It’s About Art I needed a reminder really, as a way of redirecting and reordering my thinking. My friend and fellow blogger Stuart Mayes has the sign “It’s About Art” written large and hung in his studio. This is a […]
Two a-n members from the Bristol-based group that makes Modern Queers – a print newsletter for the digital age ‘for queers by queers’ – talk to a-n’s Ellen Wilkinson about creating queer community, highlighting queer histories, and invite you to submit to the next issue.
the residency will soon be in the last month and as this approaches i want to reflect how the year has split into four quarters for me. to begin, i reiterate this was a student residency within the creative incubation […]
Agency of Realised Worlds exhibition celebrates the life work of the Artist Clem Archibald. This exhibition is a collaboration between Artist Clem Archibald and Curator Sarah Francis. Heading down to APS I first meet the curator Sarah Francis for a […]
Supermarket is an amazing event … what struck me most this year are the opportunities that it offers … perhaps I am particularity alert to this as my sabbatical year fast approaches … as I think about the direction of […]
The Supermarket team is same as last year – with the addition of one of last year’s volunteers. It is so nice to see everyone again, it all feels so familiar. And it great to say hello to the exhibitors […]
I knew I wanted a drawing element to my degree show to work alongside the photographic element. In thinking about this side of my practice, I have considered the hierarchies of my drawing. What is most important to me in […]
Less than a fortnight after requesting a year’s sabbatical – to focus on my own work, and take a much needed extended break from my job at the council – and about a week after it all being agreed and […]
The range of activity … emotion … engagement … within one working week is quite remarkable – this week has perhaps been a particularly extreme case – two days at the council job, a day split between catching up […]
I attended a Social Media Roundtable with Claire Culley, Head of Business at University of Suffolk hosted by Ladies, Wine and Design Ipswich. This made me consider more carefully the purpose of social media and how I can use it […]
Sometimes, that is to say now, transparency can seem unnecessary and cruel. It doesn’t help me to know that the arts council approved 24% of applications for the artists’ working grants when mine was one of the 76% that was […]
I am in that weird headspace that having a cold gives one … or at least gives me … I should have been on a site visit on Wednesday, I should have been at a seminar on Thursday, I […]
In another foray into print-making techniques this weekend I attempted copperplate etching in my kitchen. The grand idea was an Arthur Rackham-esque quality print to use for an open call submission. Having attended a wonderful workshop at the Bury Print […]
I need intellectual … mental … stimulation! Those two lectures at Mejan have made me realise how much I need to engage with intellectual … academic ? … discussion around practice. The question is how. It would be great to […]
a-n is offering bursaries of between £500 to £1,500 for continued professional practice and creative development.
Artist commission from Cheshire West and Chester Council
A weekend of tidiness, tea and cake in my studio yielded quite a few sales, which definitely means I’ll have some cash to spend when I’m in America. So that’s a relief. It also started and continued a few conversations […]
I’ve written this for the sake of argument. The one-sided digital gaze The phenomenon of social media and youtubers talking about their daily lives – I find it strange, almost perverted that thousands of strangers download and watch their content. […]
A quiet Sunday morning after an intense … busy … exciting … full … week. I drank my second up of coffee listening to another of Margaret Heffernan’s wonderful Radio 3 Essays on Art and Uncertainty. This one circling around […]
It is at least another two months before I hear whether or not my application for an artist’s working grant has been successful and I have promised myself that I am not going to make any rash decisions until I […]
(I should have kept my mouth firmly closed! One of the parcels got lost along the way… fortunately it was found. It arrived safely in Jamestown NC, rather than Jamestown NY. I’ve been informed that is, at last, in a […]
