How can I bring my interests of the Dada movement when working with people? Is it to employ the use of chance? How can this develop anything new? or is it simply creating a set of techniques? I developed a […]
I am a person that has many a conversation with myself, instead of internalising them into something damaging, I am externalising them, turning them in to a positive, into my art practice and into a conversation that others can join, […]
Many amazing things have happened to me since i commited to healing so I’m sharing them here. I named my self-funded touring and evolving, site specific installation Completion #9. The tour takes it to centres of ‘healing’ in various forms. […]
This is my diary about my final year at UCS studying Fine Art
Doggerland is a new research initiative, supported by a-n’s New Collaborative Research Bursary. We hope to use this blog to ponder speculative questions about the development of the project, as we begin to survey the breadth of artist led spaces […]
A record of 7 days spent at the Merz Barn.
A journal charting my change in media from painting to making art jewellery, and navigating the waters of trying to make it pay for itself
Having just completed my Masters at BCU in Art Practice and Education I find myself wondering “what comes next?” and searching for new ideas and inspirations to challenge and stimulate myself. Back in my classroom, the realisation that I can […]
Currently in the 3rd Yr of a Fine Art degree at Hereford College of Art. I became editor of our student magazine ‘Palette’ at the end of my 1st year and re-started it. I’d love to hear from other art […]
Charting our 20-day residency period where we shed our feminine gender and attempt to step inside the guise of men.
Oxford Brookes’ BA (Hons) Fine Art course enables students to develop and produce challenging contemporary artworks that often emphasise audience and context, and investigate the role of the artist in the 21st century.
Blue Monkey Network is an artists’ organisation run by artists for artists. Organiser Judith Alder, runs the Network in partnership with Eastbourne’s Towner gallery, who invited Blue Monkey to establish the Network in 2011. Since then the group has held […]
Sifting through old diaries, notebooks, sketchbooks, scraps of paper I realise these thoughts might have some coherence alongside my ongoing collection of photos of things that aren’t really there.
Out of rejection came an opportunity; an opportunity to play with space. Out of a feeling of ho-hummness about making endless applications came a chance to think on my feet and be suspended in the moment of making. Working site […]
Happy to be the recipient of an a-n Re:View bursary, blogging the process as it unfolds
This blog contextualises a project exploring sEMG biofeedback in performance and sound art. The project is supported by the a-n New Collaborations. The author is Victoria Gray, a visual artist specializing in performance, and the project collaborators are, Oliver Larkin, […]
This year I’ll be researching the nature of communication with a small research grant from the Arts Council of Wales. I will be recording ‘human soundtracks’ and creating an audio-visual ‘orchestra’ for May. I’ll work with musicians and individuals with […]
For the last four years SLWA have actively been involved at the Women of the World Festival (WoW) during International Women’s Day in March. We normally promote our organisation and artists inside the Royal Festival Hall. This year was different […]
During a research trip to Chongqing, China, I will explore how we gesture with our bodies when we write or draw, where the languages of drawing and writing meet and diverge, how the gestures change with the scale upon which […]
Exciting and new developments are happening within South London Women Artists (SLWA). We have just become a Limited Company by guarantee and we are in the process of applying for charitable status. SLWA is in it’s 6th year and every […]
Rather than talk about my work on here (I have tried it and it seems to make me quite despondent) I have decided it will be far more helpful for me to explore some of the issues facing artists trying […]
BA Fine Art
Reflections on grief and the creative process, prompted by my current solo show of sculptures ‘The Gifts of The Departed’ at Manchester Craft and Design Centre, until March 2014 and the showing of The Gifts (2010) at Zhejiang Museum in […]
But, having won a Review bursary my hand has been forced and here I am dipping my toe in the digital stream with some thoughts that will noodle around my attempts to once again re-invent my mode of work.
This blog traces the continuing development of two projects begun during my recent Masters degree. Questioning the nature of objects, images and experiences, I am interested in the unreliability or inconsistency of images and meaning, and how we might or […]
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