Another sale…
Well, I am pretty chuffed as I sold a mono print at the Art Market in Maidstone to someone I didn’t know. It was great to be able to talk to the buyer about my work and direct her also […]
Well, I am pretty chuffed as I sold a mono print at the Art Market in Maidstone to someone I didn’t know. It was great to be able to talk to the buyer about my work and direct her also […]
The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender presents work across the city by over 400 local, national and international artists. Artist and AIR Council member Steven Paige welcomes this audacious new festival and looks at how the city’s visual art ecology has developed in the five years since British Art Show 7.
Three artists start a new gallery project
This week’s selection includes Ai Weiwei’s widely acclaimed Royal Academy show, a multi-screen installation in Liverpool, and an examination of the history of online scamming in Manchester.
Alexander McQueen, razor shell clam dress. Metamorphosis was an ongoing theme for the London fashion designer Alexander McQueen. This is also a subject I have explored in my own work. I was very pleased and lucky to see the Alexander […]
My thoughts have very much been with the studio news this week, but as the deadline for the book exhibition I’m organising was up on Friday, I’ve had to shift my attention to go through all of the submissions. I […]
The correlation between artworks and artefacts in my practice has brought me to the field of Image Studies. This field is not subject specific, but instead includes the disciplines of “art; aesthetics; anthropology; critical theory; cultural studies; history; literature; philosophy; […]
Paula Rego. (2003) Come to Me [lithograph] Paula Rego is an artist who has influenced my own work since I started university. I remember when I first saw her work, and being drawn into a world of haunting imagery. She […]
Yes I have certainly tried the biggest mouthful of Chinese medication that I never thought I would ever face. The Chinese medication has certainly given me too many side effects I could feel my whole bodies nerves vibrating which has […]
Glasgow International, the biennial festival of local and international contemporary art, has announced highlights of its 2016 programme.
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
I am excited and petrified. I heard this week that I have been short listed for something I really want to do. This is wonderful. However, I have to do a 15 minute presentation as part of the final selection […]
My Local paper announces this on the front page – Full Story Page 7. Actually it’s on page three not seven! But very enthusiastic with lots of quotes and the submitted proposals received 1200 letters of support. The development will […]
My first step was to walk. For some reason the thoughts flow easier when walking. The process of the development of thoughts seems more fluid when the body is in the repetitive action of one foot in front of the […]
I have been in residence since 11th September and have been so busy that I haven’t been able to get this blog up and running until today. As my residency co-incides with h.Art week there is a constant stream of […]
This blog is somewhere for me to share my thoughts, ideas and responses to my week long residency at The Sidney Nolan Trust.
Set against the backdrop of its Newcastle city centre building being lost to redevelopment, a recent two-day event at the artist-led NewBridge Project in Newcastle asked whether it was time for artists to ‘grow up’ and accept the new agenda of cuts, philanthropy and big business sponsorship. Artist Lesley Guy joined in the conversation and came to a different conclusion.
The seven-strong shortlist for the international prize and exhibition’s seventh edition features artists from Angola, Lebanon, USA and Japan, and includes two well-known British artists.
So I’m going back to China! It’s official and I’m going to Hong Kong as well! I’m very excited but also have the fear a bit. Last week I had it really bad. I was worried that I wouldn’t have […]