Five floors in Glasgow School of Art’s Reid Building provide temporary space for the Phoenix Bursary Exhibition, a show of new work by artists from the Phoenix Bursary programme. Richard Taylor talks to two graduates with work in the exhibition and finds out what the bursary meant to them.
So much for having a day to myself on Tuesday to catch up with some work…. I was absolutely exhausted after the heat and travelling round London the day before. Despite having a really late night, I had to be […]
Planted on a field of gold by the broken and the mended The piece known as ‘Made In England’ made by Emma Briggs was at first background noise , it was something that I’d seen at the museum and appreciated […]
This is the chance to share info on whats on’ ! Carsten Holler, Decisions, Is a fantastic, experience related journey in art, he is great at ‘involving’ the viewer and encouraging them to become, the participant. Carsten Holler, born in […]
I’m taking part in the NTU MA show displaying work in the Bonnington Atrium area of NTU (follow the corridor to the left of the Bonnington Gallery), in Nottingham UK. After the preview it runs from 10am – 4pm this Saturday […]
Artist using footfall in the liminal edge land landscape cataloguing debris, text, photos & video
What I love about art blogging is the freedom within the form. If readers look back on my posts they will find a complete collage of thoughts and images – I come at this space from whatever angle I happen […]
A performance score to travel there and back again One car ride from Milton Keynes to Flitwick One tube ride from Walthamstow to Victoria One car ride from Flitwick to Luton Airport One bus ride from Victoria to Gatwick […]
Manchester-based Liz West has opened her highest value commission to date at Bradford’s National Media Museum – the immersive light-based installation, An Additive Mix. She speaks to Pippa Koszerek about the making process, starting out and making the jump to full-time artist.
I had not expected to get brilliant grades for the end of Level 5, what with problems of depression, anxiety and not being great at formal essay/dissertation writing. But, I found the grade I received for the dissertation proposal really […]
I’m particularly interested in the biographical format due to my interest in contexts of artistic production. Often as researchers, we are encouraged to distance ourselves personally from our object of research. However, I feel that is is sometimes necessary and […]
Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates’ latest project invites visitors to ‘hear Bristol’ via hundreds of live events.
These pictures came across my Facebook news feed, showing deformed daisies that are growing 100km away from the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, that took place in 2011. From looking at the work of Cornelia Hesse-Honegger in the past, in which […]
The blog provides an insight into my initial exploration of Stoke-on-Trent, my responses to the environment and sense of place. The following Chapter of the blog sees the work that was initiated within the two weeks residency, come to some form of resolution.
Organised by Castlefield Gallery Associates in Manchester, Bloc Projects in Sheffield and Extra Special People in Birmingham. The idea behind the three-part residency exchange focuses on providing artists with opportunities for making work in quick, experimental contexts.
One of the great things to have come out of my Stitched Time project has been that the artists involved have formed a loose group, which can expand and shrink and whose members flag up interesting events to go to […]
The largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK has announced this year’s shortlist of 58 artists.
4-18 July, 2015.
Brings together ten artists exploring an array of ideas through idiosyncratic incorporation and employment of text in various media – ‘text’ being a glyph of a writing system or a mark forming part of printed/written language.
Teaching students at Queensland College of Art over the past couple of days has been an amazing experience. I had almost forgotten how much I enjoy teaching the process and getting students excited about the endless potential lithography has to offer.
Lancaster’s StoreyG2 has commissioned artist Layla Curtis to explore the issue of land ownership and its social effects as part of a series of projects centred on a plot of land at the edge of the city known as Freeman’s Wood. Jack Hutchinson finds out more.
I am drawn again to the site. An involuntary drive makes me want to look around? So I park my car in the place I always used to and walked in. There is a JCB working close by. I walk […]
