Recently The Metaverse has been bothering me. There’s a lot of chat about it in Virtual Reality circles, but I think scaring people with suggestions of strangers in vibrating pants is a bit alarmist. We need more good people in The Metaverse. Please join the good guys.
This was published just before the crisis, about artists using trains and sea routes to reach artists residencies. Now people are either stuck in their residencies or can’t reach them. Here are some pointers for when we can all travel again. Photo by me of Copenhagen Station.
David Hill Gallery, London
30 April – 30 July 2021
Last night, in the bar of a Premier Inn, in Devon, talking to two friends, I tried to understand why it bothers me so much that people ask me why I do not want to have children. I am 38, […]
I arrived during the preview week of the Venice Biennale as a recipient of an A-N Artist Bursary 2019. Curated by Ralph Rugoff, and named May You Live in Interesting Times, I wondered if the 58th International Art Exhibition could possibly […]
I have been looking at the work of Austrian avant-garde artist Renate Bertlmann for the last year and I recently visited the Austrian Pavillion in the Venice Biennale, where her work was exhibited. Bertlmann’s work consists of female figures who grapple […]
Part five of a series of blog posts documenting my research visit to the Finish Bioarts Society.
Selection of creative discoveries at the Venice Biennale 2017 with a bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company
For six months every two years, Venice’s Giardini, Arsenale and many splendoured palazzos play host to the Art Biennale. This year, titled Arte Viva Arte and curated by Christine Macel, promised ‘an extrovert movement from the self to the other, […]
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.
a-n bursary award to attend the Venice Biennale 2017 experienced through performance work, drawing the pavilions with feet. It was amazing.
The Lubomirov Angus-Hughes Centre for Contemporary Curation is proud to announce a solo show by Mark Woods curated by Vanya Balogh following his participation at the 56th Venice Biennale and the Gerwerbemuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland. The centre is located in 26 […]
2015 will see the Philippines showcase at The Venice Biennale, after a hiatus of 5 decades. A soul searching discovery with artist, Vanessa Scully.
Venice: a series of observations noted on a mobile phone….
Initial observations from a 4 day trip to the Venice Biennale 2015
Video and words from Venice Biennale 2015
A personal reflection on the Venice Biennale 2015.
herman de vries doesn’t believe in hierarchies; why one letter should rank taller than another. his name and everything associated with him is presented in lower case. i will show fidelity to this principle as his work was […]
Exhibiting at Venice Biennale over ten years ago, we never got to ride the Venice Biennale opening week as a spectator, which is much like a roller-coaster with its highs and lows and seeing everything at breakneck speed, compared to […]
What happens when you take the scoring system from one iconic European cultural event and apply it to another?
#longread #previewweek
Visual diary of the 56th Venice Biennale
When is the last time you were ‘seized with enthusiasm’? It was dodging the heat on San Giorgio that I stumbled into The Giorgio Cini Foundation and discovered four small books by Bruno Munari. They instantly catapulted my mind from […]
In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience Is not to leave’t undone, but keep’t unknown. (1) Time freezes, then melts. The medieval warrens barricading against the plundering Goths […]
2015 will see the Philippines showcase at The Venice Biennale, after a hiatus of 5 decades. A soul searching discovery with artist, Vanessa Scully.
My year has been punctuated by mentoring sessions made possible by the Re:View Bursary from a-n. Firstly, it’s important to say how great it was to be able to pay artists for their time and experience (and we all know […]
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