A New Studio I have taken another positive step towards rebuilding my practice. I have a new studio space! I am sharing a studio with Katie Goodwin, with whom I worked with successfully in the past during the MA. We […]
Exposed Materials and Processes in Art Practice: I love it when art-bloggers write in detail about their materials and methods. Very helpful, indeed. Stephen B. MacInnis from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island is very, very good at communicating regarding this aspect […]
Flow is a tidemill, a floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal water wheel and houses a range of musical machinery that responds to the river. It is one of the twelve Artists taking the lead’ commissions to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. ~Flow is the brainchild of the artist group Owl Project and producer Ed Carter: To bring their fantastical idea to life required the skills and expertise of a diverse range of professionals, including Nicky Kirk, a chartered architect; Amble Boat Company; and David Willcox, a waterwheel designer. Here David, Ed and Owl Project talk about their experience.
Thirty-eight artists have been selected from more than 600 hundred applications for the 5th Oriel Davies Open exhibition (Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, until 27 June). “Works presented use diverse materials and visual techniques to push boundaries – such as challenging […]
My mind has not been with dolls or in Berlin this week. I have just returned from a trip to Antwerp. I fell in love with this city some years ago when I had an exhibition there and am always […]
Decision-time: My art-life needs to change. Or should I say evolve? Have been thinking hard these last few months about what I can do and how I can do it. The thing is, I’ve got M.E. and it affects every […]
Going into the start of the week in your professional shoes on means that the mucky work tends to get neglected, and so far, nothing whatsoever has been done on the painting or scupture front. I’d set Monday aside as […]
JUST SOME PAST SNIPPETS: The college work will get done, but you know how it is, you go zapping about on adrenaline then when it’s all done you slump! I love the idea that this time for thinking has led […]
Well, I now have an axis web profile! Check it out! http://www.axisweb.org/artist/zanneandrea I feel like I need to work on my “artist statement” that I’ve posted on there.. I have different statements written, in different styles and word lengths that […]
Relocation Relocation Relocation A big part of rebuilding and refocusing my practice has seen me think about where I want to be based. The questions that I have asked myself have been what is best for me? What is best […]
Relationships. Relationships are such a vital point to my work, I thought it’s best to mention my relationship with two of my favourite artists: Michael Dean, an artist from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who has an exhibition opening at the Henry Moore Institute, […]
Scribbling this blog longhand on a train bound for London, I can use the time to reflect on the week gone by and the day ahead – and hope that no one sits next to me. This trip in itself […]
Gallery annouces exhibiting artists for Oriel Davies Open 2012.
We have now settled on a date for the performance at the gallery, it will be on May 3rd. It quite a small space, so even if only 7 people show up it will feel busy, more and it will […]
Bureau Gallery, Manchester
30 March – 12 May 2012
Moving around the Dan Graham pavillion in the sunshine at Lisson Gallery was a good way to start Friday. It followed an intense week of prep and a presentation to staff and students (with questions) on studio practice and contextualisation. […]
Early in March I was in Margate for the National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers’ (NFASP) AGM and a series of events designed to bring artists and studio providers together to share experience, intelligence and generally bond.
Artists talking Online Editor Andrew Bryant looks to the Projects unedited blogs to consider the enduring question: Why be an artist?
Artists Sally Lemsford and Elizabeth Murton reflect on AIR’s first annual members forum, OpenAIR: Effecting Change. Interview by Jack Hutchinson.
In April 2010 six young people from North Glasgow were given the unique opportunity to explore life in a completely different way and to interpret what they saw using photography within contemporary art.
Last month’s announcement that June would be the final copy of a-n Magazine in print has generated some questions which we’re responding to here for the benefit of all readers.
A good proposal is like a conversation. To begin a really good relationship, you’ve got to find out as much as you can about who you’re talking to and what they’re interested in. This is the basis of making a successful pitch.
Penultimate day in Istanbul: Today has been long but productive. Things achieved: -meeting with the artists of Atilkunst in the tapestry room at Mimar Sinan University. Good to talk about TRADING STATION, discussed ways of trading work, ideas including mailing […]
How was AIR formed? What does the future hold? AIR’s former chair Paul Scott, who has been involved since day one, provides a timely insight.
Artist, horticulturist and a-n Communications and partnerships team member Maggie Tran sowed the seeds of her practice through volunteering and event programming. As working life flourishes she takes us to the tip of her roots to tell the tale.
