2013 Degrees publication highlighting the best graduate art and design shows around the UK.Downloadable PDF version [size 6 MB]. Requires PDF reader.Issue also available in flip-page format (requires Flash) – including non-Flash version for mobile devices.
The third Cr8net creative industries conference, themed around ‘Digital Diversity’, started badly for our correspondent. But thanks to adept chairing and a whirlwind visit from Ed Vaizey, this annual one day event managed to transcend its achingly cool Shoreditch venue to explore some genuinely important issues.
After joining Degrees unedited in March 2013 Jasper Weinstein Sheffield has showed us there’s much more to his conceptual approach than a blade of grass. He tells us more as prelude to degree shows at Northumbria University.
Fine Arts BA(Hons) at York St John University is about innovation in current fine arts practice. Our programmes encourage creative and critical thinking through practice, to sustain, develop and extend the contribution of the fine arts to wider culture and […]
So over the past week or so I have starting working at BayArt Gallery again which I am very happy about, they have an exhibition on at the moment entitled Open Books which is a very interesting exhibition of artists […]
Working through my to do list and enjoying the last days in my current studio. Next week work begins to clear out the spaces where our final shows will take place. The college is quiet, you can walk through the […]
First interview done today for the MAFA course with the course leader. As he knows my work, we talked more about what to expect on Monday’s interview. I’m meeting again one of my teachers to do another mock up interview […]
Glasgow International announces the launch of two open funding strands for 2014 including the new Open Glasgow Bursary for final year students and recent graduates.
I have another exhibition opportunity coming up on Monday. It is set up by the Offquay collective – a group consisting mostly of recent Northumbria graduates – and is in celebration of their newly opening studio and project space (www.offquayarthouse.co.uk). […]
It feels like I have made a start today. Also the space that I will be exhibiting in degree show it will become available tomorrow. I bought quite a lot of fabrics today and started some sewing. I will have […]
Driver or pedestrian? I am currently having driving lessons. On the first lesson I had to learn where to rest my gaze, further forwards along the road. Not directly in front of me, like a pedestrian. Yesterday my instructor was […]
We’ll be using this blog over the next few months to share progress and document Anne’s project I didn’t see you there as it develops, including Anne’s making processes, Hand in Glove’s role as co-producers and the delivery of the […]
Jerwood Visual Arts and Forestry Commission England launch £30,000 commission to be realised anywhere within England’s Public Forest Estate.
There was a collective ‘oh xxxx’ in work last week as we were all given a letter containing our projected pensions on retirement. One of the perils of working in the arts I suppose. My dream of going back to […]
The last week has been a mad week for preparation and organisation for the degree show, about 6 weeks away now! Despite the massive task ahead it seems like we’re on track for a spectacular show and there’s starting to […]
Well the start of the Easter break has been really quite good so far. I discovered on Friday afternoon that my application to exhibit my work in Gallery North – the professional gallery based within Northumbria University -during the degree […]
Week 25: 4th – 10th MarchAfter all the planning and preparation, the time was finally here for the 16th International Contemporary Artist Book Fair. I’d spent a long time and a lot of effort on online promotion developing the website […]
During this week I have been building a website and managed to secure my own .com, definitely one of the perks of having an unusual name!I’ve been using the website host and builder squarespace6 which has been really useful and […]
It was a long time ago, when I last gave a sign of life on this blog.I have decided that it is time to change this. Thus, two weeks ago I had opportunity to attend at the Start-Up your Creative […]
Many events have happened recently, mainly positive. I visited Downstairs Gallery at Great Brampton House in Herefordshire to see Matt Brown’s exhibition, Force Quit. The work was beautifully produced and quite complex, visually. There were a number of pieces there […]
It’s back to the art world and back to blogging for me. I graduated from Norwich University of the Arts in June 2012, I put up my degree show and the next week went into full time work as a […]
Week 22: 11th – 17th FebruaryI often enjoy looking at the bigger picture and the different factors that connect things, so it was with this in mind that I set about contemplating this week’s blog post: the structures of education […]
In January, three UK makers began Watershed’s Craft + Technology Residencies, bringing together making and design with digital, networked technologies. Taking place in Bristol, Plymouth and Falmouth, we talk to the participants and discover how digital technology is influencing their practice.
