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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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

  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 […]