Moira West, Fibre Artist
Shoddy exhibition
Disability art project: textiles, recycling, heritage, now
Shoddy exhibition
Disability art project: textiles, recycling, heritage, now
I’m an artist working primarily in sculpture and video. My work is made to investigate the worth, ownership and production of physical stuff, and how this translates to a world that is growing increasingly digital, immaterial and reproducible. My recent […]
Alright? I’m a Fine Art student at the University of Suffolk (previously University Campus Suffolk), and I’m now in my final year (my third year). How things goes so quick… For my first blog here, I’m going to be introducing my studies throughout my times at university.
Art Adventures and Explorations on an a-n Travel Bursary
I’m a painter, and have launched a Kickstarter – Painting dance – looking to raise funds to develop my recent work with Ballet Cymru and other professional dancers. Rewards include original paintings, prints and drawing workshops, so hopefully there are some nice incentive […]
This project is all about extending my professional skills in the visual presentation of public art proposals. I will be embarking on training in CAD and in 3D (physical) model making. The first stage is now complete: a CAD course at KLC in London – a great experience!
Building a useful network
An ongoing online digital art project about slogans
This was a wonderful opportunity to research a remarkable tree, especially as it has been appreciated and held in high regard for hundreds of years here in Wales.
To accompany Empire and Arcadia, a new work made for the first Estuary Festival and installed in Tilbury, Gravesend and Margate.
I am collecting stories about mothers, exploring the complex subject of maternal relationships. I invite visitors to come and sit in my pseudo-domestic setting, and ‘tell me about your mother…’
Enameling bursary , to develop my hot and cold enamelling skills
This blog documents my period of study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Enrolled in the Sound Department, I was the recipient of the school’s prestigious Trustee’s Merit Scholarship for the duration of my degree studies.
‘There are no black skins, there are no white skins. Human skins are just different shades of orange.’ Neil Harbisson. The British-born artist Neil Harbisson’s rare form of colour blindness and resulting appendage which enables him to hear colour was […]
These are our dreaming spaces.
The romanticism of the abandoned house given over the the steady creep of the wild, and the role of art to re-draw our understanding of environment.
For a three months residency, the Something Useful Project supports me at the Fine Arts department of the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in the city of Surat, found in the North western state of Gujarat in India.
Art language location’s day of performances
A blog about working in both traditional and digital media with electronics
I have a complicated relationship to artist, writer, and filmmaker Miranda July. I like her, and that’s complicated. July and I both started producing work around the same time out of the same scene. I witnessed early film projects and […]
This is my blog about my current series of spiritual art, seeking a meditative view of the universe, with abstract paintings of people and places.
As one of the art tutors with Sense Scotland this project brought together ten people re-discovering a particular architectural space. In the Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, which first opened in 1901, the red sandstone and marble tiled flooring interior […]
I’m leaving New York tonight to return to England and today isn’t quite the flurry of meet ups and activities that I had planned. The Chelsea Manhattan bombing last night combined with general New Yorkers busy-ness meant that several of […]
I am an artist who work mainly with wool and crochet. In this blog, I would like to explore recurrent themes in my work such as protection vs imprisonment as well as my relationship with the suburban non-traditionally artistic environment in which I live and work.
Each month an artist is selected to show their work and working practice in the Minories Galleries shop. This month it is my turn!
Midtown makers in Church Street still have a few spaces left for artists and craftsfolk to share their work. Come and Visit.