AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I do know that I have written before about the secrecy surrounding “getting work in a proper gallery”. I do think that things are getting better… processes are more transparent than they once were, […]
This image is cropped from one of the paintings on the MA module on Landscape. The idea is to relate landscape to biography, emotions, life events. There’s good relevant evidence for this. Just as many authors subconsciously or intentionally rely […]
Getting across the value of the arts to society in this unforgiving political climate needs more passion and fewer generic advocacy tools This month, I’ve been reminded how in the pre-internet days of the CND and the Greenham Common peace […]
Since 2000 there has been an unprecedented surge in self-employment. According to the RSA, there has been a 40% increase in micro-businesses and one in seven of the workforce are now self-employed. I recently joined the UK’s freelancer community and […]
My previous interest in the methods of Aby Warburg has led me to consider the ‘Atlas’ as a strategy for mapping cultural practice as well as an artistic method in itself. The use of atlases as a method of artistic […]
Here in the UK, as the Paying Artists campaign revealed in 2014, the majority of contemporary artists are barely surviving financially, with no or low pay the norm. In real terms, nearly three-quarters of artists are getting just 37% of […]
As artists find themselves at the end of the cultural food chain, Susan Jones suggests a new activism to reaffirm their status The so-called golden age of arts funding has given way to debilitating austerity, particularly for artists who find […]
Are traditional arts organisations the best vehicles for meaningful participation or should we be looking elsewhere? These are dangerous times for people and for our world of arts values. Uncertainty can cause us to be safe, edit complexity, be secretive, […]
This week’s selection, chosen from events posted by a-n members on the site’s popular Events section, includes animations at Torre Abbey, the sounds of the sea in Plymouth, and live-action role play at the Siobhan Davies Dance Studios.
Republishing a selection from my writing on the Guardian. Collectively, these texts raise issues and concerns about the visual arts infrastructure, arts policy and conditions for artists’ creativity.
The campaign to ‘save the future of creativity in schools’ is back, following recent proposals by education secretary Nicky Morgan that would exclude creative subjects from new school accountability measures.
18 July – 29 August 2015 Pyramid & Parr Hall, Palmyra Square South, Cultural Quarter, Warrington WA1 1BL This weekend my first solo show (eek!) opens in Warrington at Pyramid & Parr Hall (in the gallery at Pyramid). This […]
I realised that some areas of the dress will have lots of folds and will probably not take glued sections of thicker map paper. In the first lino cut I left the flowers as a simple overall shape, just to […]
I hope personally, that many people already know of Alfred’s work, which involves a large amount of maritime based themes, which echoes with my own keen interest with the sea and its freedoms…… the fact that it is a gateway […]
For the last few days I have been in Reykjavik with Andy and busy pretty much the whole time, so I’ve not been able to write until now, on the plane flying home again. I have 2 workshops coming up […]
Yesterday spent making my shed completely dark for cyanotype processing and collected hardened glass from glazier. Plus found more scratch cards on evening walk. Went on search for studio in centre of Abergavenny today and have found 3 possible places, […]
Effective protesting for activist Sarah Corbett: pretty, non-threatening scenarios – picnics and cupcakes, or handkerchiefs embroidered with the truth – to engage and draw people in, allowing the conversation to begin. Craft: invaluable tool to bring people together, encourage them […]
‘tell me about your mother…’ began during a one year residency at the University of Nottingham in 2012/13. The project seemed to be a natural progression for me (my work having previously focused on my relationship with my son), reflecting […]
Trip to London yesterday, drop off at an exhibition – Notting Hill. The main event will be on the 22nd featuring a performance by Mark Sheeky and Sabine Kusmal. I will be showcasing a new painting…’Golders Green’ along with some […]
The Whitworth Art Gallery follows its recent Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year win with a nomination for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize.
The sixth edition of the international photography prize, created to promote debate around global sustainability, features a shortlist of 12 photographers addressing the theme of ‘disorder’.
It occurred to me that i had not mentioned some quite relevant factors about my UCS ( University campus Suffolk ) degree show piece…. ‘Insomnius’ Firstly; […]
