Shame The trees -particularly Ash and holly – look like up-turned people with their legs in the air. There are bottoms and groins, on one I draw a pair of pants with a piece of found chalk (it washes off). […]
Reflected that on my recent walks I’d increased the amount of material I had to process, the act of taking a photograph, rather than making a drawing, meant that I covered more ground, engaged less deeply with each piece I […]
The idea was to create a room; to create a dwelling space that I wanted to act as both an installation but as something you could also appreciate as a place of pain. I myself have a long history in […]
I put my work up in Frinton’s Slack Space. Frinton’s space is a shop window gallery space. It is in a public space that can be seen by loads of on lookers. I am really proud to have my work there […]
Yesterday I had a wonderful day out visiting Broomhill Sculpture Gardens and meeting Rinus and his delightful team at Broomhill Art Hotel. Rinus made some time and showed me around his stunning sculpture gardens and we found a space where […]
When I was a small child just starting school we used to have Friday afternoons off, until they decided to increase productivity… Today felt like that as I skipped out of the studio at 1.30pm to go and collect Zach. […]
Now that my work is finished and installed at Broomhill I want to say a big thank you to the London Sculpture Workshop who allowed me to use their facilities to make my sculpture. The technicians Mellis and James were […]
Thinking about my next work, I was considering tracing the road route travelled between the two halves featured in my Dwelling Fusion series. In a sense this could be viewed as a negative space as it both joins and separates […]
Photographs taken by Martin Owen for our group exhibition Majority Under Division you can see more about our first group exhibition on our blog http://mudcollective.blogspot.co.uk/
Last Wednesday I showed my studio to about eight artists who are interested in taking it. The one who has been on the waiting list longest will be offered it. It has been a great studio and I hope that […]
Gunther Von Hagen’s A scientist rather than an artist, but his work still has an artistic quality to it in the way he portrays his “subjects.” Hagen’s developed a technique called “plasticization”, to put it simply it is where you […]
Antony Gormley Another artist that has influanced me heavily with his use of sculpture and the human figure. Gormley creates striking sculptures, mainly out of metal from, casts of himself and is most famous for his public sculpture “angel of […]
Joseph Marr Joseph Marr has created a series of beautiful sculptures made entirely out of sugar. Employing a variety of traditional and digital techniques, Marr aims to create sensual works that bridge the gap between classical and contemporary art. Many […]
Brian Matthew Hart Hart creates light paintings using pin lights and a long exposure shot. i love the work he creates depicting fingerprints as they are very skilled, with the fact its compleatly dark when your creating them so you […]
an artist that i came across recently is JUNE YONG LEE the words describing the pieces written by the artist connect with my work well probably better then the work does so ill put them on here for who every […]
Pschographology, Doodling and the Impossibility of Random. It started, in my teens, reading a Jackie comic, I found an article called something like, “What does your handwriting say about you?” It was a light-hearted, pseudo-sciency, speculative, expose of […]
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Fair featuring contemporary craft from 35 international galleries opens as part of London Craft Week.
Artists Bob and Roberta Smith and Gordon Shrigley bring up the rear in Surrey Heath and Hackney South respectively, while David Cameron remains prime minister as Conservatives make gains and Labour routed in Scotland.
With my written coursework finished, my attention has shifted back to my art practice and to ideas that I started work on last year. A continued interest throughout this time as being been around the theme of containment and with […]
