Humanising…
Humanising…
Bringing together a group of refugees and asylum seekers showing their their vulnerable side within an exhibition.
Humanising…
Bringing together a group of refugees and asylum seekers showing their their vulnerable side within an exhibition.
The effects the combination of COVID-19 and Brexit has on self-representing international artists planning to exhibit in London.
There is this idea(l) of the artist creating art for art’s sake, living la vie bohème, being envied for their freedom and creativity and having the liberty to express their individuality as they please. Is this actually the case though?
A-N member artists are invited to submit proposals for their own Solo Show in one of our contemporary art galleries within a series of dolls houses in South London.
Curated by Eldi Dundee who sees this micro curation project as an extension of her collaborative art practice.
Artists are bringing their £10.8 billion per year industry in to play to help lead this country out of darkness.
Here are my notes (09/2019-05/2020) of the framework of ‘artful leadership’: artful+novel ways forward led by (neurodivergent) thinkers/makers embedded within socio-political structures to catalyse social/cultural change amid COVID-19+ future novel challenges.
The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, returns to the Old Truman Brewery in March for the 19th London edition of the vibrant artist-led fair.
Ballpoint Artist behind Joker Johnson opens solo exhibition
Misbehaving Bodies Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery at the Wellcome Trust I first became aware of Jo Spence’s work when a first year student in Nottingham. Having left London due to a chronic pain condition or two, I had […]
“ We owe the invention of the arts to deranged imaginations” wrote the essayist Saint Evermond in the seventeenth century” Breakfast at Sotheby’s -Phillip Hook 2018 Do you have to be deranged to be an Artist? I don’t think so […]
Gran Fury Read My Lips – In context now Auto Italia 2nd of October – 2nd December 2018 Wow finally a show marking the historical and political context of the AIDS crisis in the 80’s and 90’s. For the first […]
In 2018 I received a professional bursary to understand the basics of using machine learning in art. Across these four blog posts I describe what I learnt.
A short city based residency with 12 European artists
While escapism has a bad-reputation (i.e “escape from the political”), I am interested in the need for practices of escape in order to both cope with the present (a respite!), and imagine something radically different.
In February 2017 I proposed a research trip to a cluster of projects and event in Germany and the Netherlands which are situated across a variety of my artistic interests and resonate with several of the projects I am currently […]
A Preview of the H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G exhibition at Phoenix Brighton.
this is a blog run by the keep it complex collective to document our a-n bursary funded DIGESTING POLITICS series
Notes from a month long residency about the challenge to rediscover figuration after a year of non objective painting
A blog in response to attending the opening of documenta14 in Kassel via the a-n travel bursary
During the opening week of her Scotland + Venice film, ‘Spite Your Face’, artist Rachel Maclean spoke to Emily Sparkes about politics, inappropriate nose-touching and pasta pomodoro.
I am pleased to announce my participation as an Artist in Residence with the ground breaking ‘Art In Manufacturing’ project. As part of the first ever National Festival of Making, supported by arts commissioners Super Slow Way and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Arts Council England funded project about the melodramatic history of the Coronet Theatre in the Elephant and Castle, London. It is closing after 145 years of theatre, film, music and clubbing events.
Drawing made after a recent visit to the Robert Rauschenberg exhibition at Tate Modern and linking this to the UK’s formal withdrawal from the EU.
For the past several months I have been thinking a lot about art in a Brexit, Trump, Syria world, as art appears to be coasting along in a rather vegetative state nonetheless. This isn’t necessarily a call for a […]