AMY- Mixing bowls belching out heaps of savoury snacks, a myriad of multi-coloured drinks; syrupy, cloying cavity catalysts, a fluffy pink mask sails past at eyesight- was that, is that my chum behind there? Speakers blare corny anthems, everyone is […]
I’ve been really busy since getting back from Exeter. DAD has three projects on the go which is great. We are having to streamline our processes! In other words run more effective meetings, introduce the idea of project teams and […]
I spent Friday and Saturday at the NOTES on a Return symposium at the Laing Gallery. This two-day event rounded off a series of artist talks and new commissions in relation a number of artist performances which took place at […]
Alice Ladenburg graduated in 2008 with a BA (Hons) in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art. Continuing to live in Scotland’s capital, she works four days a week in the commercial art world at Ingleby Gallery, taking part […]
I have my laptop at the studio today.This evening I’m making a presentation to the artists who have studios here at wip:sthlm.There is never an ideal day or time to do this kind of thing. Friday is the end of […]
The next day, the last official day of the residency, we went in search of Macbeth in earnest. A chance sighting the morning before placed him somewhere near the forestry shed where the ‘whiskey bottle cloak’ lived. When we found […]
putting a proposal together. i think its good and would work and thats the best i can do. going to hand it in and cross fingers. tho i do recall someone saying they are fed up of spending time putting […]
On this question of artists explaining/conceptualising/justifing what they do by intelectual juggelery to others. I am able to see it from a slightly different position because I can use time, looking back 20 years or more at this issue. I […]
Its been an intense week trying to get in a loads of proposals…organising all those forms and editing what I’ve written over and over to make sure its really good at times drove me insane! Its good to do I’m […]
Artists’ employment status and livelihoods were the hot topics at a meeting that took place in August between Visual Arts Ireland’s Chief Executive, Noel Kelly and AIR advisers Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Sally Sheinman and Caroline Wright.
Alice Bradshaw and Matthew Geraghty discuss Temporary Art Space’s six-month tenancy in the council-run Piece Hall in Halifax.
Performance 1 & Event 1 Rub Me Up The Wrong Way 2: The Live Art Supergig Norwich Arts Centre 25.07.09 I performed as part of other/other/other, with our SPILL-premiered piece “Longwinded in Five Parts”. This piece is about generating sounds […]
Lucy Harrison hello Alex, seems we’re both showing in Bath at the same time- I went last week and your project sounds great! Maybe see you there some time. Lucy Alex Pearl Hi Lucy that would be lovely, that reminds […]
Goldsmiths, London
18 – 22 June 2009
Wirral Metropolitan College, Birkenhead
1 September 2008 – 30 June 2009
After studying Art History for a year at Goldsmiths College in 2006, Sarah Rowles undertook a Foundation course at Camberwell College of Art in order to re-enter Goldsmiths on the BA Art Practice course. She is about to go into […]
Almost a year since I first stepped off the Cal-Mac Ferry, I finally returned to Eigg. I’ve spent almost a year proposing, planning, and preparing, and it feels as if I have already done the project a hundred different ways […]
Jane McGrath 5th August 2009So I had a good think on the train down from London, trying to locate what it is about Tina’s work that fascinates me and how I see this as potentially relevant to both my practice […]
Maternity/paidblog: So, this post is quite a personal topic, but something I have been pondering or worrying over for a while, without conclusion or useful thoughts. Perhaps the good blog readers will be able to offer some advice/ own experiences? […]
From Sandon to Norwich, from Telephone boxes and chippies to all female performance with the titles ‘women, what are they all about/ or ladies, ladies, ladies and their ways…’ Yes, A true reflection of my practice and my collaborations I […]
There are things and experiences that I enjoy such as line and colour, paper and paint. I am just searching. I have been working on some more photographs of sunsets at St Ives. There are hundreds of thousands of sunset […]
The project I am working on is expanding. I have invited friends and aquaintances from facebook and beyond to whistle a tune thus: ‘Hayley Lock is inviting everyone she knows to whistle a tune for a project I am doing.The […]
The Bird man of Alcatraz shows Bert Lancaster is a ‘lifer’ who gets up every day to tend his collection of birds; he feeds and nurtures them lovingly. He cures their illnesses and becomes an expert on them. In a […]
To engage with a practice that confronts problems can be problematic, but it also produces possibility: this comes from re-assessing understandings and concepts that come from the things I have learned and characteristics I have attained… things familial. Many projects […]
This journey has been an emotional and creative roller coaster for me. Many artists have articulated the patches of insecurity we all go through but Andrew Bryant has touched on a particular one of mine. ‘Have I found my practice?’ […]
