Former Edinburgh Napier graduate, Alicia Bruce, has been named as the recipient of the £5,000 RSA Morton Award 2014 towards researching and developing a new body of photographic work.
***Please note this review is by Wayne Burrows and not Andrew Bracey***
Yesterday the sea was still too rough for us to make a crossing to Swona. Both mornings we had psyched ourselves up – packed the kit, food supplies, dressed in warm layers of clothing and head-to-toe waterproofs – and arrived […]
Conflict, industry and landscape are on the agenda this week as we recommend shows in London, Leeds, Manchester, Brighton and Edinburgh.
After an epic 40 hour journey I have arrived in Thailand. Katie Hawker who runs the artist-led project Surface Arts along with her assistant a local artist called Pitchaya, have been showing me the ropes, introducing me to local artists […]
Artist Rosie Emerson has created the world’s largest cyanotype photograph – measuring over 46 square metres – as part of the Hackney WickED Art Festival.
We arrived at the residency house at the end of the day on Friday very tired after two taxis, two planes and two buses. Baby Cassius managed the best whilst mum and dad were struggling, hungry and wishing we packed […]
Judith Stewart’s completed essay was called ‘Whose Everyday? Politics, Ethics and Art’. For several years we had been making a body of work about the tensions and creative exploits of domestic life. We had used drawing, written observation, film and […]
Definitely settled in as Community Artist: collaborating with local art projects, connecting with the V&A collections and mapping out my own artistic concerns. First off, spray painting at the Henry Dickens Court Community Centre. Local children working with TMO, Steph Perkins and lead artist, Claire […]
We finish up on the ground floor of the Photographers’ Gallery, watching the huge screen above the stair well. It is showing a sequence of hundreds of different images of motherhood which collectively carry the title Motherlode. The gallery website […]
I am a photographic artist, interested between the relationship between photography and archaeology. For this a-n New Collaborative Bursary project I am collaborating with Keir Stickland, an archaeologist working in the Department of Archaeology at Orkney College. Keir’s primary research […]
In thinking about producing reproduction images on postcards (from week 76) and the Andre Malraux research from my previous exhibition The Imaginary Museum, I thought it might be useful to consider some of the processes involved throughout the history of […]
For the second in our seasonal series, we’ve selected some stimulating books to keep you company over those long, hot summer days. So whether you’ll be relaxing on the beach, sipping cocktails by the pool, museum-hopping on a city break, or sheltering from the rain in a cosy tent – pack one of our holiday reads and enjoy that well-earned break!
Artist. Hermit. Differently-abled.
This week’s selection takes in two career spanning survey shows – Giulio Paolini in London and Bruce McClean in Colchester – plus there are ‘earthy’ new works by William Cobbing in Middlesbrough, and a new film installation questioning the concept of freedom by Grace Schwindt in Birmingham.
Memories. Acrylic and mixed media on board. Sue Gough So nice to be using the new improved site. I’ve been frantically busy for the past few months; once I’d recovered from the infection, that took me six weeks, I then […]
Caroline Wendling’s exhibition, A Sense of Place, at Changing Spaces, Cambridge, 23-26 April 2014
