
I’m a Failing Artist
I’m always going to fail and I’m always going to be an artist and that’s OK
I’m always going to fail and I’m always going to be an artist and that’s OK
Diary of my experience taking part in a project as part of Manifesta12. The related exhibition ran from 27 July – 4 November 2018
rethinking about art
more thoughts and reflections – solitude
A big thank-you to a-n for a Travel Bursary Award 2016, which will help support my travel/research costs towards producing new work this year.
Current work explores globalisation through its accelerated impact on city space. Operating at the intersection of urbanisation, postcolonialism and interculturalism, urban-spatial movements are sampled and traced within densely populated and expanding cities.
what happens if you look back….
Voids of life are true calling disguise as emptiness. Embrace them and you will find your purpose
Documentation of exhibition – Inland Project at APT Gallery for DeptfordX 2018. Collaborative project by Flora Bradwell, Sylwia Narbutt and Scott Lawrence Macfadyen.
‘8 Poor Copies’ is both a response to Richards’ show ‘Poor Copy’ at Northern Charter in April 2018, and a kind of manual for thinking through our respective practices, including our show ‘PooR Life by dog people’ at Transition Two Gallery, opening next week
I was delighted to hear I had been awarded an a-n Professional Development Bursary as I had already started on my project “Sound Scape” a collaboration between myself and Julia Harding, musician and composer for this work and this will provide the wherewithal to […]
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.
I’ve been thinking for months about Thérèse Dreaming, Balthus- 1938. Specifically, about the Met Museum’s description of the painting. The first line reads: “With closed eyes, Balthus’s pubescent model is lost in thought. Thérèse Blanchard, who was about twelve or […]
A great artist friend of mine died recently. I want to share some work from his last exhibition.
‘It’s OK not to be Perky’ – Part of the Love Arts Festival 2018 Leeds artist Helen Gibson – professionally known as The Perky Painter – shares her strange world of entwined forms expressed in bold colours and textures in […]
Securing a place on the a-n Visual Arts coaching course was the nudge I needed to propel me into an area of artist development that has great meaning to me.
In October 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish is (re)commencing a previous strand of dialogue based research: Talking Rubbish aka Rubbish Conversations. Semi-structured interviews with artists working with rubbish will be recorded and transcribed for this blog, with the view […]
A month long residency in Berlin at the BAI
July – September, in the studio At the start of the planned period of development I set out to focus more on my 2d image making, usually used as a rough quick tool to think out a form I […]
Walking Artist Residency
The Canterbury Journey is Canterbury Cathedral’s 5 year conservation project. This blog records the experience, research and work of Dawn Cole during her year long term as Artist in Residence in the Cathedral Archives for the Canterbury Jouney
I’m artist in residency at Brighouse Recycling Centre for Brighouse Festival 2018. I will be working on site researching and and undertaking Rubbish Conversations leading up to the Festival (5-14th October), culminating in a performance on site and exhibition at Brighouse Library
Socially engaged work – people living with HIV – 3D panels & audio visual installation
After years and years of illness, starting off late in life I was 4 years a silversmith student but sadly I just could not afford the course fees and had to leave, then my life took an unexpected turn, messing […]
The artwork should takes care of its own message