ART, LIGHT AND WELLBEING Taking time to reflect on work so far, it is great to look at what has been achieved and how the audience has responded to the installations completed over the last 12 months… KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • […]
As a neglected child, with a neglected history and heritage, my first question was: What does neglect look like? It becomes easier to remember when alone in the basement and without any contact to the outside world. There is also […]
Presenting the En’Light’en project at the Velux Symposium in Berlin, then engaging with the audience was a fantastic opportunity to share ideas on the theme of light and wellbeing and to explain the aims of the En’Light’en project to a […]
Being Artist-in-Residence at Canterbury Cathedral is a great opportunity and one that I am very excited about. The opportunity to make work in response to research in their archives and to work with their archivists and conservationists will I hope […]
A blog of my Professional Development Bursary, learning new skills in metal work and After Effects
Jenny Steele’s research project ‘Miami Moderne’ is supported by an Artists International Development Grant from Arts Council England and The British Council. She will be researching into 1930s-1940s modernist seafront architecture within Miami Beach.
If you read my blog, you will be familiar with my struggles with the rigors of the MA course I am pursuing. Every now and again I hit on something which makes sense to me and this has been one […]
As I think about the Edinburgh walk I am reflecting on this line from Larry Eigner: “a poem can be like walking down a street and noticing things, extending itself without obscurity or too much effort” Larry Eigner’s writing made […]
This international symposium had as it’s focus how light can be used to create buildings that promote human health and well-being. Attracting world renowned architects; designers; engineers and researchers, it provided an exciting forum for the exchange of ideas and for the sharing of innovative work […]
A year of public talks and collective research and practice themed around ‘The Future’. AltMFA is a free, open alternative art school run by its peers.
As we are preparing for the #ThreadandWord walk in Edinburgh, I was delighted to receive the following from one of our artist walkers. Jill Rock http://www.cargocollective.com/JillRock “thinking on Chile and my time there after watching Neruda the film today it did […]
I am delighted to have presented the En’Light’en Project at the 7th VELUX DAYLIGHT SYMPOSIUM IN BERLIN, 3-4 MAY 2017 (http://thedaylightsite.com). Nearly 400 attendees were there to hear all about the project and the presentation was also streamed live to […]
Looking into connections between autobiographical memory and clothing, linking art and science through research and material investigation.
Image: Untitled (STB), 2011, plaster, 30 x 12.5 x 9.5 cm (cast of inside of clothing)
DEVELOPMENTS #ThreadandWord So ideas and events from the walk last March have developed in many different ways. Quipucamayocs I have been busy in the studio making ‘Quipucamayocs’, a series of artefacts using the ropes knotted by the walkers […]
What does it mean to have all the colours available to you as an artist? We just can click and order, browse wondrous shops full of pigments or go onto our devices and swipe, touch and tap our way […]
Walking with the Waste Land Creating new encounters through walking. April : The Garden Gate to Northdown Park. We have just started a series of exploratory walks following a route from the Garden Gate in Margate through Northdown House gardens […]
Art Making Art Thinking – intermittent conversations visual and written
Just begun a new painting about a childhood memory of holidays in Portland, Dorset. I found a tiny black and white photo of myself, my brother and mum at a place called Church Ope Cove in Dorset. I remember so […]
“Let’s Talk about Vivienne” A walk , by the Walking with the Waste Land group at the Turner Contemporary. Saturday March 11th. A Photo Diary, creating new encounters. A performance by Jill Rock at Turner Contemporary Invoking Vivienne, through the […]
This walk includes a performance by Jill Rock, inspired by the Epigraph to the Wasteland, ‘Sybil” A small intervention by Elspeth Penfold at the Nayland Rock Shelter.’Menstrual Discord’. Referencing Cecilia Vicuña’s ‘Quipu Menstrual’ With words by Judy Dermott accompanied by […]
A Walk on March 5th, #ThreadandWord @espacio gallery for Threads Exhibition curated by the Artists Pool Rope knotted by Robert Zammit Pace who joined the walk after attending the PV at Espacio. I hope this gives you a flavour of […]
A recently launched survey from the Creative Industries Federation examines the role freelancers play in the UK’s creative industries.
