Abstract, largely geometric or reductive art is alive and well in the UK if this exhibition was an indication. Organised in collaboration with the online forum Saturation Point and featuring twenty three artists from every decade from the 1930s to […]
In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience Is not to leave’t undone, but keep’t unknown. (1) Time freezes, then melts. The medieval warrens barricading against the plundering Goths […]
Visual diary of the 56th Venice Biennale
Countering Venice Biennale’s narcissistic tone this humble show, set in a deconsecrated Italianate chapel (Dilston Grove), works on you like a transcendental Indian raag; quietly seeping into your whole being. Between Thought and Space is a live interdisciplinary site-research project spanning […]
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Jane Lawson reviews Crossing the Tide, the Tuvalu Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale
What happens when you take the scoring system from one iconic European cultural event and apply it to another?
Art / Aperol / Audemar Piguet / Anxiety Balenciaga / Blisters / Colonialism / Collagen / Canal / Canaletto / Curators Dolce / Discourse / Drowning / Dreaming / Drifting Endless Exhibitions / Enwezor / Euphoria / Exhaustion / Espresso […]
Yesterday, I received the most bizarre ‘Rejection’ I have ever had. I have received rejections before (many) but most were because my work didn’t fit with the current exhibition or they just didn’t like it. Fair enough. It happens. This […]
Exhibiting at Venice Biennale over ten years ago, we never got to ride the Venice Biennale opening week as a spectator, which is much like a roller-coaster with its highs and lows and seeing everything at breakneck speed, compared to […]
It’s with a sense of surprise that my painting practice continues to develop in curious and diverse ways. For now I’m simply going with the line thing and watching patiently as the triangle comes out to play. Triangles? Me? Also […]
‘What on earth is that?’ one might ask upon visiting the Bearpit on during its inaugural event in a new programme of commissioned artworks aimed at rejuvenating the spot at the centre of Bristol. ‘Well…quite.’ The Bearpit played home to […]
All over! Well not really; the exhibition has just opened, I’ll be back in ten days to do some artist workshops for children and there’s still the de install to think about, not to mention the floor cleaning which still […]
A personal reflection on the Venice Biennale 2015.
Here are a few new prints and some images of Olafsfjordur from yesterday and today. I went on a walk along the coast yesterday morning with some of the other Listhus artists and the mountains were covered in cloud. Today […]
herman de vries doesn’t believe in hierarchies; why one letter should rank taller than another. his name and everything associated with him is presented in lower case. i will show fidelity to this principle as his work was […]
Well, everything is now handed in and with the examiners. It does feel strange that there is nothing to do! Please come along and see the show at Staffordshire University. The private view is open from 6pm on friday the […]
There is still so much material that I have for/from Following Eugène. This week I presented a site-specific installation and lead an artist’s walk for the end of the Take a Walk on the Wild Side course, and yet it […]
As part of PEAK, a contemporary art initiative in the Black Mountains, Wales, Rebecca Spooner reports on a weekend exchange visit from studio artists based at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire.
Second year undergraduate sculpture
