Collage isn’t a technique I’ve made much use of in the past, my previous chopping up of found images has always been reductive rather than additive. (removing areas with a sharp scalpel or a digital airbrush) But as a thinking […]
Millions needed to prevent landscape painting of Mediterranean bay from 1880s – on loan to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum for the last 29 years – being exported.
Originally published on The Conversation, Russell Williams of University of London Institute in Paris explores France’s paradoxical relationship with controversial artworks, following the recent vandalism of Anish Kapoor’s installation at Versailles.
In a piece originally published as part of a-n’s 2015 Degree Shows Guide, Artes Mundi director Karen MacKinnon discusses the wider possibilities of the degree show for artists developing a socially-engaged art practice.
This week I went to visit the exhibition ‘Finding The Value’, at York St Mary’s, a deconsecrated medieval church which opened as a contemporary art space in 2004 and operates alongside York Art Gallery to commission works by contemporary artists. […]
This week’s selection includes the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, figurative oil painting at the Serpentine and a look back at a 1970s artist project at Birmingham’s Eastside Projects.
Review of The Ways of Folding Space and Flying,
a project by Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Korean pavilion.
I often struggle for a title when writing a new post – but not today – it springs to mind immediately! I have been waking really early recently (like 3am) my mind is wide awake and whirring like crazy. I […]
A short while ago I was offered the chance to work with Robert Pacitti on a project he has taken on with a ‘Moving Stories’ commission. I have long admired Robert’s work and his integrity. So naturally I said yes […]
As early Summer reaches the coast there are sandcastles emerging, people are out walking more and yet there is still a slight chill in the air even though it is late June, this sketch was done in the cool breeze […]
Well it’s the last day of Suffolk Open Studios. A mixed experience. It forced me to be organised at least and tidy the studio space and gave me an opportunity to hang all my recent work on the walls in […]
Yesterday I was once again artist conferencee, one of my absolute favourite manifestations of this ever expanding research-based artistic practice. In preparation for this role I found myself last week describing how I was over the past two years […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here When I first started out on the pursuance of some sort of art practice, I laboured under a bunch of misapprehensions, misunderstandings, and misconceptions about what me as an artist should look like. For a […]
Morning: First of all, here’s the video link to my chaos / order talk, edited by Teresa Albor. www.vimeo.com/130677141 With Poet Martin Evans today. (Written in morning) Yesterday he was there on his own and the library was closed (foyer […]
The third triennial Daiwa Foundation Art Prize , designed to give a British artist exposure to Japan’s visual arts sector, has been awarded to Oliver Beer.
Another project we worked on whilst being exiled from the studio was A World of Ego Close to the Gods. Given the opportunity to use the Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh for 4 weeks, we had to come up with a […]
