
Kent art festivals: Whitstable and Folkestone announce dates
Two major contemporary art events on the Kent coast have announced dates for their 2014 editions.
Two major contemporary art events on the Kent coast have announced dates for their 2014 editions.
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/837387/joa… In your current exhibition at Haunch of Venison, you are showing “Full Steam Ahead (Red#1)” (all works 2012), a kinetic, flower-shaped sculpture composed of working steam irons. Could you tell me about this more mechanical strand of your practice? […]
Today I have been reading about Tracey Emin – I read a chapter from the book Tracey Emin, 20 Years by Patrick Elliott and Julian Shnabel. I picked out some phrases and paragraphs that i found interesting and this inspired […]
West Bromwich arts centre to cease current activities on 30 November.
The UK-wide Art Everywhere project, which sees art on billboards and posters across the country, has been launched at an event in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
Willemijn Zandt explores the quest to achieve equality between the sexes by looking at the visual art market.
Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.
Below is an extract of a 15-minute video I made a few months ago. What you see here is indicative of what goes on for the full quarter-hour: just me displaying details of the house with an outstretched hand and […]
The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London
14 – 23 June 2013
The recent Craft and Social Change conference looked at how craft can affect a ‘soft revolution’ by turning away from top-down structures towards a more DIY culture. But, as Sharon Mangion reports, the ‘slow’ logic of the Craftivism movement is combining once solitary practices with new media technologies to reconnect communities and mobilise global audiences.
This year has been a massive journey for my work. I began this year in the plan of exploring collections through the display and interpreting a collection and even what is a collection? I found the project really enjoyable at […]
The recent development in the presentation of Her 2 is very eminesque. This is completely unintentional it just offers more continuity to the viewer. Emin’s bed is a very personal account of her. Not many people get to see your […]
My plan for my degree show has always been to explore collecting. When I first began this year I was intending to focus on the display of collections and the difference between a collection a hoard, an obsession and a […]
I first encountered Tracey Emin’s piece Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963 – 1995 at the beginning of this project before I started my dissertation. I thought I would add it here in a post, as it seems relevant […]
I have been collecting my used make up wipes for months as it is a simple yet effective way I feel of portraying myself without actually creating a self portrait the traditional way that is thought. It is a daily […]
Mark Wallinger has unveiled a series of 270 works that will hang in each station of the London Underground.
An ambitious new exhibition at Stills, Edinburgh, and CCA, Glasgow explores the state of Europe’s economy today and the profound changes that have impacted on us all since the banking crisis of 2008. We talk to curators Angela Dimitrakaki and Kirsten Lloyd about this landmark show.
Frieze Art Fair 2012, London
11 – 14 October 2012
Project Re-think Since looking at the José Camarón piece, ‘An oriental (Turkish/Algerian) woman’ it has got me re-looking at some artist images I had taken off the Internet. The images are of famous female contemporary artists either framed in a […]
The six artists shortlisted for this year’s £30,000 Threadneedle Prize, chosen from the 153 works featured in the exhibition, have been announced.
Being my first blog (ever), I presume one gives an insight of themselves. As I state in my profile, I’ve always been creative, but never really created anything. My creativity blossomed in a place where the main things that grew […]
Rollo Contemporary Art, London
20 January – 2 March 2012
Matthew Collings talking about art or, according to the DVDs I found in the library, a man who sounds like Matthew Collings yet looks suspiciously like Frankie Boyle due to the horrific colour and picture quality… talking about art. I […]
The joy of being a mixed media artists is that materials have no boundaries….well, for me I love flotsam and Jetsam, the opportunity of breathing new life into something old and forgotten, the possibilities of creating new connections, fresh meanings…….along […]