
Bideford Black – The Next Generation
This exhibition shows the work by commissioned artists who explored the local pigment ‘Bideford Black’ over the course of a year.
This exhibition shows the work by commissioned artists who explored the local pigment ‘Bideford Black’ over the course of a year.
These works explore form and shape in an open space; I come across a shape or an idea in my mind and find the material that can achieve it’s quality and vision. I’m curious in how materials can be […]
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Six artists respond to a Victorian Garden.
These are playful experiments with form using organic/ food substance materials; the pieces take on a life of their own and are placed in an awkward manner with the purpose intent of whether they will fall or remain in […]
Today I performed in Worcester High Street and the responses were what I had though would happen, for the public at least it was more a response of – leave well enough alone – allot of people walked off or looked in […]
Artist’s installation of a ‘pseudo-shamanic hut’ is the winner of the £5000 British Ceramics Biennial AWARD in Stoke-on-Trent.
Four artists from the north of England have received awards in the biennial New Light Prize, with Sheffield-based Mandy Payne winning the £10,000 Valeria Sykes Award for her depiction of Park Hill housing estate.
My research direction and ideas have taken a new direction over the last week. After having a refresher induction in the metal workshop I had a sudden urge to work and play with this material. I have always been surrounded […]
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.
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 […]
AGNES MARTIN My tutor, Jane Watt had suggested I take a look at this exhibition at Tate Modern. Before my visit I’d read a little about Agnes Martin, and was not sure her work would be particularly relevant to my […]
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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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.
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 […]
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 […]
Hilary Jack crates a world that is both familiar in the physical sense yet also goes deeper into the subconscious of the mentality of the artist recluse.
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 […]
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, […]