Returning to blogging on a-n is like picking up with an old friend again and I’m particularly happy to be returning as the recipient of an a-n Re:View bursary. Funding to facilitate critical dialogue around my work, firstly, is absolutely, […]
After joining Degrees unedited in March 2013 Jasper Weinstein Sheffield has showed us there’s much more to his conceptual approach than a blade of grass. He tells us more as prelude to degree shows at Northumbria University.
Ali Reed joined the Degrees unedited blogs in November 2012, since then we have seen her work develop site-specifically and professionally. Here she tells us of her plans for degree shows at Staffordshire University.
After joining Degrees unedited in February 2013 Catriona Meighan has explored book works and large scale installations during her time at Edinburgh College of Art. In time for degree shows she tells us of her aspirations for negative space.
A couple of discussions this week have made me re-assess my work and have suggested ways of moving it forward. I need to question the materials which I am using and I need to think about the validity of casting […]
Final week in Beijing Artist talk at Institute for Provocation Visit to the former artists village of Fuyuanmen Research into pre-print history of ‘Bei Ta’ I was invited to give a talk at the Institute for Provocation, a Beijing-based organisation […]
Manchester-based artist Maurice Carlin recently co-organised a public discussion on artist-led spaces during his current residency at HomeShop, Beijing. He reports on how it went and the issues and solutions that were raised.
TRADING STATION issue 4 is published! It’s been the longest gap between publications in the series (Issues 1-3 were published in May, September and November 2012), but we decided in January that we would purposefully leave a longer gap between […]
6 December 2011. 3331 Chiyoda, Tokyo. Edited transcript of recorded interview.
As part of Joshua Sofaer’s Artist as Leader research, Masato Nakamura discusses his commitment to transforming the art education system in Japan, and the inauguration of a new model of art centre “founded on the basis of artist leadership”.
Last night on the radio I heard Andrew Motion speak of his time as Poet Laureate. He was asked about the challenges as well as the advantages and he spoke of the trouble the creative soul has in respect of […]
Opening in a few days time. Working to build the business side of things takes much time and is fairly mundane, but talking to lots of new artists who want to work with us on workshops and residencies is very […]
Lauren Healey talks to Northern Art Prize 2011 winner Leo Fitzmaurice about objectness, appropriation and his time-intensive research process.
Since beginning this project in February until now, I have applied for a few residencies and exhibitions, and in doing so, I have taken the time to reflect on the development of my practice. I am returning to my practice […]
Tiny Prawn Well, I did contact the festival organisers and they have confirmed that I will get the money in three stages, when I have signed the contract (don’t know when that will be) then some more “over the summer” […]
2, 2013. CARBON EXHIBITION. Lately I have been increasingly busy. Alongside holding a 20 hour a week job in the last term of my final year at university, I am working to develop my own practice, attending several lectures, applying […]
I’ve written a few Art Work Life Balance exercises now and this weekend I have been putting together a few proposals to different places for residencies or to perform or exhibit them. Initially I started with 7, I haven’t performed […]
The first of two symposia as part of Collective gallery’s New Work Scotland programme for recent graduates, takes place at Tramway, Glasgow, this weekend.
Many events have happened recently, mainly positive. I visited Downstairs Gallery at Great Brampton House in Herefordshire to see Matt Brown’s exhibition, Force Quit. The work was beautifully produced and quite complex, visually. There were a number of pieces there […]
Over the course of four years, artists, curators and writers were invited to select blogs from the a-n site. Their choices highlights the range and depth of practice discussed on a-n’s artists’ blogging platform at that time.
The Lawton Culturale for Creative Inquiry is a laboratory for atypical, anti-disciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology and culture The Culturale has received a £30000 Pointeso variant Art Works grant to support ‘elusively exclusive’ artist […]
My latest conversation with Mark Dunhill has gone live at http://creativedialog.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/cre… Go there to hear my 30 min chat with Mark about his show Stone Appreciation #2. Mark is one half of the collaborative partnership Dunhill and O’Brien. Mark has […]
With less than 14 weeks left on the calendar until final submissions for degree show, I´ll use this space to chart my progress. Having spent the first semester writing a dissertation and playing about with some installation, it is time […]
