Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler give their recollections of an ambitious one-day land art workshop in rural Herefordshire that involved nearly 200 participants, several bales of straw, and a Cessna aircraft.
I realise that my blogging is a bit sparce recently but life seems to running at 100 miles an hour, mostly with the sort of school work/ hospitals etc which earn me my living, sports days, music concerts and a […]
I visited the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition at the Burton Art Gallery in Bideford on friday. It was an interesting experience, which made me acknowlege the importance of drawing in my own practice. This prize shows the huge diversity in […]
I-MYU Projects, London
19 November – 19 December 2009
Organisation and Co-Ordination. I am part of the crew of the Cor Blimey Artists helping organise our open studios exhibition, Fraction. 4-6th December. I think there are about 25 of us and I have been collecting info for a press […]
I've just got back from a really good, thought provoking all-day symposium at the Regional Print Centre in Wrexham, timed to coincide with the Wrexham Print International 2009. There was a particular focus on the role of artists' blogs with […]
I was very pleased to find out that my piece ‘House’ got accepted into the Margaret Harvey Open exhibition. Finally, after months of it sitting looking at me in the studio, feeling sorry for its self, rejected and unconsidered, it […]
Last week was a little quieter. I decided last minute to enter my ‘House’ into the Margaret Harvey Open Exhibition in St Albans. This meant making sure it would get through their very particular criteria like max size, plinth presentation […]
part two …I then continue, ‘houses not actually as rough as I would of thought for this side of town.’ As I approach I scan the row of shops…hairdressers ‘Shall I just go in and get it all cut off?’, […]
This last week has been a very busy one. After being away from my artwork for a week I had four days to get my piece for the Jerwood drawing prize entry finished. I bought it home so I could […]
I've been particularly busy this week, beginning it off by re-doing my website, it started off as a little brush up on things but turned into a massive change around that seemed to have taken ages! Today I had a […]
Artist-led strategies to support professional development have often proved to be the most successful.
Kate Walters, I can’t hear you (detail), watercolour, gouache, oil and graphite on shellac, 2006.
Contents include: AIR membership scheme launched and Artists’ advisory group introduced. Charlotte Hodes wins Jerwood Drawing Prize. Edinburgh’s Annuale III reviewed plus shows in Isle of Mull, Vale of Glamorgan, Leigh and a radio broadcast. Catherine Wilson on her experiences […]
It was raining. Real rain; I could feel the ink washing off the drawings I carried in a bundle under my arm.
I’m drawn towards work that offers two opposing features or truths.
Roy Exley reports on the ‘Emergency’ exhibition and symposium in Portsmouth.
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts
Centre, Coventry
27 September – 5 December
Wimbledon School of Art has announced its newly-formed partnership with University of Gloucestershire and Jerwood Charitable Foundation in delivery of the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Wimbledon School of Art’s Centre for Drawing has now become the prize’s administrative centre. Anita Taylor, […]
