Today spent time organising my sketch books and putting files in order in preparation for the degree show, I am feeling optimistically prepared so in a good place… even explored further new ideas for the ‘Mediated’ Installation… looking at Guy […]
Unmediated; Near Shoreline plaster of paris, animal, mineral, and vegtable. This work considers our unmediated response and physicality with nature. As humans we tend to see ourselves as not part of nature we see nature as different and to be […]
This week we take a walk to Walsall for a career-spanning survey of Richard Long’s prints, head for London to explore themes of image manufacture and exchange with Andreas Gursky, and catch Dan Dubowitz and Alan Ward’s exhibition in Manchester charting the recent refurbishment of the city’s Central Library.
Richard Long The Bold Paragraphs show extracts of my writing from my dissertation. Richard Long was the second artist that I looked at for my dissertation. Longs work different to Fulton’s was about the rearranging of the landscape that he […]
Referencing previous Blog: Fuchs, R.H. (1986) Richard long by R H Fuchs. Thames And Hudson. (EVAC). Banning, D. (2013) Sticks and stones: Richard Long and his love of the land Available at: http://prodimages.exhibite. com/www_jamescohan_com /Creative_Tourist_Banning _26_March_2013.pdf Accessed 12 November 2013) […]
In relation to my dissertation topic delving into the works and artistic profiles of Hamish Fulton and Richard Long, my process is something that I am questioning and looking into. Hamish Fulton and Richard Long are very process driven and […]
Connecting with nature are our sensory skills with nature dissappearing? This next qoute reminds us of sight, sound, smell, touch, feel, emotions,… “I have always loved the beach. The smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the […]
My work is still in an experimentation mode, currently trying to find how I myself articulate the natural environment. My studio space currently shows experiments with paint and mixed media pieces of work. My space also shows a range of […]
Ruth Payne The work I produced for Straight, the first stage of the collaboration, uses paper objects which have performed their primary function (shopping lists, brochures, paper napkins, free newspapers, opened envelopes, empty seed packets). These are the fragments machine-stitched […]
For this week’s must-see shows, we’re wrapping up warm in London, getting immersed in a fictional 70s exploitation movie in Manchester, and enjoying a comprehensive survey of British Land Art in Coventry.
This week’s must-see shows include a retro-futuristic survey of British sculpture at Lisson Gallery, drawing and language at The Drawing Room, and an art/architecture collaboration at BALTIC.
For our latest global snapshot of the next seven days (15-21 November 2013) in contemporary art, we’re in Seoul, Vienna, Abu Dhabi, New York and Milan.
This week’s selection, covering 25-31 October, takes us to New York, Singapore, Utrecht, Krakow and Minneapolis.
I’ve “discovered” painting with mud. (Gasp! horror- I usually work digitally) How did this come about? Well I have just been to Dollar Summer School. (Few outside the central belt of Scotland know about this unique school – now in […]
Christie’s International has announced that it is to close its Haunch of Venison galleries in London and New York to focus on the secondary art market.
Book Review, London
26 November 2012
BEINGHUMAN GOES TO KATHMANDU, NEPAL. Remember beinghuman? The collective that I am now part of… WELL, we are going to Nepal for the Kathmandu International Art Festival; beinghuman’s director Gaynor O’Flynn has curated the British Chapter of this wonderful festival! […]
Liverpool Biennial: The Medium is the Medium The event I was in Liverpool for yesterday was an afternoon of discussion on critical writing billed as, “A day of expert debate around why critical writing is important in a mature and […]
Tate Britain, London
12 March – 14 October 2012
If Lost Please Return Winter turns to spring Express meetings Radio towers Chimneys in a field, the train does not stop until Coventry Lou Reed songs in your sleep Seathwaite stepping stones Barrow in Furness, Keswick, Coniston The temporary company […]
Spike Island, Bristol
6 April – 17 June 2012
I keep expecting to get a phone call from the Chapel Gallery, informing me that my installation has been trampled on…. I find that the Easter breaks are generally hell in Art Galleries and some parents seem to think its […]
Penultimate day in Istanbul: Today has been long but productive. Things achieved: -meeting with the artists of Atilkunst in the tapestry room at Mimar Sinan University. Good to talk about TRADING STATION, discussed ways of trading work, ideas including mailing […]
I think my work is almost about nothing, It’s just about being there – anywhere – being a witness from the point of view of an artist. Richard Long Having just had two years of very intensive working, I felt […]
