As the dust settles after last week’s hectic preview period, a-n’s Pippa Koszerek reviews the exhibitions by Sarah Lucas (British Pavilion), Helen Sear (Wales) and Graham Fagen (Scotland) at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Adam Gruning, Mike Jones, Jake Kent, Mathew Parkin
Artist Steve Messam’s latest public commission – a large-scale temporary bridge made entirely from bright red paper – has just been unveiled as part of the Lakes Ignite arts programme in the Lake District.
Stuck in the mud yesterday. Immobile. No way out of the mud. My legs would not move. Nor my head. Struggle is creative. Forced to focus in this tight spot, I went in circles, searching for my inner earth, my […]
I have over time noticed patterns in my new work, I have developed on my themes on moons and clouds that a discussed before. I now have star’s dots and glitter. This has developed over time, this techniques seem to […]
Venice: a series of observations noted on a mobile phone….
Initial observations from a 4 day trip to the Venice Biennale 2015
How did I chose make this performance? The idea for this performance came when I was writing my essay on the artists Hélio Oiticica and Yoko Ono. How did I develop this performance? This performance had two phases. The first […]
Cubism Also in some of my paintings I have some inspiration in the Cubist movement by Pablo Picasso and George Braque. This was the first style of abstract art, which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response […]
I saw a call for participants on the re-title (http://www.re-title.com/ ) website a few weeks ago and was fascinated by the possibilities of the possibilities around creating a museum/gallery like installation through borrowed and found items. This has struck me […]
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kirchner was one of the greatest expressionist painters and helped found the German Expressionism in century 20. The war experience, led him to have mental breakdowns, and suicide at 58 years old. Best known for his genre […]
My teacher Robin Alert in one of my tutorials, on my first academic year, he analysed some of my paintings, and he told me that my technique of using strong brushstrokes and bright colours, can be regarded as a characteristic […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Time to regroup: The six bras that went to Debra Eck at the 3rd on 3rd Gallery in Jamestown have arrived home safely, beautifully and lovingly packaged back up into the box I had […]
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On my first academic year, Level 4 in Fine Arts I started to develop my work and focus on the theme domestic violence x human relationship, socio-economic and political and psychological context. To develop my theme I also created drawings […]
‘Utopia is a mirage that has overtaken societal needs to create an ignorance to the subversive strategy that aims to fund warfare.’ I feel the need to quote my own writing here as I attempt to distract myself with applications […]
After having a lecture about trace artists last year it occurred to me at the beginning of the year to collect each piece of paper that I have cut out, almost as a negative space idea. Over all this time […]
I experimented with silhouette work inspired by Kara Walker in my work and attempted to do so in the dark room in our university. I ran into some issues when attempting to document the silhouettes. To create the silhouette was […]
One of my pieces had unfortunately been broken by someone putting their foot through it when it was residing on the floor and tearing a piece approximately 15 inches long across it with their foot. This gave me the idea […]
Physically things have slid further into the cellar, due to thieves who ran away with my sleep weeks ago, big bulging sacks full, and left me with a steady supply of nausea and vertigo. They must have taken a selection […]
The shortlist for the 2015 Turner Prize has been announced and features a London-based architecture and design collective and three women artists.
Recipients of a-n’s Go and See Venice bursary pick some of their highlights from the 56th Venice Biennale.
It is exciting to see how my rock garden is growing… Six sculptures are ready and just a few more are on the way. Each rock is a journey: choosing rock, making cast, “reading” it’s form, creating visual lines, which […]
