Sitting in studio space. About to start some research for my first draft chapter for my dissertation. Reading ‘ Man with a Blue Scarf’. A book written about sitting for a portrait painted by Lucian Freud. Hope it will give […]
We talk to John Moores Painting Prize 2012 winner Sarah Pickstone, the prize’s patron Peter Blake, and judge George Shaw.
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
29 March – 12 May 2012
Thursday 23 February. Another super sunny day quite like a Summer day in the UK. Halfway through concreting the studio floor but still a lot of work to do before completion. Working outside creating a wild garden is therapeutic I […]
Okay, i’m stressed. Haven’t been on here in the past month as after my portfolio assessment i decided that i pretty much hate my semesters worth of work (don’t worry, i haven’t done anything drastic! And it wasn’t that my […]
Yesterday I spent a few hours mixing up colours and trying to choose between shades of grey for my final piece. My world is looking fairly monochrome after staring at so much grey but I have finally settled on a […]
Opera Gallery, London
26 January – 15 February 2012
Hemingway Art, Oxford
9 October – 6 November 2011
GLENN IBBITSON “CONSIGNMENT” STUDIO 75 is very proud to be presenting a solo show by the painter Glenn Ibbitson.We persuaded him to leave the dramatic mountains and stormy seas of Wales to come to the filthy big Smoke to show […]
Pots of Liquid Flesh…last part Nochlin, who famously asked first in 1970 and again in 1980, ‘Why have there been no great women artists?” is impressed with Saville’s ‘painterliness’ and thinks she is one of the most interesting and exciting […]
Pots of Liquid Flesh It was a Friday evening. Mike and Bill were playing chess and I was surfing the internet searching for images of Lucian Freud’s paintings. Suddenly I stumbled across a painting by Jenny Saville, and the hairs […]
Sarah Harvey, Promise.
FA22 – This module I have decided to continue with portrait painting, in oils. It is what I am interested in and is the reason why I started my fine art degree. I have outlined on my learning plan, to […]
Wallace Collection, Manchester Square
14 October 2009 – 14 January 2010
Alex Hetherington on the San Francisco art scene.
i woke with a handful of beans and hoped they would last for most of the day. it didnt start too well tho 30mins spent on the train going nowhere, made me 5mins late for a tutorial. it turned out […]
i sat on 'my' bench today. it is under some trees. i sat on it on monday. i sat on it the friday before that. in total i sat on the bench for 6 hrs. i was playing a game. […]
Apartment, Manchester
17 January – 29 February
Apartment, Manchester
17 January – 29 February 2008
News in October that twenty-three ‘leading’ artists are to donate artworks to the Tate collection prompted a flurry of debate across the visual arts world. It raised the issue of whether it is a good thing for artists, at any […]
