The last year, since closing my last blog, has been pretty challenging. Now creative work is moving forwards again, I have a few things to write about, and I’ve been having lots of fun with fire …
BA (hons)Fine Art
Unrecorded is a document of the development of my performance based practice over the later course of 2012 culminating in the creation of a piece of performance in 2013. It covers funding performance, realising developing performance work and establishing myself […]
After finishing the MFA course at Goldsmiths in August 2012, I vowed not to return to facilitating workshops in schools. Seven months of fruitless job searching later (part-time, well-paid please) and here I am again, working freelance as an art […]
This week, a group of 25 artists, filmmakers and musicians from Islington Mill in Salford have come out to Ibiza for a 2 week residency. www.islingtonmill.com
Fine Arts BA(Hons) at York St John University is about innovation in current fine arts practice. Our programmes encourage creative and critical thinking through practice, to sustain, develop and extend the contribution of the fine arts to wider culture and […]
A month-long experiment to find outa) whether scheduling studio time will help me make more work b) whether dedicating a day a week to doing my mending will be as fulfilling in reality as it is in my fantasy andc) […]
A weekly diary of my three month residency at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Where I will be exploring texture within the digital video medium.
I study ‘Fine and Applied Arts’, at Canterbury Christ Church University. The course is highly Versatile and students can choose to work in a number of areas, incuding ceramics, sculpture, glass, etching…. www.clairesart.org.uk [email protected] Please find me on Facebook under […]
Socially Engaged Adventures blog maps the journey of co-mentoring between Ruthie Ford & Ania Bas. Since 2011 Ruthie & Ania have been exploring socially engaged issues, language and practice whilst visiting artists, arts projects and arts organisations working in the […]
The inner ponderings and struggles possibly met during a residency at a private school.
BA(hons)Fine Art
I was awarded the Metal International residency to Shanghai as part of the Liverpool Art Prize and was in residence for four weeks in the city during November 2012. This blog now charts how works begun in Shanghai continue to […]
I left a secure job in 2012 in teaching to focus solely on my art practice and see what happens. At the same time I took on an allottment. My plot is no 39.
A blog detailing my experiences during a 5 week research residency in Beijing based at artist-led space HomeShop. I am hoping that the research residency will develop my knowledge of early print and publishing forms within the context of contemporary […]
I have been selected to participate in the AA2A residency at the University of Salford and I will document the experience on my blog. The AA2A project provides placements for visual artists and designers in Higher and Further Education institutions […]
Two anonymous women slash and repair three interchangeable bodies at the whim and fancy of the audience; who is in control?
I’m currently on a three week visit to Zhejiang University as part of the Study China Programme, organised by Manchester University. I had set up a word press blog to document my visit but I can’t access it here. Neither […]
Ramblings of life after graduating from a fine art degree and working in the education sector.
My desire to develop and liberate my jewellery practice from small scale industrial craft production inspired me to start a reflective personal project to create new work. A result of this reflection is that I’ve begun to research part time […]
This blog is about what, why and how I produce my art, and also what I do with it – be it in exhibitions, competitions, or sit in a corner of a room ashamed of itself.
Documenting the run up to my first solo show at the prestigious Cornerhouse arts venue in Manchester,UK. The show opens on the 18th April, and I have many personal factors (i.e. children/lack of funds/time) to contend with in the run […]
I am in my final year at Staffordshire University studing Fine Art ( BA hons)
Between the 11th – 28th of March, I will be undertaking a residency at Wolverhampton Art Gallery and making work in response to its collections. The work will be developed from the Victorian, Georgian and Geology Collections. http://www.davidbethell.com/index.php/artwork/work…
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