Glasgow School of Art’s BA Fine Art degree show, the first full showcase since last year’s fire, is across two floors of the department’s new home in the Tontine Building in the city’s east end. Chris Sharratt reports.
In the garage this morning, delving into the archives, I discovered a box of (mostly sprayed) gold objects amidst other small metal items. The fortune cookie below is one of the ‘Stock Exchange’ gold pieces from 2009. Finding it is […]
Among those working in the visual arts who have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List are Maria Balshaw of Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery and Hepworth Wakefield director Simon Wallis.
Hi, i’m looking for advice on the best way to sell my artworks over the web, and the ways in which I go about posting oversea’s, payment and insurance etc. I’ve looked at a few online shops, but not sure […]
To ring the changes I hosted a visit from Sam Wingate in my studio last week. His first impressions were favorable, he liked the space and thought it would make a great screen printing studio, although I have no such […]
This week’s selection includes Carsten Höller’s major survey show at the Hayward Gallery, London, a workout of the mind and body at Mima, Middlesbrough, and 50 years of Bridget Riley’s work at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Since I’ve been researching art in museum practice, I’ve begun to notice more and more artists working with collections. In a way this feels somewhat reassuring as there is obviously an interest in the field in which I am working. […]
I knew that a nasty job awaited me after the exhibition opening; namely cleaning up the floor in Roskilde, but quite how nasty, I wasn’t aware. I am writing it up as a blog post because I think it presents […]
I was given a trout caught in the lake in Olafsfjordur this weekend and I thought I would try and take a print from it. It was quite difficult, the oily fish resisted the relief ink which was quite heavy. […]
Here are some of the drawings and prints I have made over the last week in response to the landscape around Olafsfjordur and my trip to the Arctic Cirle. My studio at Listhus is gradually filling up as I hang […]
Bread and Roses #3. Created in response to the General Election results on May 7th 2015. As I continue to record the decaying condition of Bread and Roses in the weeks and months ahead, it will act as a visual […]
On Friday I took the ferry to Grimsey Island, which is 3 hours by boat North of mainland Iceland. The weather was fantastic and I was able to hike all around the small island in the 4 hours I had […]
Tracing the Pathway are four bodies, each unique and fixed, yet porous. We are one, shifting whole – an ecology dependent on its constituent parts. As a fluid mass we merge and collide with other beings we encounter along our […]
Anyone, or know of someone that would be able write a critical analysis of my work and practice for my web site? I attempted it myself but it lacks the polish that someone with a deeper understanding of art history and […]
Ground: Amy Pickles and Townley and Bradby Hosted at ATTIC, One Thoresby Street Curated by Alice Gale-Feeny and Oliver Tirré Exhibition: 4-20 June 2015 Gallery Open: Thu-Sat, 12-6pm Written by Hannah Drake, June 2015 Hidden up the seemingly endless, onslaught […]
My addition to the degree show 2015 at the Cambridge school of art.
My blog has been quiet of late….life has been pretty hectic getting exhibition space prepped and ready to throw open the doors of college to the public. The exhibition space looked fantastic! I know I am biased (!) but I […]
when I saw this at the little marine museum on Ynys Cybi * Holy Island off Anglesey, I imagined what it would be like to be inside it and to be lowered in to the sea with a feeling of […]
Susan Jones, a-n’s director for 15 years, receives an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Two new senior curators, Miguel Amado and Elinor Morgan, join the team at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
