For my second idea of how my photography work has been exhibited i have created folded cards which inside says; “Photography by Helen Lloyd” and my email and website. I will send them to friends and family on certain occasions.
Title: Slioch Hilltop Cairn/Circling Buzzards.1980. Medium:2 photographs, black and white, on paper and transfer lettering. Image: 1181 x 870 mm. Title: Eroded Rock Outline Beinn Mheadhoin. From Ten Toes towards the Rainbow: Date: 1988, 1991.Medium: Screenprint on paper. Dimensions: Image: […]
im working on a project based around self image and the fashion industr at the moment but im also looking at old saying such as “you would look good in a black bin bag” and “you look like a sack […]
Scratching the Surface. My degree studies included experimentation with drawing, painting, sculpture, printing and photography and I began to produce work from life studies and abstraction. The use of digital media and image manipulation, became instrumental in the transformation of […]
Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.
Framing art practice within an anthropological perspective is related to ideas about the ways in which cultural context contributes to art practice and creativity. Such ideas show how patterns of thought can re-emerge in societies, through the gradual “restructuring of […]
For my first idea of how my photography work has been exhibited has been by transferring an image onto canvas bags.
This blog will show different formats of how I have exhibited my work. It will give you an insight into the different methods I am using to display work for a range of audiences. This blog will be updated daily […]
This week our what’s on highlights include search-engine compiled artistic biographies, an interactive art game and an immersive ‘cocoon’ – all drawn from postings by a-n’s members on the site’s Events section.
Written in response to the Alias annual gathering event, Moving Forward and Staying the Same: Artist Led Evolutions, AirSpace Gallery co-director Glen Stoker considers the continued importance of artist-led activity to the UK’s visual arts ecology.
I have a couple of ideas for art pieces that will use words. When I first conceived the idea of working with text, I looked at other text artists, Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, some of these images definitely struck […]
A series of images around London, the capital city of the UK. Taken on a photography tour around the city with “The Hairy Goat’s Tour”
On this day I was feeling increasingly frustrated with the landscape around me, I was missing the landscape in Wales. The freedom, the ability to climb high and look across the world below me. This was important for me, to […]
Turner Contemporary’s Self exhibition looks at artists’ self-portraits from the 17th century to the present day, exploring the changing way artists have seen themselves – and society has seen artists. Dany Louise reports from Margate.
Chosen from over 400 applicants, Photoworks and Jerwood Visual Arts have announced the three artists who will each receive £5000 to develop new work.
Songbook, the much anticipated photobook from leading photographer Alec Soth, chronicles the solitary experiences of Americans through a blend of lyrical portraits and empty landscapes. Tim Clark considers the images of those longing for connection in an era of virtual networks.
After the pain of writing my dissertation my creativity have been at an all time low. I have had little time to paint and when I do its in dark blues.I think this comes with the change of my mood. […]
Last year I was contacted by Calvendo to produce a calendar of my photography. It gave me the opportunity to promote my work in a different way. It was also a lot of fun. Well worth giving a go.
After hearing artist Dr Nicky Bird speak about her work Question for Seller at the Leeds Artist Book Fair in March, I thought it would be useful to meet her for a tutorial. Dr Bird was the first person to graduate […]
The 56th Venice Biennale, British Art Show 8, Manchester International Festival – we take a month-by-month look at the year ahead to provide a selection of key events for your diary.
I have been working on my collages on oak board over the last month or so. It has been intermittent, with lots of gaps in between. Some of them worked, some of them didn’t. I am not very good at […]
Nine months ago I made the initial version of To accrete n.05 movie stills which transfers a collaged physical artwork into a series of still shots. It fractures viewing into small slices that gradually reveal a whole, an exercise both […]
