There is something quite special about working by the stream. I enjoyed sitting there and picking apart my thoughts about the landscape and it’s boundaries. I had been thinking about boundaries as a notion contracted by man. Questioning whether […]
I struggled to place the items back in the landscape. The process of collecting and painting had become a ‘thing’ in itself, and so when it came to placing such jarring colours into this site which had provided me with […]
My first step was to walk. For some reason the thoughts flow easier when walking. The process of the development of thoughts seems more fluid when the body is in the repetitive action of one foot in front of the […]
I have been in residence since 11th September and have been so busy that I haven’t been able to get this blog up and running until today. As my residency co-incides with h.Art week there is a constant stream of […]
This blog is somewhere for me to share my thoughts, ideas and responses to my week long residency at The Sidney Nolan Trust.
As part of this year’s Heritage Open Days across England, six artists have been commissioned to produce site-specific work at the English Heritage site Fort Brockhurst in Gosport. Pippa Koszerek speaks to the artist and curator behind the Space Interrupted project.
The London and Mull-based artist Charles Avery discusses his ongoing project, The Islanders, and its evolution for a new site-specific commission as part of this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival.
Artangel‘s latest commission, a site-specific outdoor performance piece from theatre director and dramaturg Lu Kemp, explores our changing experiences of ageing, care provision, family and gender through three intimate vignettes involving an older man and young boy. Pippa Koszerek finds out more from the director.
A new exhibition and collaboration between artists Emilia Telese and Binita Walia providing commentaries and insight on how the role of women is shaped and constrained by social, economic and political contexts.
2 – 30 March 2015 Liz West’s new work Subjective Mixtures #1 created in situ for the Bloc Billboard on Jessop Street, Sheffield. West explores drawing as something not confined to two dimensions. During the creation of her work, whether making […]
The surname, Rookes, of the women who ran The Widow’s Coffee House was an irresistible pun. Rooks are notoriously clever gregarious birds. Rookery isn’t just where rooks nest, it can also mean deception or trickery. Bird is a derogatory word […]
My Art Licks: It’s been a busy time this past month, with singing rehearsals for Deptford X, daily secondary school viewings for next year – finding the ‘right’ fit for the next 7 years of her life is a big […]
a-n New Collaborations Bursary Award
Collaboration, experimentation, trial and error (with salt)
A £10m programme to commemorate three key dates from the first world war will see new works by Anya Gallaccio, Richard Wentworth and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Despite a major Kurt Schwitters’ show at Tate Britain last year, the future of the German artist’s Merz Barn in Cumbria remains uncertain. Ian Hunter of the Littoral Trust, which bought the dilapidated barn building in 2006, explains how things stand with the project and why the continued involvement of artists is key to its future.
The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery, designed by award-winning architect Zaha Hadid, is an impressive new London art space – but it’s the inaugural, site-specific exhibition by the Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas that steals the show.
