
Olympic legacy: a dissenting voice
The co-editor of The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State, makes a case for an Olympic legacy that veers from the time-worn official narrative.
The co-editor of The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State, makes a case for an Olympic legacy that veers from the time-worn official narrative.
Anyone fond of the question ‘but is it art?’ will have a field day if they visit Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege during the Olympics, but they will probably have a bounce on it too.
10/7/12 Camden Arts Centre Get the message 2012. In conversation with artists Georgie Manly and Judith Brocklehurst, with Jeremy Deller. A heartwarming 10th-year celebration of work with kids from three SEN schools. Interesting juxtaposition with Bruce Lacey Experience (curated by […]
Govan, Glasgow International Festival
28 April 2012
Glasgow Green, Glasgow
20 April – 7 May 2012
It’s been a little while since my last post and that’s mainly because I contravened my rule of not doing any unrelated performances. And so, last night I found myself interpreting four performance scores from 1970 in a cold warehouse […]
Professional Practice. Working at Bay Art Gallery today, I thought I should get the professional side of things sorted today, and so my official website is now complete, and business cards with the according information are on their way, huzzahs […]
Before the beginnings of the Easter break I had a tutorial about my plans for the degree show. My tutor suggested that I needed to go galleries over the holiday and work out what it was that really interested me […]
After the event For the past week I have been developing my proposal and I visited London to see the Jeremy Deller and David Shrigley show at the Hayward gallery. I do love the Hayward it is my favourite place […]
Just watched the Jeremy Deller Culture Show programme and feel really bad – what a lovely bloke – what interesting work – I had never realised. The press portrayal of his work never seems very interesting and in the past […]
OpenAIR, the first annual members’forum of AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation, offers a unique platform for artists’ dialogue and debate, empowered and enabled through speakers drawn from very different disciplines and fields of work, all committed to campaigning for effective change.
Jack Hutchinson reports from the awards ceremony of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards.
‘Artists’ Books: Potent Spaces for unusual voices or vanity publishing for the favoured few?’ Presentation by Sara Wajid, first published in November 2005 on the Future forecast: Curated space online think-tank.
Evidence-based recommendations on: Identifying the ‘new practices’ model, Valuing peer networks, Redefining public accountability, Supporting location and community and New ‘brand image’ for artists.
Reading ‘Spotlight on arts funding’ in a-n Magazine, it certainly feels like we’re living in interesting times. I can’t help but see it as a time of opportunity as much as threat.
One of my paintings is to be auctioned tomorrow in aid of the Pakistani Floods Appeal at Deda in Derby . My modest contribution, Run Rabbit Run will be auctioned alongside artwork by celebrated artists such as Julian Opie and […]
This year’s visual arts recipients of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists are Angela de la Cruz, Luke Fowler, Christina Mackie, Ben Rivers and Lindsay Seers.
I’ve been doing some homework (reading, as always) and in the course of telling my patient husband about what I had read, we had a bit of a verbal tussle. But I’m very grateful for the tussle because it sorted […]
AS IGNORANT AS THE EXTREMISTS THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE. I seemed to wake up in a bad mood this morning. This is becoming a far more common occurrence as the weeks wind on. I got up in a […]
Still a month until I start my third year at Trent and I’m starting to consider what I have done with my summer. I’d hoped to spend more time in London taking in the Blockbuster summer exhibitions. I managed to […]
I have spent several days in limbo. Separated from my companion and my usual routine I have achieved very little. In my new largely sedentary lifestyle, I have however reacquainted myself with satellite TV and its frightening array of televisual […]
Latest Digest to be read in reverse Thursday, 11 February 2010 Lost post I spent twenty minutes writing a post about my visit to Islington Mill today. Just as I added the last picture the screen went blank. All was […]
Twitter, London
14 January 2010
Regents Park , London
15 – 18 October 2009
Regents Park , London
15 – 18 October 2009