Last year for expedient reasons, mainly to make my day job more challenging, I developed an artist residency programme within a product design research centre Makers Using Technology.
In the final instalment of our ten-part end-of-year series, a-n’s new director – who took over in September following a three-month handover period – looks back over the last 12 months and looks forward to doing more for artists in 2015.
AUDIOBLOG – please click here I belong to The Songwriters’ Circle at mac Birmingham. (I know I’ve mentioned this before) At the end of each term we choose a song we have written and we perform it. Some of […]
i return quickly to add another reflective post because i’ve realised the importance of helping others to understand what it is i do. there is a slight paradoxical situation here. for the wider audience i’ve already set myself out as […]
the unexpected part of this blog has been the emergence of the possibility of this whole thing being a hobby. i know it’s not …….. it has been my full time occupation. however i have expereinced evidence that others might […]
Six a-n writers – based in London, Hastings, Glasgow and Edinburgh – pick, in no particular order, their top five UK exhibitions of the year.
today is the day …. sadly not for bears and picnics but for me to count up all the opportunities that i made contact with. i set myself the goal of applying to 12 and imaginatively used this in the title […]
My residency at Airspace Gallery is moving into its fifth month and getting ever closer to my Solo show which will be held on the 16th – 24th January 2015. Trip to London In November I spent a few days […]
R.B. KITAJ (1932–2007), La Pasionaria, 1969 So finally I made it to Pallant House Gallery to view Conscience and Conflict. A much anticipated viewing of any exhibition always runs the gauntlet of anti-climax, but there was no such trouble at […]
While strategies to pay artists better are forging ahead in the UK, this vital issue is also on high on the agenda in some other countries. Susan Jones reports on Working Artists: aspects of art and labour, a recent conference in South Korea which she also spoke at.
AUDIOBLOG – Click Here Last night was the end of term Songwriters’ Circle Showcase. I sang “Invisibility is not a Super-Power” I wrote the lyrics, Simon Coverdale wrote the music. For the performance, Simon played acoustic guitar, Dave Sutherland played […]
How far into the development of the new blog platform are we now? I had hoped, by now, that the thriving online community would have slowly trickled back… But they haven’t. This saddens me greatly, and I’m trying really hard […]
It is not often I am so hurt and outraged by someone or something that I feel compelled to write about it, talk about it or even mention it. I would normally just brush it off or go sulk in […]
In the window As part of the Graduate Residency Alice and myself had the opportunity to put together an interim exhibition in Airspace’s window space. This allowing us to pilot some initial ideas and works, while also letting the people […]
Our level 6 lecturer recommended within a talk recently that we know about Turps Banana and following this lead, I looked at the website www.turpsbanana.com and discovered a painting magazine available twice a year that is written for painters, […]
we made our go and see visit to grizedale to see and experience the sculpture and to research what it was like to work outdoors. there were numerous circumstances that influenced the visit to take place in mid September. the weather […]
Another group crit this week – the difference being it was with a new set of peers and a different tutor. Whilst I fully appreciate and welcome these opportunities, sometimes I am left a little frustrated at the end. Participation is […]
“a unique and powerful collection of surreal, controversial and provocative art.”
I have a couple of friends who have visual impairments of one sort or another. I don’t really take much notice of it. I’m not even sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I think, because […]
Founded in 1994, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists programme has helped some of the UK’s best-known visual artists with no-strings-attached financial support at crucial points in their careers. On the eve of the announcement of this year’s awards, Chris Sharratt talks to the foundation’s head of arts and to 2012 recipient Ed Atkins.
Residence with WAAW, Saint Louis, Senegal, supported by Arts Council England I’ve been taking a lot of time recently to dig deeper into the history of witchcraft accusations. By looking at a wider span of time outside the great european […]
Okay!! Enough procrastination and distraction, I miss the process of posting here and therefore resolve to prioritise it and do it more regularly. I am not someone who ‘hits the ground running’. Travelling by steamship would suit me perfectly. Arriving […]
On the last day on my residency at the Merz Barn in Cumbia it was time to reflect on my thoughts over the duration of the week. As I mentioned in a previous post, I had stapled a huge sheet […]
I feel as if I have had a rush of blood to my brain induced by looking at – and talking about – a lot of art in the last seven days. An art students dream really! Monday – drawing […]
