Just a quick evaluation before I leave to the studio. It is being hard to keep up with energy levels and to mantain the rythm of making work, researching, keep things up… My space is very cluttered at the moment […]
Well, I’m already feeling the benefits of having spent the day organising myself and de-cluttering my space. I still need to do more tomorrow but it is looking good again and the most important thing, I feel like to approaching […]
Where is the value? I was invited by Susan Jones to attend the debate Dangerous Ground: Reframing Cultural Value at Castlefield Gallery. This was a genuine surprise as I assumed I was asked based on being involved with PAPER gallery, […]
On Wednesday I finished looking at two ‘papers’ for the Artistic Research course. The first made very depressing reading and lead me to question the validity of an ideology that appears to be so desperate for institutional approval that it […]
The crit at which I presented my work two weeks ago has continued to play on my mind. Perhaps the anxiety stirred up for me that night hasn’t ever really gone away – all the feelings associated with making a […]
While Michael Gove’s recent scrapping of the English Baccalaureate Certificate is welcome, Q-art Director Sarah Rowles suggests that there’s much more work to be done when it comes to the wider issue of art education.
Over the course of four years, artists, curators and writers were invited to select blogs from the a-n site. Their choices highlights the range and depth of practice discussed on a-n’s artists’ blogging platform at that time.
I Moustache You a Question About These Contemporary Paintings Attached to this post are two images of sketches to new paintings that have yet to be produced physically. The first image contains sketches of the proposed ‘moustache paintings’ (see post […]
I’m still waiting to hear about the Open Space funding I applied for. I had hoped it would all be sorted mid January, but it hasn’t materialised, and I’ve heard no more about it. I was starting to get past […]
Another week has passed incredibly quickly. I have not really had time to think about everything (anything?) that happened, this and a conversation with a friend has made me realised that I am someone who needs time – something which […]
Hooray! it’s friday! As I’m finding with most things in my life – this is a double edged sword. GOOD I can lure my horrible children off the computer with the promise of TV (mean mummy that I am, I […]
With its new home in the old Tetley brewery and a recent six figure grant from ACE, these are exciting times for Project Space Leeds. We pay a site visit and speak to co-directors Pippa Hale and Kerry Harker about their plans for a new contemporary arts hub.
Busy January with dissertation to hand in, interim assessment, arrival of Japanese student and exhibition at University of Salford in Manchester a few days ago. Being shortlisted for the Birth Rites Collection Bi-annual competition was a real joy and the […]
I’m sad to say it’s all over. I’ve had a definite ‘back to reality’ feeling this morning as I’ve waded through emails and tried to catch up with the things I’ve had to sideline to focus on the residency. The […]
Summit Gallery is a new artist-led gallery and project space overlooking the Olympic Park in Hackney Wick. We talk to Director Natalie Sanders and the project’s first artist-in-residence Riccardo Iacono.
Week 19: 21st – 27th JanuaryIn many ways practice-led PhDs can be quite different to their theoretical counterparts; the structure of which can generally be separated into 3 sections. Assuming the PhD is full time, each section will coincide with […]
A traineeship at Matt’s Gallery in East London is offering recent graduates an opportunity to gain valuable experience working as part of a gallery team.
A busy week, reciprocity wise. Been reading Grant H Kester’s “Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art” (downloadable pdf: www.grantkester.net/…/Conversation+Pieces_+The+Role+of+Dialogue+in+Socially-Engaged+Art.pdf) in which he talks of the artist’s role in participatory art of ‘creative orchestration’ – which seems […]
Argh, I’m half way through the residency. Where is the time going? I had a moment of panic this morning when I realised that after today I only have three working days left at the Centre for Drawing. Three days […]
At times today it felt like the world was conspiring against me. Icy conditions and serial road works made the journey to Wimbledon drag on for what felt like forever. I was itching to get on with some work but […]
Dame Liz Forgan’s farewell speech has been widely reported on for its attack on Michael Gove and the EBacc. Here, arts strategist and Thinking Practice founder Mark Robinson welcomes her forthright approach while finding plenty to take issue with.
I have just received the exciting news that I have a place on a short course that I recently applied for. Sixteen years after finishing at the Slade I will be back at art school! The course – An Introduction […]
I have so much to write this week; so many different themes I want to write on that there is a distinct possibility that this could all end up muddled and confused… I’m back at school and the analytical assassin […]
28 December 2011. Soho, London. Recording Time: 50 minutes.
As part of Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as Leader research, artist Richard Layzell and businessman Richard Hicks discuss Layzell’s 7 year tenure as ‘Visionaire’ at AIT software where he created bespoke events that addressed the problems and needs of the developing company.
