who were executed by the Nigerian military almost 20 years ago, has been seized at Lagos port, with demands for its release ignored by authorities.
how do i think ? imagine the overall big picture and work inwards or find a detail and expand it outwards ? it appears that i’m a detail out kinda guy. having had this pointed out to me it certainly […]
painting from memory, ‘Sea-land’ This painting took a while. I realise that I’m only using a fraction of what I ‘see’ in reality to spark the final paintings then allow them to develop. Although I use the occasional sketch […]
Southwark Council in London has been presented with plans to convert a multi-storey car park into ultra-affordable studios for artists and creative entrepreneurs.
I always feel a bit uncomfortable when I say I have the D word. People sometimes look at me as if to say ‘don’t use that as an excuse’ and then I feel like this. Recently I read this article […]
Artist and poet Nancy Campbell explores the disappearing languages and environments of the Arctic in her latest limited edition work, which launches later this week at a book fair in London. Sarah Bodman tells the story behind Proviso.
Thank you to artist Emma Barnard for alerting me to this Wellcome Collection blog post on the creative power of collections. From Wellcome himself, to Henry Moore, William Morris and Joseph Cornell, it’s an interesting insight into the impact of […]
The wreck of the Lessops at Hagdale, Unst. She was lost in 1883 but all the crew were saved.
Hi there! I’m quite new to all this and am planning to rent a stall to sell my jewellery at a nearby artisan market. I was just wondering if anyone knew whether the insurance that comes with our membership covers […]
How well did it go with printing the second layer of Chairman Mao? To be blatantly honest the second stencil layer that I had projected onto silkscreen worked very well even though there was a small hole left through the […]
You may remember that at the time of the Pocket Arts Place and Proximity Story collection I was having an unconscious luddite patch (I put this down to my West Country origins, where resistance to technology has history, as does […]
Currently in my final year of a BA (Hons) Fine Art course at University Campus Suffolk. This bog will act as a documentation and reflection of my thoughts and processes in painting. At the moment I am very interested in […]
Abraham Cruzvillegas: Empty Lot is the inaugural Hyundai Commission for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern.
Crowdsourced from the ideas of Middlesbrough and Teeside residents through a series of workshops and open calls, mima’s current exhibition Localism is about reasserting the importance of the local in both the development of society and the international art world.
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
