Michael Landy Lecture Yesterday the 1st of April the university had a visiting artist called Micheal Landy who is known for such works as, Breakdown, Scraphead Services and Closing Down Sale. Now he is not an artist that particularly links […]
Ah yes – a reasonable night of sleep results in a very full day of creativity. Well, it all turned-out not quite as planned today. I was looking forward to attending a lecture by YBA Michael Landy at UCS, to […]
Funds will be used to purchase new works for UK museums.
Whilst doing some research, I have looked at Saints Alive by Michael Landy. His exhibition consists of seven sculptures.They are made from images and details from the National Gallery to which he has combined with recycled machinery,broken toys and various […]
Rubbish Conversation with Lars Tharp at the Hepworth, Wakefield, 19/01/14 Lars Tharp: You’ve brought in an installation. This is what I’d call an installation. Alice Bradshaw: This is the Cuba Collection and this one is from Essen in Germany. LT: […]
Continuous Project Altered Daily Another minor disaster to add to the Catalogue of 2013 Destruction (see post #126 26 November 2013). I’m not sure if since I’ve been studying rubbish, things have been becoming rubbish more often or whether I’ve […]
Michael Landy in conversation with Richard Calvocoressi Leeds Art Gallery 30/11/12 At the end of a day long conference at the Henry Moore Institute, Richard Calvocoressi, Director of the Henry Moore Foundation, introduced artist Michael Landy with a few notes […]
Michael Landy in conversation with Richard Calvocoressi Leeds Art Gallery 30/11/12 …continued Landy also showed us his film on Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York (1960) entitled H.2.N.Y. (2007). He cited Tinguely: He said “It should come from the dump […]
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Korean artist Haegue Yang at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Michael Landy at the National Gallery, and photographic viewpoints of the city in Manchester.
Following the previous two blog posts, Islington Mill Art Academy members Jenny Walden and Rachel Newsome critically respond to Jared Szpakowski’s visual blog: http://threeteabagsinanenvelope.tumblr.com Jenny Walden, 23 August 2013 10:48 – I know the works assembled on the blog are […]
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
29 June – 4 September 2013
So it’s been a while since my last post. Running an arts space and managing other parts of life have meant that arts practice has been put on the back burner, as is unfortunately and inevitably the lot of many […]
Drawing Room’s Drawing Biennial 2013 presents over 200 A4 works by an international line-up of artists.
Black Dog Publishing, London
1 October 2012
Currently Reading: Harriet Hawkins – Visions of Excess: Michael Landy’s Break Down and the work of Georges Bataille. Published in Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, October 2010 Hawkins talks about Landy’s work Break Down as “unbuildings” and compares to Bataille’s […]
Culture Now: Michael Landy Published on YouTube on 27 Jul 2012 by ICALondon Michael Landy in conversation with ICA director Gregor Muir on Scrapheap Services (1995) having to shred 2000 misprinted crates, cataloguing the entirety of his world belongings which […]
Current Reading: Commentary by Michael Crang – Negative images of consumption: cast offs and casts of self and society (2012) Environment and Planning A, volume 44, pages 763 – 767 “There has been a recent spate of artistic work focusing […]
Annabel Tilley talks to Gary Hume about twenty-five years of practice, prizes and paint.
A survey of commissioning projects and public art consultancies around the UK.
Templars Square and Ark-T Community Centre, Oxford
1 February – 10 June 2011
I have progressed a great deal recently; just by being in a space, I have been able to put a good number of my sketched ideas into practice. The last couple of weeks have allowed me to see that unless […]
Time to start MAKING……. Over the last month, I have been so consumed by thoughts of repetition and collecting that I have inadvertently (if only temporarily) disregarded the physical making element of the work. I have recently realised that there […]
In many ways including personal life and ill health it is not solely artists, academics, subjects and materials, that have influenced and influence decisions in my work. When i did the ‘mini retrospective’ it was clear to see that there […]
Amazed how much it all means to me to do the Degree Show its not long now! But it has taken me a long time to manage to be at this stage, and be actively involved in making work and […]
