I live by the sea in East Kent. Our coast faces North. The sea is Khaki green with clay and silt, and usually calm as it is protected by the entrance to the Thames estuary. I had never heard of […]
For the Scottish pavilion in Venice, Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen has created four rooms of new work that includes a large bronze rope tree, intimate works on paper and a four-screen audio-visual installation. Chris Sharratt talks to the artist.
Solo show of ex-YBA is lewd, humourous and paradoxical – everything that makes her so great.
Back in the studio today I have started work on the idea of adding a hand mirror into my painting. I did some research on other artists who have explored mirrors and reflections in pieces of their work. One of […]
Still from the video Hell in the Sand 2015 Visual thinkers can just click on the link if preferred – but there is a vertigo warning with this video. Those who like words, do click the link but also feel free […]
PATTERNS IN NATURE by Peter S Stevens 1974: This book I have been looking for ever since I browsed it in Blackwells book shop in Oxford while visiting my brother in 1977. I had no money to buy it then. […]
On the weekend i visited the river Thames and collected the sand I needed for my work. I visited two beaches that are almost opposite each other, one on the North side, the other on the South side. The sand […]
This week I’ve been in the workshop prepping all of the panels. Each panel is 65cm x 65cm x 12cm and is strengthened via a centre ‘X’ brace. At the centre of this ‘X’ is a steel lockring which will […]
Contemporary art? Surrealism? This work could be the example of how intriguing could be art. Why? That’s not so many questions behind. In the World we live, for sure there are billions or even more people, which they never finished […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It doesn’t take me long to bounce back… Collaboration then…. It’s a thing I do, and I love it. In the early days, I had an couple of failed attempts, because I didn’t understand. […]
I have been working again today on the Word canvas. I keep thinking I’ve finished and then feel that something else is needed. I painted over the words that still looked a little weak and then experimented with different stitching on […]
50-page Degree Shows Guide 2015 featuring more than 75 forthcoming shows across the UK, plus perspectives from artists, curators, academics and graduating students on what artist Bob and Roberta Smith refers to as an “incredible rite of passage”. Available on issuu or as pdf.
Paying Artists Regional Advocates have been busy over the bank holiday weekend, with a hustings event in Glasgow, a relay race in Bristol, plus more activity in Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff.
SPACE The space in the forest and how it becomes occupied. The space the tree roots follow, responding to their environment, above ground, ribbon-ing down slopes, root pull and grip as they lift from the ground. Aware of time and […]
My solo exhibition ‘Home’ at Red Gallery in Hull will open this Friday 8th and I offered to do a talk and table discussion Saturday 9th. There I will give an insight to my research about ‘home’ and present my […]
Just because you’re not officially in the Venice Biennale doesn’t mean you can’t be part of the frenzy of activity taking place across the city. Pippa Koszerek highlights some of the alternative and artist-led events taking place during and beyond the Biennale’s three-day preview.
A headlong rush for the station today, grateful for my bike. I was literally working until the last minute. I tried a new route by train, which gives me an extra 25 minutes at both ends of the day, and avoids […]
