Bad news for art and culture in Bradford over the past few days. Last week it was announced that Bradford One gallery is moving from its central location in Centenary Square to Cartwright Hall to make way for the new […]
Bosch in Bath. Last month was spent organising, arranging and curating ‘Old Victoria Buildings Revival’ for Fringe Arts Bath 2013, a show that in the end featured work from: Sam Aldridge, Jan Bennett, Phil Babot, Andrew Cooper, Geraint Evans, Kim […]
Week Three News Extracts from Buddy Leader, Anne Barrell’s weekly mail-out to the group. It’s been great hearing what the buddies have been up to and some lovely ideas are coming forward. Sarah Mulholland and Catherine Walsh have been sketching […]
BLUE MONKEY LOVES DAVID KEFFORD! Blue Monkey artist Anne Barrell writes, “I very much enjoyed the David Kefford talk at Towner on Wednesday. Part of what he talked about was the importance of artists support networks and about how through […]
With my exhibition, workshop and lecture complete, I’m just back from a much needed few days break lazing by the beach in Hainan off the south coast of China. I fly out of Chongqing tomorrow evening arriving in Gatwick at […]
I have also looked at Ryan Gander this piece he did really inspired me to think of my own practice and maybe push my own boundaries more. http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/ryan-gander been thinking about new work as well spring boarding of this degree […]
I can’t believe its been almost 2 months since my last post. The last 7 weeks have been an intense whirl of events, meetings and new opportunities. There has only been time for doing, action. The dust however has now […]
continued from post #33 I like the part of my work that responds spontaneously to other artists, new ideas and calls for exhibiting, just as I have in the past couple of days. I very much want to improve my […]
And all the friends lay down the flowers, sit on the banks and drink for hours, talk of the way they saw him last, local boy in the photograph… On Sunday 14th April 2013 I headed down to Brighton to […]
After an incredibly stressful weekend spent at work in the cafe I got back in the studio and managed an incredibly productive thirteen hour stint in University. The students that were selected for Gallery North were given access at 9am […]
The end of project ‘Art Practice 2’ is a good time to reassess what I’m doing and my methods of getting there. My Transition and Listen sets of work have had their own momentum and now I feel the need […]
I am now in my degree show space, I have finished pulling out the screws and painting the board and I have been trying out different ways of interacting with the space. I am still not sure yet how the […]
Working internationally is key to the development of many artists’ practice, but without gallery representation the hurdles are considerable. With the 55th Venice Biennale soon to open, we speak to three artists – including one showing in Venice – about the challenges of working abroad without a gallery, and also get the views of an independent curator.
Today I surprisingly have time to catch up with myself. Past weeks have been a blur of work and voluntary commitments. These appear to be unavoidable when you live in a village with the family at the local school. Raffle’s, […]
As the degree show season gets into full swing, Professor Tom Davies from Staffordshire University responds to a-n’s recent report on approaches to professional practice in visual and applied arts courses.
WEEK ONE BUDDY GROUP NEWS – a message from Anne Barrell, Buddy Group leader to the Buddies. The first meeting was very productive. As we have seen, Buddies have a diverse range of artistic practice and requirements from the programme. […]
We have spent the last week setting up our show at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, in Birkenhead. Art works that looked larged in the studio seemed so much smaller in the gallery space. By thursday almost everthing was […]
For a change, instead of ranting about teaching in schools (I’ll leave that for next week, I’m teaching in Romford AND Clapham, ALL 5 days of the week….) I thought I would write about Artquest’s brilliantly organised conference “For the […]
I am watching documentaries about some sculptors and I thought it would be good to document it here, I have realised that due to the large volume of publications that I read and the various artist interviews and documentaries that […]
Public Facing events We have held a range of events that engaged TRADING STATION with the public including exhibition, discussion events, intervention and socially engaged practice. These took place in public spaces and arts organisations in Liverpool and Istanbul throughout […]
MY BRAIN HURTS !! Have been thinking deep thoughts at home today after talking to Marcella yesterday. We both realised that there were very few of us just painting. A bit worrying… I gave it some serious thought and wrote […]
I have been working on my piece for the Snip exhibition this evening, it feels good to be getting it ready for the show – which opens the same weekend as my degree show – I see it as the […]
Despite the negative effects of gloss paint fumes (nasty stuff!) we’re still here to make sure you’re all good and well and getting your daily dose. Here’s your next 5-a-day: Hannah Milburn 1 Of My work sets out to question […]
Floors are painted, works installed tomorrow. It’s crunchtime! … All the more reason why you need your 5-A-Day! Get your fill of today’s goodies, literally something for everyone… Plus, we’re all really friendly (as if you needed more reason to […]
It’s been nearly a full month since my last month, due in part to essay deadlines and being in the throws of writing my clinical placement report. Nonetheless the blog has never been far from my mind. Retrospectively it’s been […]
