So its coming up to the end of my residency at Airspace. Very kindly the gallery let me stay on for two months longer, which has been invaluable in terms of really seeing the impact of living in the city […]
As my residency draws to an end, I feel slightly sad to realise that this will the last time I spend so much time in Hestercombe house. The smell and layout of the building has become a familiar dwelling and […]
As we all try and combat the January blues (again), I find it a useful pick-me-up to reflect on the previous year hoping that it will serve up some interesting revelation. 2014 was a productive year for me; I entered […]
My Solo exhibition ‘O’ opens on the 16th January 2015 running to the 24th at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent Read a little about the forthcoming show on Airspace Gallery’s website:http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/o_naomi_harwin
My residency at Airspace Gallery is moving into its fifth month and getting ever closer to my Solo show which will be held on the 16th – 24th January 2015. Trip to London In November I spent a few days […]
I’ve been working on an article for Workbox Magazine about cross-stitch as contemporary art, and I recently gave a talk at the Hack Circus Christmas Party about my project, and putting what I’m doing into words has been a really […]
It’s the final push for my crowd funding appeal, as it ends tomorrow. I’ve been working hard every day since 20th October promoting the project, and I’m now tired and burnt out. There is still a fair bit of money […]
Help fund my first Solo Exhibition. Graduate Residency artist at Airspace Gallery in Stoke-On-Trent. Today I have launched my crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo to raise funds to support the production of work and cost of materials and advertising for my […]
In the window As part of the Graduate Residency Alice and myself had the opportunity to put together an interim exhibition in Airspace’s window space. This allowing us to pilot some initial ideas and works, while also letting the people […]
I step out the airport taxi on to a sandy street. Sand! I know I grin, I’ve never lived anywhere where the city streets are sandy, and the exoticism thrills me. It’s now 3am, but the city doesn’t sleep. The […]
I have the good fortune of a whole row to myself on the airplane. I slump, put my feet up, then indulge in lying flat out across the three seats. However this feels far from indulgent. I’m uncomfortable, and apprehensive. […]
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.
Interest in my Thread of Life project is certainly gathering pace, although I still have a long way to go with my crowd funding campaign. This week I’ve been invited to BBC Radio Sheffield to talk about the project, and […]
As it took some time to post my first entry, I think it is appropriate to spend some time recording the activities of October. Preparation for one of these events began some months ago when Barton’s in Beeston, Nottingham announced […]
to hours and twenty minutes before the deadline … submission made to a residency opportunity. this one has been very significant – however the outcome of the submission goes. i spent weeks going around the houses and in the final […]
I have now spent just over two months here in Stoke-On-Trent as part of my Graduate Residency. And again my weeks have been filled with exciting activities along side my own developments in the studio. Here is what I have […]
Toby and I went to South Square today for a bit of R&D and the family arts festival. I was looking for visual remains/leftovers from previous exhibitions/activity in the space as a starting point for my drawings. Downstairs some wool […]
This blog will document the rest of my 6 month residency at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, which culminates in a final exhibition in the gallery space at the end of January.
My creative reflections were all discussed in my previous blog post. I discovered more than just artistic revelations on my residency. Now I am back from Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn in Cumbria, I am pushed back into city life. I […]
After finishing my book yesterday, I was left with lots of different ideas for how to start testing and playing. I wanted to carry on with the mini-projects I had begun to set myself (I like good project), they were […]
Today’s mini-project revolved around the notion of how we remember surface colours and how our eyes respond to light. Batchelor writes about the way in which we see colours as the property of the object. Even in different lighting conditions; […]
After an interesting first day of exploring the estate where the Merz Barn is located, I tried to set myself to work on something, anything. I struggled. I had put way too much pressure on myself to fabricate something, but […]
My interim exhibition is now on at Airspace Gallery in the window space. The show includes a selection of works made so far on my Graduate Residency here at Airspace, giving a taster of the works to come. The show […]
