I’ve looked at the list of artists that Mona gave me in the tutorial on Friday. The list includes: Phyllida Barlow, Sonia Gomes, Shin Smith, Michelle Stewart and Sara Barker. With the more abstract works, I wasn’t sure what it […]
07 November 2020 Themes Health, bodies, communities, expression, trauma, stress, somatics. Tentacles of inquiry Reflecting on first hand experience of Long COVID. Bodies go wrong because we’re human. Realities of body and brain exhaustion. Current situation means people are enduring […]
AN MENTOURING BLOG-BEX MASSEY 2019-2020 I was lucky enough to receive a-n Mentoring 2019-2020. This comprised of four hour long (which happily usually ran over) sessions via Skype with the fabulous Lucy Day. Lucy is an independent curator, artists mentor and […]
I wanted to distort the actual work this time. I wasn’t sure of this while creating The Haze of Social Media, I was scared to damage the breasts but I became more confident and decided to place the breast in a cup […]
(First published on The Other Side) This post is about the sheer emotional labour of managing neurotypicals’ cognitive styles and preferences. This is heightened when autistics find themselves in a minority of one in almost any situation where our own […]
I have received two invitations to fill in an ’artists’ questionnaire’ for Region Uppsala. After crossing the rather alarming box ’age 46 – 65’(!) came a series of relatively simple questions that woke rather complex response in me. In summary […]
Having a week long residency in the cubed space at University of Suffolk has been a really good learning experience. It’s a unique space with some interesting challenges, and I would of loved having an extra week to carry on […]
I wrote some notes for my talk at the Love Arts event yesterday and although I didn’t read this verbatim it’s the basis of what I said: Love Arts My attitude is that everyone has mental health just like […]
05/10/20 – I had week 1 and 2 of CUBED, a space to practice/work with installing our work. Here is the space I had to work with as well as the poster I designed for my exhibition. It was scary […]
Writing the application for a two-year artist’s award – fantastic that such things exist here in Sweden – was a great process. Needless to say if I get it I will be over the moon. My proposal is for tailor-made […]
Today I had my Pecha Kucha presentation which I was dreading but it went really well. I found last years Pecha Kucha very useful even though I didn’t want to admit at the time because it went awfully (I guess […]
Analogue and digital collaboration exploring ideas around Co-operation, Moderation and Equality
Having two blogs isn’t working this time… It’s working much better over on my website where it’s all in one place. Just because I’ve previously had a “project blog” in addition to the main blog (Threads) doesn’t mean I always […]
Having two blogs isn’t working this time… It’s working much better over on my website where it’s all in one place. Just because I’ve previously had a “project blog” in addition to the main blog (Threads) doesn’t mean I always […]
Yasmine Rix reviews the podcast that investigates what artists do and why.
There was a feature on the radio about new film celebrating the life and achievements of education reformer Anna Whitlock. Listening while making breakfast my mind wandered to who I might make film about … Eugène Jansson of course! I […]
so here we are, near end of august, weather is wet and warm – as normal. the chimney has been swept today a normal thing for this time of year. we have plans for a curry tonight, one of our […]
In my research to understand more about climate issues for our next KlangHaus ventures, I came across the idea of vertical farms. Vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers inside a building in a controlled […]
Working in our individual studios we meet three times in the day. Here are our individual reflections and thoughts from the day’s actions and events. Louisa Chambers: Stopping all distractions today by turning off all digital devices (including the radio) […]
Monday: Erika and I will be showing in the adjacent galleries at Uppsala Artists’ Club in January. Earlier in the summer we exchanged a few emails and on Monday afternoon we met up for a chat. We had met at […]
In the middle of a pandemic, amidst the pain and anger that erupted as a result of the George Floyd murder, it is hard to make art that captures this point in time. Yet, The symbolism of the Four Horsemen seems perfectly suited to these imperfect times.
Thursday and Friday afternoon were spent (re)photographing old artworks that I had either documented poorly or not at all. The photographs are definitely better than those that they replace though I am sure that could still be better. I […]
There is something very appealing about the idea of having my own studio. I mean a studio that I do not share with someone. It would be great to have a creative space where I don’t have to think about […]
upon returning to the research for prism, i feel the need to make some notes for a possible essay to accompany this work sometime in the future. it’s origins are from the early 1990’s. a time where i was making […]
