The weeks and months after graduation can be a daunting time. After three years or more of support and guidance suddenly it’s time to go it alone. There are many different ways to pursue your career as a professional artist and no two people will follow the same path. Here, four recent art graduates describe their journeys: from joining a peer-led network to working as an artist’s assistant, they each have a different story to tell.
Monday: I went into BBC Radio Norfolk to be interviewed live during their afternoon show. This was brilliant timing as it was the very day before Part Two of my hill-building performance at Cromer Museum. It was good for the […]
John Plowman unpicks a new book on collaborative practice by Nuno Sacramento and Claudia Zeiske.
I have been struggling with the lack of unity in my work recently – the fact that this blog and the things I believe in for artists, do not fit neatly with the work I make. In titling the show […]
One of things I really appreciate about spending time here (in London) and there (in Stockholm) is how it insulates me from distraction. It is my nature to get involved in things and sometimes this is detrimental to my own […]
I wrote this in draft form a few days ago and forgot about it. Life takes over… or rather – work… proposals, fixing and painting broken fencing while the sun is out… you know how it is. Rather aptly though, […]
Panic is a great motivator. I’ve got three solo shows and a group show coming up during June and July. Will I have enough work? As it is, no. I have been frantically creating and recreating. I took the drastic […]
Plymouth College of Art Press, Plymouth
11 March 2001 – 31 December 2009
Is surface texture, pattern and ‘the natural’ an escape or a trap? Rosalind Davis talks to Andrew Bryant about this and other questions in her work written about in her Artists talking blog.
It was our first birthday in April at Core which aptly was exhibiting Extra-Ordinary which I curated with Jane Boyer: Tom Butler, Alyson Helyer and Marion Michell are utterly wonderful. ‘ Never was a title more apt – you really […]
I’ve been thinking more about how the costs of video production affect the way its valued, and realized my last post had a pretty obvious omission from the discussion of low budget styles of filmmaking: the No Wave cinema of […]
My intention for starting this blog is to keep a record of my practice in the run-up to my final exhibition. I hope to reflect on my working practices and methodology with particular emphasis on creative problem solving. Comments are […]
The Women’s Library, London
26 October 2010 – 20 April 2011
At the start of the month I went to visit a very old, very dear friend in another city. He’s a little younger than I, just about to graduate from art school and step out into the world for the […]
A-n’s Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they choose to collaborate with. In this article, artists Yoke and Zoom and Susan Miles of ACORP give their accounts of a cultural regeneration project with a difference – converting a railway station’s disused toilets into an art gallery.
Really great to see AIR taking part in the protests on Saturday – really loved the long banner! I was disappointed to miss the march, I had though I would be abroad, but even being in the UK, I am […]
This will be my final post from this blog. In the last few months I have moved out of Salford, back across the river into Manchester, to Rogue Artists’ Studios, where I was lucky to be offered a studio in […]
i have taken some time from all the preparations for the Degree Shows to do some work and to rest. It has taken so much of my time and has exhausted not only me but also my fellow students. WE […]
19 March 2011 Things are also moving forward with my Ambush project. In order to establish and see if the site is workable we organized to undertake a test dig. Trevor Thickett, the engineer met in Bristol with the manager, […]
I have progressed a great deal recently; just by being in a space, I have been able to put a good number of my sketched ideas into practice. The last couple of weeks have allowed me to see that unless […]
Sonya Dyer reports from ‘Hospitality’ the third event in the Artists and curators talking series, held at East Street Arts: Union 105 in Leeds, and asks ‘What is the relationship between hospitality and intimacy?’.
Great site addressing important questions: // Can socially engaged art do more harm than good? // Are there ethical responsibilities for social art? // Does socially engaged art have to do civic or public good? // Can there be transdisciplinary […]
The opening of my exhibition New Industrial Space at Norwich Arts Centre (open until 26th March) allowed me to explore the showing of film as part of an artist talk. I showed Chasing the Blues (1947) from the British Documentary […]
GREAT NEWS! We have been awarded a NAN Futurific! bursary. This is fantastic news! It means we can put aside time to research the best way to set up our new organisation and to study other organisations who seem to […]
I continue to read the interview with Boltanski and I’ve made a list of artists to research. I’ve also contacted Paul Lipscombe about the photography project. Right now I am trying to write about the live art project and seeing […]
