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The focus will be the struggle to put together work that reflects the crisis that Modernism represents and how artists find ‘authority’ for their work in a world dominated by a scientific rationalism that denies any truth value to art. […]

The title says it all, really.

After realising that it had been such a long time since I had actually drawn anything I foundthat my drawing skills had dwindled somewhat! So I have decided it’s time to learn to draw (again)

An insight into my creative practice in the build up to the final degree show at Oxford Brookes University. Through the investigation of embroidery, I am attempting to capture notions of the sublime through domestic stitch using imagery from the […]

BA Fine Art Studying a Degree at Lincoln University

My current project explores animal behaviour vs human behaviour, influenced by the story wolf Alice by Angela Carter I am intrigued by societies forced impact on what humans perceive as normal/acceptable behaviour. set in domestic settings to contrast traditional feminine […]

For the last year I’ve been engaged with the largest single work I’ve ever made – a free-standing hand-made paper sculpture, 1 metre high and 17 metres long, constructed in the form of a huge concertina book, called Thames to […]

On return from a residency in China in July 2011, I have moved from London to Manchester. I am charting how this geographic move affects my career as an artist.

A journey through the making of Lace in Place, a project commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. Happy moment versus worrying moments.

I’m Gerald Curtis and this is my first project blog. I am the first artist to start New ferry Butterfly Park’s series of ‘COMMA’ mini residencies in the town of New Ferry just outside of Liverpool. This blog is a […]

Dipping my toe in the blogging pool again

This blog will document my journey through an MA in Fine Art with the Open College of the Arts. It is the first MA of it’s kind (Fine Art via distance learning), hence the title. It will also form the […]

One year, cycle. After many years supporting & encouraging others in the arts, I’ve prioritised, it’s my turn. Usual dilemma? Juggling 3 days paid arts sector working with freelance work. Clay bodies & surface the media, realised initially in drawing […]

Advocating better working conditions for artists. Following on from where ‘Getting Paid’ left off.

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Just before Christmas 2011 I was successful in getting an Arts Council grant to carry out a photography project documenting the people and places in Shard End to create an exhibition and web resource for the opening of the new […]

The University of Incidental Knowledge is a collaboration based on a higher education model, incorporating self-directed and peer-to-peer learning, initiated by UK-based artist and curator Alice Bradshaw. Incidental Knowledge is acquired by chance; through the process of doing something else […]

This blog documents the development of Transit of Venus, a project by David Henckel, which has been commissioned by In Certain Places. David is one of five artists selected to create new artworks in response to the city of Preston, […]