So Re-Connections then… Sounds good! Its that getting started thing, the blank canvas. But now its a blank screen with an even more unknown audience. This blog has come about as a result of putting together a proposal to the […]
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
16 January – 16 February
and other shows in Ireland
Critical attitudes on how art practice is dividing or uniting local, international and global practices has been alluded to since the beginnings of modernism; in 2008 these issues remain at the forefront of response to post-modern visual culture.
Leeds Art Gallery
22 November– 10 February
De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea Found a Kjell Torriset catalogue in the shop – I hadn’t seen his work before – really like the installations.Coffee and cake on the terrace – lots of ideas for new work. I […]
Last Post As promised this will be the final instalment in the Diary of a Foundling Artist. The show came down yesterday. I was working so couldn’t go down to help out so I just have to wait and see […]
Finished the 6.5 inch embroidery and it’s looks wrong, a bit pathetic, a bit weak – size does matter! It looks lost on the 14 inch square handkerchief. The trouble is that I want every aspect of my artwork to […]
‘After Babel..’ /’The Faiths of Others’ Faiths from around the world or equally likely from within a 1 mile radius, coming together in an audio installation at St. Luke’s Church in Liverpool. Loudspeakers through which prayers are played, the speakers […]
It’s been fascinating to watch the lively turnover of postings on Interface1 since its launch, both critical writing posted to Reviews unedited and a-n subscribers posting details of their upcoming shows on Interface What’s on.
Urban Field A symposium dedicated to contemporary craft practice is to be held this week in Surrey. Discussing rural and Urban crafts the content looks very good with some interesting speakers contributing. I am interested to note that Dr Ian […]
The new developments at the Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange have had a mixed response from local and national media, with three main strands.
Silas Kopf Silas Kopf is an American artist with a high profile for his marquetry he is an example of someone that seems very engaged with the practice it's tradition and history. With a degree in architecture his wood working […]
I've applied for funding to document recent work. The digital images I have aren't very good and as my practice has become more studio based the artworks seem to be harder for me to photograph well. The funding would be […]
Airport art, as I now like to call it, is the major problem facing biennales, biennials and art festivals today.
There are now over 200 contemporary art biennials across the globe, compared with four or five or twenty years ago.
There is something about a ceramics conference that can send a shudder up the spine.
I have been back at TVU for a month now, returning from a three week driving holiday in Spain straight into lectures. Knowing the staff already is a big boon, and key changes have made a difference to the atmosphere. […]
This is the longest gap in my blog since I started it in April. It’s not that nothing has been happening. Far from it. But the run up to the wedding and then a few glorious days in Venice (with […]
Straw Marquetry Marquetry isn't exclusive of wood, which I may have appeared to have overlooked so far. Shell, mother of pearl and straw are among other materials that are able to be inlaid in some form to be known as […]
Ceramic artists Elise Austrin, Karen Atherley, Jo Davies, Akiko Hirai and Joanna London are amongst exhibitors in ‘Handmade 07’, being held at Chelsea Old Town Hall 27-30 November.
Donkleywood, North Tyne valley, Falstone, Northumberland
1 September – 28 October 2007
Jerwood Space, London
19 September – 18 October 2007
Black Dog Publishing
Edited by Johanna Billing, Maria Lind and Lars Nilsson
Sara Haq on Judy Freya Sibayan, performance and conceptual artist, curator, publisher and museum.
S Mark Gubb profiles Studio Voltaire, the first and only artist-led gallery and studio complex in South West London.
