
Rural report
Featuring a selection of UK’s most interesting rurally-based organisations and artists’ projects.
Featuring a selection of UK’s most interesting rurally-based organisations and artists’ projects.
Tuesday – My last day in Finland We turned a different way out of the road this time, and Edwina took me to the side of Riihimaki that i had not been to yet; i am amazed how far this […]
I took the train to Turenki as after Friday’s seminar, Riitta had invited me over to her gallery with the possibility of making some Textile pieces for her to show. It was a really enjoyable afternoon, and one that i […]
Ah, show is up, I have a title.. it’s not the most amazing thing I have ever done, but that disappointment is partly due to the fact that I can’t show the animation alongside the sculpture.. otherwise it will do. […]
The birthday trip home to Liverpool begins in about two hours, so I shall see you in September… Hoping this break will give everything a bit of clarity when I get back and see my work again. The next exhibiton […]
St. John’s Centre, Preston
30 July – 26 August 2009
Linzblog: On Friday we were very lucky indeed, and managed to get the keys to go into the tunnels under Linz. As the book I am making is about the surface and what lies underneath, I have been desperate to […]
Getting paid blog: This is in reply to Christina and Andrew in the previous post.. firstly thanks very much for the rant encouragment! There shall be more to come. However, recent frustrations I mentioned here are more to do with […]
Linzblog: I have been reading through a few blogs this morning and specifically those by other people currently on residencies.. It made me laugh how much I recognise my own experiences mirrored in these: struggling with time both going slowly […]
I didn’t mean to post anything else again today, but I was just checking the deadline for something and came across a residency at the Bridge School; a special needs school in Islington. This is a residency with studio, materials […]
Today I was thinking about artists who write. There’s quite a lot of them (us?). Picasso has at least one thick volume of collected writings and stories published… Louise Bourgeois’s creative writing has just started appealing to me. With quite […]
Dorm, ten minutes before breakfast. We went into Uzipis last night, en famille. Uzipis was declared a seperate republic but artists who lived there, in 1997 or so. Here’s their constitution. Needless to say, there are now developers signs around. […]
Our project ‘Red’ is a series of 3, one month residencies in 2 market towns and one city. We have been commissioned by ‘In Certain Places’ to work in the St John’s Centre, Preston, for the first month. This blog […]
Project Space Leeds, Leeds
25 March 27 June
A unique project for artists, creative thinkers and cultural practitioners, Arts Reverie is located in the heart of a traditional pol (neighbourhood) in the historic city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
AA2A has secured a further two years’ funding from Arts Council England through the Grants for the Arts lottery fund.
Nick Slater and Kathrin Böhm relate the project by public works and myvillages.org, commissioned as part of Radar’s ‘Group Process’ programme.
Sandarbh Workshop, Derbyshire
2 – 17 May 2009
Michael Aitken studied Fine Art at the John Moores University in Liverpool graduating with first class honours in 2005. As well as developing his own practice he works concurrently at Tate Liverpool, Cumbria University as a visiting lecturer and as […]
True Riches
www.ica-liveart.org.uk
Emily Druiff and Sophie Hope discuss independent practice in relation self-initiated curator and artist-led projects.
Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin
4 April – 31 May 2009