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It’s been a long time
I’m back! It has been a long time. I’m panicking. I spoke last time about the work with the ballot box; it is something that absorbed me completely during the days I had free to work on it. I completely […]
Print Shed
It has been an extremely busy few weeks for me. I have been getting thoughts and reflections down on paper, but the words haven’t made it to the blog much. Currently choosing work to take to Print Shed to fill […]

Events #34: The week ahead from a-n’s members
This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s Events section, includes Russian authors as comic-strip heroes, a plein air exhibition that is taking on the British weather, and paintings of UFO conspiracists.

Istanbul Biennial opens with 1500 artworks across 36 venues
The 14th Istanbul Biennial opens with work by over 80 international artists and a theme that ‘hovers around’ the connotations and physical reality of salt water.
Corbyn commends Paying Artists campaign as Labour leadership race enters final leg
Jeremy Corbyn, the frontrunner in the Labour leadership campaign, has expressed his support for a-n/AIR’s Paying Artists in his recently published plan for the arts.
Art markets
I had some mono prints in a box on the Crate Studio and Project Space stall at the Margate version of the Art Car Boot Fair and am very pleased to have sold a print. Bodes well perhaps for my […]

DACS supports global treaty on artist royalty rights
The Design and Artists Copyright Society backs calls for an international review of royalty rights for artists.
Extract taken from my essay The Russian Linesman
We, Wallinger’s companions, can also now witness this event. We witness how Petit carefully traverses a point in space that events have since effaced. I am travelling back to my memory of the BBC news footage of 9/11. Wallinger is […]
Four Decades of Chinese Art, hidden collectors hoard, on view…
This is a collection of unprecedented amount… The hoard of contemporary works amassed by the Swiss collector Uli Sligg, is on show for the first time ever, and here, in England.. at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. Among the […]

Ireland. Collecting ideas.
Beginning of Residency in MART Gallery, Dublin
We are birds, we walk with ghosts
And so it’s back to work! What a Summer it’s been. I’ve written about my Summer of love for neurodiversity on my blog, The Other Side, and I’m hopeful that many more people will read the rather extraordinary article co-written […]
Automatic Drawing 01
Presumably the first of many automatic drawings. Based on a magazine image the body lines appear to correspond with body chakras. My first book to read on the subject will be : Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung

The Absurdity of Sex and the Unconscious Mind
Analyzing myself through my own sexual attraction to others. Attempting to ascertain the difference between human, social and animal attraction…hopefully identified the absurdity of ‘hardwired’ but no longer relevant attractions.
Its Official
Finally after part self-funding a research trip to Finland, developing the idea over the past 18 months and a second attempt of applying to Arts Council England my project has been funded. I have to start by giving my thanks […]
The National Sculpture Symposium London Conference and publication launch
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Archive
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What museums must do to ensure art is protected
In a piece originally published by The Conversation, Jean Brown wonders what can be learnt by galleries and museums from the recent incident in Taiwan which saw a young boy damage a £1m painting after tripping up while on a gallery tour.
Inaugural Sluice_ screens prize shortlist announced
Ten artists working in the digital realm have been shortlisted for the new, open submission Sluice_screens prize.
Spoons and stitches
Well this is exactly the sort of thing I’ve been talking about isn’t it? The affect one person has on another, and the different ways to express that. Spoons. Some people are “spoon neutral” in that they don’t rub off […]
Adam Fenton’s Painting Club
Adam Fenton’s Painting Club Ben Clarke, David Dellagi, Mark Edmonds, Adam Fenton, Callum Green, Fiona Long, Paula MacArthur, Benjamin Prosser, Matthew Randle, Mark Sheeky, Hideatsu Shiba, Dovilė Šimonytė, Eleanor Watson Adam Fenton’s Painting Club brings together a diverse range of […]
People and Spoons
The internet sometimes turns up gold. It was thus when I met fellow @a_nartblogs superblogger Elena Thomas online just over a year ago. Yesterday we made it into real time, meeting for the first time at the curious edifice that […]
Untitled blog post from "drilling for gold"
stephanie simone lives on the south coast of the uk. in the last few years she’s attempted to set up a painting and decorating business after working as a sales person for a paint company. steph works hard and is […]

Chriswoodartist
Ramblings of a very old British Fine Artist
Untitled blog post from "Inter-tidal"
I’m still unsure of how much to work into a painting once the first layers are there, the balance is very fragile and I’m thinking that this one needs slightly more work. It normally takes a while to ‘see’ the […]

Spacex announces first crowdfunded artist in residence
Following its successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, Spacex have selected Trevor Pitt of Pod Projects as the gallery’s first socially-engaged artist in residence.