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A Q&A with… George Barber, video artist

Best known for his ‘scratch video’ work in the 1980s, in his recent films the video artist George Barber uses dark humour to tackle topical issues such as military drones and the global refugee crisis. With shows currently taking place in London and Cardiff, Chris Sharratt talks to him about absurdity, politics and life on board a nuclear submarine.

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Day 5

As I navigate my way through this time in Shetland and the project, I feel like a driftnet, gathering everything that is coming to me while at the same time trying to put some shape into it, however it is […]

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Today’s Task

Throw your dummy out of the pram Today I have been given the task from my lecturer Sean Edwards to take ten photos of things related to my work I then must print them on 6×4 C-Type Prints and exhibit […]

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Plymouth Art Weekender

The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender took place in a range of venues and public locations throughout the ocean city between 25-27 September 2015. Pippa Koszerek considers projects from the Crafts Council, Karst, The Alamo Project, Plymouth Arts Centre and Royal William Yard.

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Photography Styles

Documentary Photography Above you can see images of my process of making the head, Its paper mache, I got hold of a Giant red balloon Blew it up to the size I wanted it and placed it on a surface […]

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Developing work at a distance

Since meeting at The Minories to discuss how our work might develop for the show in Nov/Dec Darren and I have been separately taking photographs of ourselves fitting, or trying to fit, into new environments. We have both spent some […]

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20/254

Settling into quite a routine now. The grids and lines have fallen by the wayside in the last few days, at least for now.  I was feeling that I couldn’t get into the word (enough) that is my starting point […]

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Workshop 1: Jerwood Space, London

As part of the first workshop in the new a-n Writer Development Programme, the five participants each produced a piece of writing in response to the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015, now available as an A5 printed booklet, a downloadable pdf, […]

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The Loss

The digital age sells the message ‘complex personal, creative, and cultural collaborations’ can be replaced by the right skill sets coming together in virtual conjunction. Solnit suggests this results in a loss. From her perspective something like art shown in […]

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Journey to self

An artistic and historical response to the European refugee crisis

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Notes taken from Ryan Gander

Footnotes to You’re LoOking for Something That’s Already Found You – Ryan Gander. 1. To take anything from the outside world you a. Must be interested b. It must grab your imagination c. How can you change this in terms of […]

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Damage

During the summer holidays, I spent time sorting out the damaged frames from the good ones in my ciné film collection. It is slow-going. I’m trying to collate them in order. I will add to it as I find time […]

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