A quick interim blog post to bring you up to date as my final session funded by the re:view bursary is due to take place at the beginning of March. Just before Christmas I had a meeting with my main […]
AIR Council welcomes three new artist members to its ranks as the a-n/AIR Paying Artists Campaign gathers momentum.
The Possibilities of Social Realism? I have been giving some thought as to the possibilities of perhaps utilising iconic compositions to explore issues of status and equality for this project. I have looked at the work of other artists who […]
Supermarket Art Fair 4/5 Going and visiting the other booths with my newspaper and rubbish talk seemed a better approach as the exhibitors were often tied to staying at their booth and taking shifts with a few other people to […]
From its base in rural Cambridgeshire, Wysing Arts Centre has been supporting artists to make new work for the past 25 years. We hear from artistic director Donna Lynas, and artists Emma Smith and Seb Patane, about the future aims of the organisation and how the its well-regarded residency programme fosters creative relationships.
The recurrent theme then: Parents and children, the wider family, protection, guidance, strength in the group. Living a life affected by what has gone before: affecting what comes after. Always present, my mother: loving, clever, funny, singing, creatively cooking and […]
Some Photoshop Practice I started with this picture I thought it would be an easy image to practice editing out the background of as it has a mostly white background with a mostly black image that I was to keep […]
i spoke last year with an artist who at the time claimed he never fully finished any of his works. i’ve wondered if this was a good thing or a bad thing. while we chatted my gut feeling was that […]
I was starting to feel a bit guilty about not having posted since the birthday party. The last two and a half weeks have been (over) full and (over) exhausting. There is still a lot to do and February will […]
Peckham Platform launches its new vision as an independent charity with the opening of Ruth Beale’s participatory installation, Bookbed. We talk to the artist and the organisation’s executive director Emily Druiff about libraries, socially-engaged practice and being a creative educational platform.
MENTORING AND ME When I applied for a Re:view bursary nearly a year ago, I had no idea how valuable it would be, enabling me to begin an ongoing relationship which would not otherwise have happened. In theory the end […]
The subject of attending University for the purposes of developing your practice is not without documented debate, and is a debate that highlights the contrasts of learning through academia against learning through intuition and life experiences. One school of thought […]
A very welcome discussion with my MA friend about my work. He made me consider not so much what but how I work and that quality is important. Up until now I have used found or cheap canvases and have […]
a week to the first application deadline. how am i fixed? i feel good about where i am with the application. i’ve done some research, made conversations and taken time to write my concept. i have time to record myself […]
We perceive text in our everyday mostly through instructions or alerts that make us function in systems or structures, knowingly or unconsciously. Since I started investigating language I made a range of site-specific text-based works. By applying lettering to office, […]
I don’t really know how much I should write here anymore… I have been warned that this could get me into trouble… legally handcuffed. A sense of fear prevails at work… an apathy… the stench of defeat… people broken and […]
Spring Cleaning Its that time of year when I feel the insatiable need to clean and tidy all around me. Last week I decided to give my studio at Rogue a complete overhaul. This meant making room for a plan-chest […]
Time to shake up my art-practice a little. I am crocheting a set of three baby-blankets that carry injunctions and directly tie in with my inherited memory-project, but also want to explore other angles and approaches that don’t have as […]
Rubbish Conversation with Lars Tharp at the Hepworth, Wakefield, 19/01/14 Lars Tharp: You’ve brought in an installation. This is what I’d call an installation. Alice Bradshaw: This is the Cuba Collection and this one is from Essen in Germany. LT: […]
<CP> Eddie surprised me this week, which is nothing new, except that this was quite a nice surprise for once. He’d secretly booked a day in the darkroom on his own to print some of our negatives, after which I […]
A happy and prosperous New Year to you all. Now that the formalities are out of the way I would like to swiftly introduce you to fourteen things I wish to do in order to develop my career in 2014: […]
Back with more to say it seems, already feeling that I’m reaping the benefits of a return to blogging. When a busy family life and illness conspires to keep you out of the studio, it feels good to maintain some […]
Back to earth today – no more Tate and Paul Klee. The walls of the gallery needed a bit of making good so the gallery curator and I spent the afternoon sanding and touching up the walls of the gallery […]
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
Immigration (War is over…NOT) So this’s Christmas and what have you done? Another year over, a new one just begun. A very happy Xmas & a Happy New Year – it was for me – let’s hope it’s a good […]
