The opportunity arose to apply for a Graduate Student Residency at Art Space Portsmouth (ASP). This was my chance to have a studio space for 6 months along with 6 mentoring sessions and a solo 2 week exhibition at GASP, […]
At 8am students are already arriving at the studios. The Public Art course has a great space, or at least I thought so until Yijia, my host and lecturer on the course, says that other disciplines have much better studios. […]
This month has been a proper UP and DOWN in my practice. UP because I have been pleased with the reception of “La Mujerzuela (The floozy)” from people. I know that there is more potential in playing with these objects […]
Day 17 – Black to Bloom No 2 Black to Bloom describes the ‘blooming’ of the pigment as it spreads out through the glaze. The pigment diffuses and mimics the circular spots already on the canvas. This painting is composed […]
It has been some time since I posted about anything other than cinema reviews and that is all going to change by not neglecting this blog from painting anymore. Since finishing the Graduate Residency with AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent in […]
The £60,000 Contemporary Art Society Annual Award has been won by Elizabeth Price, in conjuction with an Oxford-based partnership led by the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology.
Artists/Practitioners sharing this Loopart13 November residency (pt. 5) Louise Oates http://www.louiseoates.co.uk/ http://www.source.ie/graduate/2013/londcollba/londcollba_student_08_41_27_13-05-13/londcollba_student_08_41_27_13-05-13.php Evy Jokhova http://www.evyjokhova.co.uk/ and if that wasn’t enough: http://www.saatchionline.com/Eeevy and! http://www.saatchionline.com/Eeevy Impressive stuff and a lot of reading and intense ‘looking’ to do, but dipping in as and […]
This year’s engage International Conference took place in Birmingham and tackled the current period of ‘extraordinary change’ in art education across the UK while also exploring what an uncertain future may hold. AIR Council member Caroline Wright, who was presenting at the conference, reports.
Exhibition dates and project details announced for second edition of major moving image awards, featuring new commissions by artists in the first five years of their practice.
Vision and more vision this week. My focus has increased and I feel that I’m making things happen (with great phsyical/mental effort!). The lampshades have finally arrived to a pleasure point where I’m happy with what I see and what […]
Victoria Warehouse Hotel, Manchester
25 October – 10 November 2013
I’ve been leading a double life for the past month as the Lincoln residency overlapped with my year long University of Nottingham residency. I can now confirm that I have moved into a studio in the old Dairy on Jubilee […]
Sir Anthony Caro, the pre-eminent British sculptor, has died of a heart attack aged 89, his family have confirmed.
In November 2009 an Employment Tribunal in Reading ruled that workers engaged on an expenses-only basis are entitled to payment at least in line with the national minimum wage, in addition to payment for the holiday they accrue.
2nd part of today’s progresses. When I thought it was all going to crumble, I found light and hope on the form of 13 pretty pink Victorian lampshades in a kind of market thing on my way back to pick […]
Turners Warehouse, Newlyn, Cornwall
12 – 22 September 2013
Have I started the course in the right away? Am I wasting time by aiming to high? Should I just consider other options to create the same effects? I don’t really know, however, it feels right to have some time […]
Katerina Athanasopoulou has won the Lumen Prize 2013 for her digital fine art work that explores times of crisis through a return to Plato’s hypothesis of the human soul.
Statue of Liberty This is the first piece of work I have done since I graduated from my Fine Art Degree this time last year. I work full time and im determined not to let my art dream die. But […]
Well first post. It’s been a few weeks since I started this position but it’s only really felt like it has started in the last few days. I’m located in our sculpture studios, close to where I constructed my degree […]
Well I have secured the Sculpture Graduate Fellowship at Northumbria and I am now also the Co-ordinator of our student project and exhibition space. I have started a new blog here – www.a-n.co.uk/p/3888221 Hopefully it will document my transition into […]
