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 […]
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.
