We are slowly getting close to completing the first prototype of the Mutable Drawing Surface, so I decided to upload more pictures of our progress here. The mechanism is working and running smoother after placing in additional gears and adding […]
There is a lot to take in within California wow!: giant MDF boxes disguised as mammoths, silky banner-collages standing in buckets of concrete and cheeky suns that appear to be blown up car air fresheners. Inverted brickwork mosaic, vertically poised […]
For Dark Matters, Edinburgh Printmakers has commissioned nine artists to create work in collaboration with astronomers and space engineers at the University of Edinburgh and the UK Astronomical Technology Centre. Richard Taylor sheds some light on the project.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Exhausted. The body clock thing is completely confused. Circadian rhythms have become a cacophony to be likened to that outside Farmfoods on a Saturday afternoon. The rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle has its ups, but this […]
Carlos Fernandes These sculptures i had done in the second year of my course in collaboration with Holywells park in Ipswich. It was a very interesting work, subject. When i was fronted with the duty to find someone, i was […]
A book of poetry and image, by myself and poet Philip Gross. The result of 2 years immersion in the landscape walking the rivers Taff and Frome, which produced a subtle and provocative book, questioning ways of seeing and collaboration.
Last week brought about the culmination of a collaborative project I have been working on for a few weeks. Part of our course requires us to work collaboratively in a group of 3 students to use a project space (empty […]
Orchidaceous was a collaborative project from last year with the Suffolk botanist Martin Sanford. Martin is an expert on orchids and so it seemed obvious we would work around that theme. Combing orchids and human sparked both our imaginations, so […]
http://mappingcollaboration.blogspot.co.uk/. A participatory exhibition that examines creatively working together and explores how our values for collaboration could be visually expressed, incorporated and mapped.
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artmaking / placemaking
“Dormant” – an appropriate word as it puts me in mind of the mouse (dormouse) at the Mad Hatter’s tea party, and describes the recent state of my blog here! In an only somewhat tenuous way the condition of my […]
Eight women come together to stitch scrolls.
A collaborative project between sound artist Joseph Young and ceramist J Kay Aplin to create a body of work that responds to the landscape of the Shetland Isles, inspired by the practice of John Cage.
This year’s engage International Conference takes place in Leeds in November, and is set to explore how innovation and risk taking in gallery education can often run parallel with a need to disrupt, subvert and ‘unsettle’. We speak to conference programmer Michael Prior to find out more.
I thought you might be interested to see how my experiments/artwork using Halen Mon salts are progressing. I’ve been using the chalk (washed from the salt) as a ground on the surface of glass sheets. I then cover with salt solution […]
Residencies are as diverse as the practitioners, organisations and environments that host them. From fee paying to sponsored, rural to urban and global to local. They provide a matrix for investigation, invention and exploration (at best) and at worst they […]
