Northumberland-born artist Peter Hanmer receives £6,500 to develop new work at site situated between Newcastle and Hexham.
Taking place every ten years, for 2017 Skulptur Projekte Münster presents work by an international line up of around 35 artists who present work in public spaces and museums across the city. Artist and senior lecturer in fine art at the University of Worcester S Mark Gubb reports.
Fantastic news, Rachel Ramchurn and I won our Arts Council Funding bid to carry out a Research and Development phase of our Project – a Pocketful of Treasures. Over the moon! Thank you Arts Council England. We have been collaborating […]
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including Renaissance drawing in Oxford, brand new sculpture in London and pioneering 19th century photography in Edinburgh.
It floats and drifts on Broadwater lake in an environment designed by Capability Brown it has been described as ‘majestic’ and like an ‘electron spinning around’… Wow! I am so pleased with this project and what I have learned so far, […]
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Kahlil Gibran I am not a natural learner. Well, not in the traditional, educational model of; linear, sequential, bite-sized chunks type learning, […]
Producing the Video The video itself is a recording of ten minutes per hour of an experiment of a machine learning algorithm solving the problem of a video game Pong. The duration of the video is roughly an hour as […]
A couple of weeks after I constructed the oak structure and rowed forth with it in tow onto the lake I am deep in other work and slightly panicking that I am not making the most of the artwork I […]
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including museum shows by Pink Floyd and Giacometti in London, sculpture in Salisbury and painting in Derry-Londonderry.
We meet on the first Thursday of the month, usually to listen to a speaker, followed by question and answer session/conversation I will discover from this blog as it progresses, how to go about it, how to write it. This […]
The Pieces Of Me Amy Dillwyn kept diaries throughout her life. The Pieces of Me are mono-prints of one personal diary that had large sections cut out. In removing these pieces, Dillwyn appears to be editing herself from or for […]
To comprehend the subject of cultural sexual exploitation and visually decipher it’s many constructs; I started drawing, experimenting with ink, form, the age of the girl and her poise. In figures XXXVIII the girl is alone and younger. The spots […]
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)
The Iron on the Dress is in response to Amy Dillwyn’s first steps of divorcing societal restraints and expectations. Many times she refers to herself as molten metal, a furnace. The act of pouring molten metal over the dress alludes […]
