The visual arts programme for this year’s Manchester International Festival has been announced, with new works by Gerhard Richter, Ed Atkins, Olafur Eliasson and Douglas Gordon among the highlights.
I have been working away on the word canvas, without any real conviction since all my questioning about where I was going with it, after the Marlene Dumas exhibition. Last Wednesday, however, brought the beginnings of a breakthrough. Two students, from […]
I have added further more cotton reels that are attached to paint rollers.
This project actually began as a sculpture that would mechanically move other sculptures made by me. In this case the cocktail stick bird in the image. Now the sculpture has evolved the way it has i have contemplated leaving out […]
I have had the best day in the studio this year today. Having been thinking about introducing found objects and spray painting them neon pink to add to the overall wall presentation, I decided to be really brave yesterday when […]
As it’s International Women’s Day, I feel the necessity to right about the importance of my choice to discuss political issues within my work. At the beginning of 3rd year, I ditched politics, I thought that my activism outside of […]
The most precious find that inspired a range of new and challenging work
I have been wan a place in the Crafts Council UK’s 2015 Hothouse Business mentoring programme!
Hamish Young is currently studying Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. a-n Art Student: Are the choices you make in your visual practice the same sort of choices you made in your dissertation research? Hamish Young: There […]
Jennifer Hare is currently studying Fine Art at University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich. a-n Art Student: Are the choices you make in your visual practice the same sort of choices you made in your dissertation research? Jennifer Hare: I am not […]
‘Congregation’ is a site specific installation , a convergence of a multitude of cast, ceramic vessels.
Eilidh Wilson is in her final year studying Art, Philosophy, Contemporary Practices at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. a-n Art Student: Are the choices you make in your visual practice the same sort of […]
“Are the choices you make in your visual practice the same sort of choices you made in your dissertation research?” We put this question to three student members who have recently completed dissertations and are now working towards degree shows…
Last week brought about the culmination of a collaborative project I have been working on for a few weeks. Part of our course requires us to work collaboratively in a group of 3 students to use a project space (empty […]
It is amazing when out of the blue some stranger or distant acquaintance shows a deep interest and acknowledgment of one’s work. This happened to me last Saturday and what a tonic it was! Late last year I began to […]
We’ve been on shifting sands at BIAB. Sometimes it happens that life abruptly pushes us into new territory and you could say that we become exiled in a way. The more I work on the Spanish Civil War, and travel […]
While making my cine frame pieces, I have been thinking about an essay I wrote earlier in my degree about Cornelia Parker. I love her work, and my essay looked at several pieces, including one series that connects strongly with […]
A new project encouraging people to vote launches across the UK in April, with a series of billboards featuring works by artists Bob & Roberta Smith, Fatima Begum, Janette Parris and Jeremy Deller. Plus a competition to find a fifth artwork created by a first-time voter is open for entries.
The latest sculpture for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, Hans Haacke’s Gift Horse, has been unveiled.
