The Struggling Artist
Making Art is one thing making a living out of it is another.
Making Art is one thing making a living out of it is another.
Last year for expedient reasons, mainly to make my day job more challenging, I developed an artist residency programme within a product design research centre Makers Using Technology.
I am undertaking a residency at Guldagergaard Ceramic Research Centre in Denmark to make new work that will be exhibited at The Ceramic House in May 2014, setting the context for the exhibition Fantastic Tales: Danish Contemporary Ceramics with 15 […]
Am I an artist who writes or a writer who makes art? Are these hybrids even possible? Should I even have a blog here? I was hoping you might tell me…
an accompaniment and documentation of my attempt to make 12 applications to artistic opportunities in 2014. this idea was born out of becoming aware that i’d let my portfolio slip into disrepair and seeing three opportunities that appealed to me […]
I have recently been accepted for the AA2A (Artists Access to Art Colleges) at Staffordshire University where I have a studio space and access to the facilities. Here I will be showing my experiments during the months I have here.
What is real? What is an original in a digital age?
This blog will document my current residency at Airspace Gallery in Stoke-On-Trent.
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Following the success of Xavier White’s Full Circle exhibition at Mausdey Learnings ORTUS learning and events centre in the summer. Xavier has been asked by the curator of The Bethlem Gallery to exhibit a Cohedia installation , Beckenham
Working in Cornwall within my domestic role.
So I am a ‘mature’ (33yrs) Art & Design student in my 2nd year at University. I am thoroughly enjoying my course and very slowly establishing what kind of practitioner I am – a ‘Mixed Media and Textile artist’. I would love to chat to other students or artists!
Worked with The Fling Festival 2014 – Chelmsford – Hylands Park- running a mosaic workshop – with The Ideas Festival Gang all the mosaic tiles created now form the front of the Art Cafe Counter.
Working towards a solo exhibition in June 2014 at The Brindley, Runcorn. Research|Residency|Project space|Exhibition|Planning for the future
I am visual artist based in Istanbul/Turkey. My artwork is ranging from painting to drawing, installation and video..I was living and working in Istanbul. Just 8 days past I moved in Uk. It was quite long time (since 2010) that […]
Excerpts from the blog inkinarea, an experimental, online sketchbook project, created in collaboration with an inspirational, hat-wearing, apple tree watching Canadian writer and poet. View the project at – https://inkinarea.wordpress.com
or; Leaving London
or; How living in the middle of nowhere is making me more creative.
As an artist I have used narrative in various ways my whole life. I just want to hold the idea of narrative art up to the light a bit by having conversations with artists in the UK and internationally who love and work with stories.
Brand new Gallery in Huddersfield, Unit 9 Gallery, a brand new space. I have a painting up in there, Rusted Revolutions, part of the Chaos Agriculture series.
The Gallery is at : Unit 9, Market Avenue, Huddersfield, HD1 2BB
Don’t think too deeply or introspectively…. just paint….just live.
Working progress of a practicing artist with an interest in texture, surface and atmosphere.
In 1981 I made a video called ‘when was NOW’. All these years later I am making Version 2 of this video. My concerns were initially with the inherent contradiction of what we regard as the ‘here and now’ – […]
Re:view // Re:consider// Re:appear I received funding for a series of mentoring sessions with Rachel Anderson, producer of collaborative projects at Artangel http://www.artangel.org.uk I hoped the mentoring would enable me to evaluate and consider the place of my large […]
On this blog I aim to discuss my ideas and frustrations about being an artist and the arts rather than my practice.