The historical past and the internal structure of Yumoto house, which was once used for silkworm farming and as a hospital, is the framework for my site-specific installation. The installation consists of 1,000 meters of silver yarn, three drawings (220cm x 82cm each), and sound
Nakanojo Biennale 2015 12th Sept – 12th Oct Visible traces of past human activity such as stains, scratches and notches are captured in drawings on delicate Japanese rice and silk paper. Ink is dropped and dragged into pools of salt […]
The theme of the Biennale is to make links between local traditions and contemporary art. I have been given one of the historical buildings Yumoto House to make a site-specific installation.
Writing in the London Evening Standard, London’s deputy mayor for education and culture has warned that the city is becoming too expensive for artists to live in.
To launch our new series of picture-focused articles, we take a look at Los Angeles-based USC Fisher Museum of Art’s current exhibition which explores the complex relationship between humans, the oceans, and the things we throw away.
As one might hope, sculpture has been at the forefront of programming at the Hepworth. Recent highlights have included the great Lynda Benglis show earlier in 2015, to which this Caro retrospective is a commanding companion. There is a lot […]
The project is about creating a community in the heart of Goonhilly for a day. For those who don’t know. Goonhilly Downs is a unique landscape on the Lizard Peninsular in Cornwall. Home to all sort sorts of things, including the iconic Goonhilly Earth Station.
Darren and I have been working remotely for a while, taking photographs and exchanging images via Pinterest to start to develop ideas for the exhibition at the Minories in Colchester. Today we met at the Gallery to look at the […]
Right then folks, here it is! I’m not going to write much, the pictures are able to say more than my words today…. Here’s the video made by Laura Rhodes for “nine women”. I think it gives a real […]
After a solid week of setting up, I was ready (with assistance!) just as our opening evening party got started last night! The space I had – the marquee – although I’d known the measurements was much larger than I’d […]
The Sphæræ was designed by artist Cocky Eek and we were lucky enough to be the first artists to use the inflatable structure to play, experiment and test things out in. I used this opportunity to rework my BA graduation […]
Fibre Artist and Felt Maker Moira West encourages interaction with her work.
As part of this year’s Heritage Open Days across England, six artists have been commissioned to produce site-specific work at the English Heritage site Fort Brockhurst in Gosport. Pippa Koszerek speaks to the artist and curator behind the Space Interrupted project.
This weekend at the fourth edition of Tramway’s Artists’ Moving Image Festival in Glasgow, Transmission Gallery presents the Film Open 2015 – a new touring programme of 20 films from five artists’ support networks in the UK.
The refugee crisis is now fully in the public mind. Last week proved decisive in a process of galvanising compassion and propelling large numbers of citizens into action. We marched, made banners, donated clothes, listened to speeches and cried. People […]
How to celebrate a year of blogging? With a blog post of course! Today I discovered my blog with the wonderful a-n is one year old. I can think of nothing better than a visual post. A rapid fire upload […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here You can only go with that gut feeling can’t you? In the studio, with the making, things aren’t going well. Everything either looks twee and stupid, or contrived and derivative of someone else, something else, […]
I’m beginning to see a spatial connection in some of my recent photographs. Marc Augé points out that we have an uneasy relationship with the space we occupy. Our steps into outer space ‘reduce our own space to an infinitesimal […]
I’m part-way through an interesting book by Marc Augé; (Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity) and I’d like to consider how some of his ideas play out in relation to my work. In surveying the train journey from Marden to London, […]
