Assessing astronomy and our place within the cosmos from an unexpected viewpoint is a central theme in Perfume as Practice SS19; my upcoming solo show at Lumen Crypt Gallery, London. For the most part, this is achieved through perfumery and, […]
We installed the Dwell Time boards at five stations along the Penistone Line today. These are art works which featured in the Dwell Time publication by Hannah Honeywill, Emilia Wilson, Richard Shields, Sue Gardiner and Dianne Murphy. If you’re commuting […]
It is the final weekend for M. On Monday morning I shall drive a hire van over to Uppsala and with the help of Henny, the Art Cube’s artistic leader, pack it up and bring it back to Enköping. […]
A selection of the week’s best shows, including: immersive installation by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Nottingham Contemporary; formative Diane Arbus photography at Hayward Gallery; the burnished ceramics of Peter Hayes at Black Swan Arts in Frome.
A blog to document and discuss my Artist in Residence post at the Scottish Crannog Centre, supported by the Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities.
In this January review I touch on what exhibitions I am reading, what I am doing in my practice currently and what we are reading in our artists reading group. January inspiration included the exhibition by Chiharu Shiota installation at […]
Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom is one of three artists exhibiting in the Jerwood Solo Presentations 2019 exhibition at Jerwood Space, London. He tells Lydia Ashman how his installation draws on the nine colours featured in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights while also featuring footage from Russ Meyer’s sexploitation film, Up!
We are amidst a global mental health crisis. To bring about policy and culture change, we must think outside the pillbox. Through an ACE-funded Unlimited commission #MagicCarpet, we argue for ‘lofty arts’ in effecting cultural change in mental health.
I’m delighted to be a new member of the Royal Society of Sculptors this year.
Leeds-based artist Simeon Barclay brings to bear in his work a 16-year career in manufacturing and an interest in how identity is shaped. Amelia Crouch discusses a practice that encompasses sculpture, film and installation.
The London-based, Tallahasse-born artist who explored language and the paranormal in her art has passed away after a short illness.
A selection of the week’s best shows, including: George Shaw’s early inspiration revealed at the Paul Mellon Centre, London; the opening group show at a brand-new Middlesbrough art space; and Julie Mehretu’s drawings and monotypes at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Who’d have thought it would be so difficult to make more art? The problem arises when scale and ambition outgrow workspace. So my NYR#1: Make More Art! starts with a concerted effort to find bigger spaces to work in during […]
By researching empty retail environments, lecture halls and male-dominated architecture Euphrosyne Andrews combines printmaking and drawing with installation and catalogue production, to explore human behaviour. Richard Taylor finds out more.
In May 2018 I was invited to make a new work for Scaffold Gallery’s group exhibition There is No Such Thing as Boredom, at Paradise Works, Salford. The work was a response to the provocation in the title of […]
A short city based residency with 12 European artists
