Earlier in the year I was invited by the organisers to take part in the 8th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. My work was shown as part of the Poetry + Video programme curated by Marie Craven. But […]
Creation of art is not meant to be the worst thing in the day. Frequently it it the best thing. But getting started is SO often the worst thing. Talking with my mentor Rosalind Davis – I realised how much […]
Chris Sharratt, who as a freelance writer and editor has written for Frieze, the Guardian, Art Agenda, Sculpture Magazine and Art&Education and been arts editor at Metro, shares his experience and offers some top tips to consider when writing art reviews.
A two-week interdisciplinary residency to focus on my practice at the arts organisation Hospitalfield in Arbroath, Scotland. During this time I will be focusing on developing new artwork for the ongoing project Bummock: Tennyson.
Announcing the eight a-n members who will be taking part in our programme that supports writers to develop their skills in arts journalism and critical writing.
throwing a spider out of the bathroom window another runs in Walk with me, talk with me, write haiku, transform and have afternoon tea with me! Join me on the 9th of October during Cheltenham Literature Festival at Koj, Cheltenham’s […]
I first met Henry Miller in summer 2017; I was 23, ten years younger than Miller in Sexus, my reading of which being the first encounter. At this time my enthusiastic note-taking on the world was struggling to convince even […]
Thoughts on art, literature and philosophy as they intercept my life and practice.
This blog takes the form of a mystery thriller podcast telling the story of how Nick Malone came to become an artist. It underpins his upcoming exhibition of the same name which will run from 6th to 10th November at Art Bermondsey Project Space in London.
“Argillaceous Marl contains from 68 to 80 per cwt. of clay, and consequently from 32 to 20 per cent. of aerated calx. Its colour is grey or brown, or reddish brown, or yellowish or bluish grey. It feels more unctuous than the […]
Words and images from the development of an artist book, supported by an a-n Artist Bursary. An ongoing project concerned with mineral extraction, accelerated agriculture and sensation in scientific processes.
Is there something flawed about me writing on my own? When do I use the words I and we? When do I say they as if it’s their experience I am able to talk about? But it seems that even in groups, it is flawed to think […]
I took the kids to Sheffield for the day to see Utter Rubbish and the shows on at Millenium Galleries. We took the train along the Penistone Line and I made some quick notes in between building lego, handing out […]
On Wednesday March 21st a dinner was held at the apartment with the stone steps. The guests at this event were the poet and artist, Marton Koppany and his wife Gyongyi. During the dinner an idea emerged from the conversation around the table. The […]
Reflections on the Budapest Delegation, 2018
Reflections on participating in the Artists’ International Delegation 2018, Budapest: Dialogue, discussion, debate, and discourse. dialogue Noun 1 A conversation between two or more people as a feature in a book, play or film. 1.1 A discussion between two or […]
From the outset I am going to state that a lot of this post is based on assumptions or limited information. However, this writing is being used as an opportunity to lay out some thoughts prior to setting off to […]
One of the activities chosen prior to setting off on the a-n / Castlefield Budapest Artist Delegation 2018 is a suggested reading exchange. Everyone who will be part of the delegation has chosen a text, or in my case a […]
Refelections on a trip to Budapest as part of the a-n / Castlefield Artists’ International Delegation 2018
In the last of eight reviews stemming from the writer development workshop at Ikon Gallery in December, Trevor H Smith finds many questions left hanging in Edmund Clark’s exhibition, ‘In Place of Hate’. I am led down a strip-lit corridor, […]
For his review of Edmund Clark’s ‘In Place of Hate’, Martin Hamblen is struck by an absence on the inside. A walk-in, waist-high light box, constructed in the shape of a right angled capital C. On the exposed Perspex surface […]
