After a frantic few weeks on not being able to get to the Mill (going away and pesky half term!) I’ve been thrown right back into it by having to do a talk for Leeds Met first year BA art […]
Hurrah, a-n is out and my letter is published!There is another interesting letter there and a scary one from the RA…. I hope I have given the argument about open submissions a slightly different insight. I guess I shall find […]
Going through my Powerpoint presentation for my Degree Project was good to have done and i love talking about Art, though writing about Art is difficult. Its difficult having an illness and studying. Its something that i have to live […]
Monday came and went, in the middle of it I had the pleasurable experience of “having a good day”… Yes, today started off very well indeed, having realised the gallery who represented me at the London Affordable Art Fair, which […]
Collected Texts Phil asked me to send him some text from my experience of working in China and I thought it would be a good idea to use my blog and pick out bite size phrases. In my work I […]
Engage/Enquire’s ‘The Art of Influencing Change, Economies and Ecologies’ at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne and NALGAO’s annual conference in Brighton.
So the first half-term is over for college. Got a reading week and the time has flown. But it’s a good job that we have a break as I am tired. This will be a good time to touch base, […]
The trouble with some people is… Do you know..It never ceases to amaze me when people confront you with the question, “Why are you doing a degree at your age?”. I’m not offended by the question, it’s more of a […]
The embellishment of international study resounds with the affect of writing and the scripture of applied materials to define a multidisciplinary art practice: but how do you pull yourself away from the developed peer structure of art school?
Last week was a lot of art and I saw some exciting stuff. There were some interesting video pieces by Klara Liden at the Serpentine that got me thinking about performance and film again and some drawings still sticking in […]
The first semester is beginning to feel a little more settled. We have two more students who joined us last week so our group is now 7, a good size to have a diversity of specialism and opinions! Last week […]
Orebro konsthall, Bio Roxy, Orebro lans museum, Konstframjandet Bergslagen, Orebro
1 – 3 October 2010
Blimey look at this…. its been a long time since I wrote anything on here. This I conclude…… is a good thing. There is something about sitting around writing about ‘mental health’ that breeds such a sense of intensity in […]
The past few weeks have been full on as I settle back into the degree course and ground myself – to find my way around a new university, meet new lecturers and technicians and start thinking about what ‘on earth’ […]
The next few sessions I skipped into the MillSpace and spent quite a few hours constructing spokes for the wheels of a crane on Photoshop and then setting them up frame by frame for animation. There will be a much […]
Liverpool John Moores’ University, Liverpool
7 October 2010
So the first response has been done and sent. Created digitally, and sent by e-mail, so it only exists in a virtual sense, but that won’t be obvious to my sister. The apps I used to create the piece did […]
This month I’ve spent some happy hours reading the Artists Talking blogs. I’ve been picking a “Choice Blog” for the month, and landed gladly upon David Minton (see this page here). Separately, I’ve been struck by the role of the […]
Edited by David Mollin and John Reardon. Ridinghouse Publishers., London
1 January 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve been here. I’ve visited the ‘interval’ blog now that I’ve set the task of visiting it after the interval of 3 days. So here I’ll keep up with the overview of the whole course. […]
continued Extracts from Ecstatic Notebook by Duncan Ward: ‘Ecstasy is not something that can be accessed on demand, but there may be little tricks and methods we can use in order to make ourselves more amenable to ecstasy when it […]
In the twenty-five years since its foundation, Castlefield Gallery has evolved, adapted and outlived many of the buzz words first used about it, but one thing has remained absolutely constant – its aim to support artists.
A-n and Axis are launching a new programme of dynamic, practice-led discussions on hospitality, space and contemporary art making, researched and directed by artist, curator and writer Sonya Dyer. Here, she sets out her thinking for the programme.
First day back today and in the new studios. It is looking good with a better seminar room, drawing space, and project space. We have lost the common room and our technician is no longer based in the Fine Art […]
I think I could have thought a little bit more in advance of this project. It’s all very well feeling adventurous and cavalier, and nurturing the risk-taking mentality that too many years of legal practice drove out of me, but […]
