BaseNorth is in Berlin and involved with the New Life Berlin Festival organised by Wooloo. The Sandwich Box, Wooloo project gave us the opportunity to develop our work around the idea of regeneration. This project is of specific interest to […]
Festival of Contemporary Visual Art and Ecology
2-11 May
The week went fast. It was good to stand back from the workshop side of the project for a few days and assess things. I really enjoy working with people but it's hard to give enough attention to your own […]
Penny Jones explores the career of Andrew Tanner who has spent ten years as a designer maker developing many successful ranges of batch-produced ceramics.
Penny Jones profiles Fred Baier exploring the development of his career since the 1970s and commissions for an impressive range of private and public clients.
Brilliant news! The Lightbox Gallery, where my current project is based, has won the Art Fund Prize. This prize formerly the Gulbenkian Prize is an extremely prestigious one and well deserved in my opinion. The Gallery is not only a […]
The time is rapidly slipping away…we cleared the studios last week. This is a rather sad picture of all my possessions in a large blue bag. Goodbye to my desk forever ! I've been focussing on getting my portfolio sorted […]
The balloon and cactus piece – entitled This Is What Happens – is evolving. The latest change, which took place this evening, was influenced by a nine-year-old girl. The child in question, who is the neighbour of Kimi (my friend […]
Got into my space yesterday, floor looks better, spent most of the day working out the way my threads will work in the space, I have to make sure that I do not bloke Traceys space as you have to […]
Sarah Craske & Stacy Keeler, The Womens’ Land Army, found materials, plant and performance. Commissioned by Margate Rocks 08.
4 days left to my assessment, got into college today with the news that the floor in the sculpture studios needs a second coat, so that means I could not go into my space, hopefully tomorrow I can start doing […]
I can't quite believe I managed to finish setting up. I'm still 'coming down' I think, and certainly when I left on Friday, I was still full of left-over adrenaline. Coupled with a rising level of exhaustion, this gave me […]
In the second part of our focus on open studio events we profile four organisations providing space as well as the opportunity to exhibit and sell.
With this beautiful weather I'm finding it quite hard to get motivated. I was in Uni on Friday and the space moved on leaps and bounds. My helpers (and a few others who were at a lose end) helped me […]
Charles Danby reviews the work of Chloë Steele and considers the role of artist-curator duo Day and Gluckman whose notable track record continues throughout 2008-09 with a programme of five exhibitions for the law firm Collyer Bristow LLP.
