For the past few weeks we on the publicity team have been busy establishing a network of social media strands that will hopefully give an insight into the preparation process of putting on the degree show, and as a result […]
Following on from the last post, the formmative assessment went very well. I was given 2:1’s for both my modules at this stage with a few weeks remaining so I’m hoping that they will have improved in January. The past […]
THE DATE POSTED IS JANUARY 22nd, NOT DECEMBER 15th! I always felt I was an artist. At school I certainly was – I was the one that was good at drawing, but after leaving school I developed some kind of […]
‘Saatchi paints a scathing picture of the contemporary art world and says that being a buyer these days “is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar”. He says: “It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, hedgefundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and […]
Pangolin. Kings Place, London
17 – 27 October 2012
Decided to have a sketchbook/blog/painting day today and then a Dissertation day tomorrow. Started a new sketchbook today with a few pages on Damien Hirst and some initial rough sketches of some paintings I’m planning to create over the next […]
Over the past couple of years collecting has become a main focus in my studies and has fascinated me more and more. I have been intrigued by how artists collect, what they collect, why and how these collections are then […]
I’ve been burning the candle at both ends this week. And now I’m paying the price, so having a lie in with a cup of tea. Yesterday was spent at an open day for university, with my youngest son. Too […]
It’s been a busy weekend in Oslo, finally fulfilling my lucky all expenses paid trip; tusen takk to Headhunters / Momentum / Norwegian Embassy. I went to several galleries, went to the National Library of Norway, where “Move To Oslo”, […]
Everything must go at Liverpool’s Static gallery, but, as director Paul Sullivan explains, this is not a closing down sale.
Annabel Tilley talks to Gary Hume about twenty-five years of practice, prizes and paint.
ABSORB, INTEGRATE, CO-OPERATE…BUT DON’T STEAL Where do you stand in the great copyright debate, when one man’s stealing is another man’s artistic soup? It’s an issue oft mentioned in the music industry. I did used to think, like a lot […]
We picked a good time to catch up with Rosemary Marchant, right before her degree show in Brighton. After the install we then followed up with her plans for practice and research post-graduation… so here’s the before and the after!
It’s been way too long since I’ve written a post here on Blending Primaries, but it has been with good reason and lots of hard work as culprit. I was in London recently curating an exhibition called ‘What’s time got […]
Tate St Ives, St Ives
18 January – 7 May 2012
Finally got to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Tate Modern today – having failed a couple of weeks ago due to massive Damien Hirst queue slowing ticket office down. Brilliant – if you haven’t seen it GO! The last […]
I often ponder: “What is it about my practice that separates it from the conceptual mainstream?”. I keep coming back to this point: my work is not “about” ritual and the sacred. It is ritual and sacred. My work is […]
The great modernist artist Man Ray, (1890-1976) said you could not imagine what art would be like in 50 years time. “And even if you saw it,” he said, “you wouldn’t be able to understand it.” I thought of that […]
‘it starts with embarrassment and ends with hope’ I’ve just been watching Damien Hirst ‘The First Look’ on TV – an interview about his forthcoming exhibition at Tate Modern and I’ve pinched (in the spirit of his art) this quote […]
I.B.Tauris, London
1 – 3 February 2012
Modernism and Meaning From a Forum topic named ‘Should the ‘meaning’ of a work of art be obvious’ I am including this post I made as it relates to the whole modernist issue. A couple of issues interest me here. […]
Emily Speed kicked off a very lovely round up of personal achievements of the year gone by a few years ago on a-n and a few of us followed suit. One can find it hard to talk about achievements but […]
Artists and their families welcome government decision on the Artist’s Resale Right.
Orca Preliminary drawing for ‘Away from the Pod’: a life-sized (5m x 1.5m) drawing of a killer whale which will feature as part of ‘Under the Sea’, an exhibition curated by Rowena Hamilton which opens in January 2012 at Millennium […]
