This afternoon I’m sat with knee recovering in the recommended elevated position, with the sun streaming though the french windows. I have a sense of calm about me, a love of the free world we are fortunate to live in, […]
After finishing my book yesterday, I was left with lots of different ideas for how to start testing and playing. I wanted to carry on with the mini-projects I had begun to set myself (I like good project), they were […]
24th October I wanted to write this on the day it happened, hopefully to capture how I feel… This morning, a big fat brown envelope landed on the mat. I limped, bleary, in need of tea and paracetamol, to the […]
My consideration of gift theory within contemporary art practice is led primarily by an interest in anthropology as a theoretical framework: “Theoretical frameworks provide a particular perspective, or lens, through which to examine a topic. Theoretical frameworks usually come from […]
This week ended with my first meeting at Portway Junior School, with the head teacher, Tim Deery and the head of arts, Millie Southway, so I spent the week preparing for this by creating some hand outs to take with […]
“In the world of gift… you not only can have your cake and eat it too, you can’t have your cake unless you eat it”. After reading about artists Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska using gift theory to contextualise their […]
This weeks tutorial was particularly helpful – given that I had spent some time before it thinking how I didn’t feel I had too much to say for myself. It is now week 5 in the calendar, so a third […]
At the thresholds of haunted places – the art of Flis Holland and Victoria Lucas Written By Elaine Speight Within contemporary culture, there is a growing obsession with sites of abandonment and decay. Previously inhabited and everyday places, emptied […]
Session one: ‘Making Sculpture – View from the Studio’ A conversation between studio assistants and collaborators chaired by Jenny Dunseath, feat. Olivia Bax, Neil Ayling, Hamish Black and John Wallbank. (I didn’t take notes until Session 2. However, I am […]
I go to China on 31st October. That is in about 3 weeks, which is not long at all. I feel like I have lots to do before I go but maybe I am just panicking a bit? I think […]
Good things are happening in Cardiff’s visual arts scene, with an energy and momentum that can be seen in the current Cardiff Contemporary festival. But, argues former Artes Mundi director Ben Borthwick, there is much that needs to be done if the biennial event – and Wales’ contemporary art scene generally – is to really fulfil its potential.
Over the Summer Barcelona in a Bag https://www.facebook.com/BarcelonaInABag?ref=hl went into partnership with artist and film maker Jonathan Moss http://www.jonathan-moss.com to make a film called Without You I Would Not Exist. The film centred on the story of my father’s rescue […]
Confidence is a tricky thing to measure – it comes and goes sometimes without warning. It’s helpful, often necessary, for some activities. I enjoyed Monday’s group crit session – a welcoming and mutually respectful environment – what a crit should […]
Thankfully for us, Morris was a prolific public speaker, writer, and a prolific letter writer to boot. So we know a lot about his business as well as his world views and political ideas. His correspondence with Thomas Wardle during […]
Thank you to Jenni Dutton for suggesting a highly relevant article as a source of information for the Museum. In her piece, psychotherapist Philipa Perry talks about ‘transitional objects’ in the context of managing transitions and our ability to navigate […]
Taking the measure of last week I declare it a good one, starting with a cautiously hopeful hospital-appointment and ending with an encounter with an artist I hadn’t met before, not in person that is. This is what I tweeted […]
What are artists’ associate programmes and what do they offer within the broad landscape of artists’ professional development? What should artists consider before applying? Based on extensive research into sixty arts organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, this guide by Dany Louise offers artists help in thinking through the various options available to them.
Considering the nature of capital in the production of objects is a theme that is inherent within artist practice, whether directly or indirectly. This concept relates to everything from the time and materials available to produce work (dictated by sources […]
Thesis writing continues… The chapter and chapter sections are in place and have notes and references that are becoming sentences (or half sentences) that are becoming paragraphs, and are being moved around, expanded and deleted. I’ve not updated much about […]
I panicked and packed 4 pairs of shoes. This isn’t a fashion statement, more an attempt to cover all bases as I plan to stay in Hestercombe for my longest stint. It is Somerset Arts’ weeks, which means I am […]
Post 9 Gemma Lloyd – 27/June/14 – 2 hour I was aware of PEER’s exhibition programme, initially through their on-line presence and have become increasingly interested in what they do since a few close contacts of mine have worked with […]
Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not
The museum is honoured to have Marion Michell as a contributor with this startlingly beautiful and affecting post illustrating the rich layers of meaning contained within the object. Filial love, politics and an early memory of the genesis of an […]
The artist Yinka Shonibare MBE has issued a detailed and personal statement expressing his support for a-n and AIR’s Paying Artists campaign.
