Photomoments
Photography, interviews, digital media – arts, theatre, and social issues.
Photography, interviews, digital media – arts, theatre, and social issues.
10 artists have been selected for annual competition and showcase exhibition which profiles the work of recent UK based graduates whose primary medium is painting or drawing.
Covering the upcoming festival of flip books, that will be to he shelves of Darlington library before travelling to libraries in America.
Initiated by a-n and CVAN, with contributions from Scottish Artists Union, Engage and other key organisations, the visual arts sector has made a joint submission to the Treasury Spending Review outlining a number of key recommendations to help better support the sector.
What’s the best way to get professional prints done of my work. I don’t have a good enough camera to take and download to online printers
A new blog post already! I wanted to tell you about something else that is going on that I’m rather excited about. I have a friend called Colette from 104 Duke Street Studios in Liverpool. We meet up often and […]
For the second piece in our monthly series on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman looks at the work of artist and poet Jeremy Dixon and his affordable, small-run booklets.
Homage to Yellow was a performance made last year. I had to produce my own wallpaper. I researched the medical history of Worcester. I read the short story, the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Wallpaper design below. I took from […]
Is Britain able to allow us to be free , truly, a Utopia would be deemed as impossible at this time we are always watched by the onlooking eye we are surrounded by tools of propaganda, propaganda tools just like Alex, […]
Since my arrival in Stoke my thoughts have been dominated by idiosyncratic gardening, ceramics, foodstuffs (in particular bread + oatcakes!) and the way all 3 overlap with lifestyle programming and the foreign. I have started in the studio trying to bring […]
More than half way though the month of exhibiting at Cromford Mills already! The works look great in the 200-year old building, and what a perfect venue it is for Tangled Yarns: the world’s first water-powered spinning mill and the […]
This blog is going to be used to support my study and investigations through this year of study.
On a sunny Sunday in late September I was joined by Mark Loos from Medway Swale Estuary Partnership and a group of 12 walkers on a walk with sketchbooks and clay. We had plotted a walk along the shoreline at […]
It has taken a while to work out how to respond to this new large muffle. I wanted to create large pieces, that no longer felt in the domestic realm. I also wanted a canvas for the incredible effects that […]
I fired the new muffle several times in quick succession, making the most of the good summer weather, and working towards a deadline, to have pots ready for the ceramic selling event, Earth & Fire. I fire my kiln, on […]
Packing the new muffle with pots is a whole new experience. Instead of a selection of small and heavy saggars to lift and stack in the kiln, I now have one chamber to fill. The new Muffle. The first firing […]
Frieze London is back for its 13th edition with 164 galleries from 27 countries, plus a rejuvenated Frieze Projects programme of artists’ commissions. Chris Sharratt reports.
The walls of the kiln were fired slowly to 1260 degrees in an electric kiln. The only element to warp badly was the roof. The warping happened as the pieces were drying out, mainly due to lack of space and […]