
Pointing North
Highlighting just some of the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season.
Highlighting just some of the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season.
If there is any single shared idea about art, it’s that it can be transformative. Aliceson Carter came to art late, and her ‘story’ and her work, bear out the deconstructive and reconstructive potential of creativity. Here she talks to Andrew Bryant about Goldsmiths, blogging and being on the outside.
I. B. Tauris, London
13 September 2011 to 27 September 2013
I’ve been reading more Richard Schechner today (Between Theater and Anthropology), because I’m putting together a project about restored behaviour. Schechner writes about ‘twiceness’ in performance: that a character being performed is both ‘not’ that character (because it’s really an […]
The one redeeming feature about piano lessons is that it gives me one captive hour (assuming I can keep the waiting siblings from murdering one another) to read, write blog entries, assess homework and work on whatever art work I […]
So going on my discussion with the students at Wey Valley School the object I have produced does not communicate anything of the concept but is still a valid object as it would not have been produced had I not […]
So now I have a plan, but stuckness still lives here and I’m just pushing really hard against doing absolutely nothing. If I were to write a list of what I have done it would be… … well why not […]
Feeling a bit better about things after this weekend. I went to the opening of the Creekside Open in Deptford on Saturday afternoon, which was a really positive experience. The exhibition, which was selected by Phyllida Barlow, was probably the […]
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
21 January – 20 March 2011
Curator Lauren A Wright discusses her ‘journey’ to Margate.
So bringing together autobiographical content with the process of collecting, organising and displaying objects is my current challenge. I need to find the balance between the two major elements of ‘concept’ and ‘process’. SELECTION In order for me to represent […]
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Walsall
21 January – 20 March 2011
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2 October 2010 – 6 March 2011
I am persevering with the speech recognition but I realise that my Belfast accent is challenging it somewhat. I have found if I want it to type correctly I need to don the persona of a BBC newsreader circa 1960. […]
Loved watching the Turner Prize announcement on C4 last night while also keeping up with the plethora of tweets on the student protests at the Tate.This is how social media should be! News from those on the inside, and tweeting […]
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
23 October 2010 – 9 January 2011
Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
18 September 2010 to 28 November 2010
Liverpool Biennial-The Oratory, St James Cemetery (next to Liverpool Cathedral), Liverpool
18 September – 28 November 2010
12 Visual art representatives address the damage that will be inflicted by proposed spending cuts, in a letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
Pots of Liquid Flesh It was a Friday evening. Mike and Bill were playing chess and I was surfing the internet searching for images of Lucian Freud’s paintings. Suddenly I stumbled across a painting by Jenny Saville, and the hairs […]
Royal Academy, London
3 December 2009 – 31 January 2010
I wouldn’t be here normally other than the fact that the lie-in didn’t quite go as planned. Three things conferred to sabotage it. Firstly, the duck next door which thinks it’s a cockeral, quacked in bursts relentlously like a machine […]
‘It is with very deep regret that the Trustees announce that KUBE will close from 31st January 2010 and Abi Kremer’s exhibition, ‘Colour & Inspiration: Paintings 1979 – 2009′, will be the last in this building’ This is the email, […]
Sarah Lucas told Tracey Emin she had better be an artist because there was nothing else she could do – so says Emin in an interview re The Shop she and Lucas opened. I have usually found a sense of […]