Well that’s buggered up my plans. The theory is I have a cracked scaphoid bone at the base of my thumb. It hurts like hell. I’m not in plaster or anything, but can’t sew, draw, write with a pen, use […]
Lincoln is developing a strong, artist-led art scene that is responding to the particularities of the area while presenting the work of local and international artists. We report from this historic East Midlands city.
Drawing Room’s Drawing Biennial 2013 presents over 200 A4 works by an international line-up of artists.
It’s only seventeen days since GRAIN ended but it feels like months as there was Easter and a trip to Austria in between then and now. I’ve got a clear head and a good distance from the project and can […]
As the economy continues to falter and budgets are cut, public funding for the arts is increasingly justified in terms of economic and social benefits. But, argues Shaun Glanville, this is futile and wrong-headed – a new approach is needed.
I had a really interesting conversation with my friend yesterday, I was saying how reading is really important for my work, it is what really inspires me and I was saying that sometimes I find what I am reading really […]
wake walk drink draw time record eat cut wrap slice click wash dry dress drive work listen search help listen eat drive check email cut slice cook drink eat talk draw write sit undress brush read sleep. Today is the […]
After a week away, the real countdown has begun. With just under 4 weeks left until the end of this project, I did what usually works best in these circumstances: make a to do list.(!) Really, it the best way […]
My Swedish friends think my enthusiasm over the Kultur & Media job centre and unemployment services is highly amusing. I am going to recommend that they take a trip the job centre on Burdett Road. What they find strange, and […]
An interview with Char Le, speaking to Bette Wood. Hello Char! The show is getting closer, what has your role been in pulling it all together? I became involved in the fund-raising team, and as team leader my role was […]
Mission Gallery, Swansea
2 April – 12 May 2013
So much of my commitment to writing this blog is also given over to responding to and leaving comments on other artist/blogger’s posts. It’s formed an ongoing, reciprocal exchange and it’s the interactions with others that have contributed to the […]
Notes on Spill Folk Academy, Day I+II (2/3) First Day: XI) Insituationalization of Live Art (What does that mean? What if you don’t follow the procedures? The traditional stages to get recognized and supported? Are we talking about the (heavy) […]
Dialogues with Maria Pattison (3) As i have been considering my role in relation the the Book of Debts (going live online and on the streets towards the end of next week) as servant, I was interested to hear Maria […]
Notes On Spill Folk Academy, Day I + II (1/3) First Day: I) Moaning – or Morning? – Session: Get it out of your chest & let’s be done with it! (Did we succeed in doing it? Was the moaning […]
Arts producing agency Forma is celebrating a decade of working with leading artists by reappraising previous projects and announcing a raft of new ones. We speak to founder David Metcalfe and artists Matt Stokes and Graham Dolphin about the past, the future and the role of the producer.
6 December 2011. 3331 Chiyoda, Tokyo. Edited transcript of recorded interview.
As part of Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as Leader research, Masato Nakamura discusses his commitment to transforming the art education system in Japan, and the inauguration of a new model of art centre “founded on the basis of artist leadership”.
Driver or pedestrian? I am currently having driving lessons. On the first lesson I had to learn where to rest my gaze, further forwards along the road. Not directly in front of me, like a pedestrian. Yesterday my instructor was […]
‘Distracted as the cracks grow’ Portsmouth April 6th Wake later at 6:22am not the good news it seems…….. i wake unfortunately with the understanding that a slight excess of cider is to blame for both sleeping in and an urgent […]
Yesterday I headed out to Saltaire for my first meeting with a potential participant. J’s daughter had seen one of my posters and suggested to J that she might be interested. I felt quite nervous but Dave from the History […]
As an exhibition of works on paper opens in Southwark Park to celebrate three decades of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, we talk to two members about the organisation’s thirty year commitment to art, community and learning.
Extracts over the next week from a dialogue with Maria Pattison, theatre practitioner and director, co-director of The Pantry, currently completing an MA in Ethical Leadership at Kings College London. I was curious to ask her about a number of […]
Well I’ve been back down in Somerset for the Easter weekend which was a good way of taking a small amount of time off. I managed to get to Stourhead and look at the landscaped garden. This was a place […]
Can I schedule my way into freedom? So here it is, an artists talking blog and, I suspect, a sobering experiment on why it is that big chunks of time supposedly available to make work become little titbits of time […]
