Exchange run an art residency programme providing support for early career artists, focusing on development of practise, critical discussion and the exchange of ideas.
Follow my journey and experiences during my six week residency at The Finborough Arms.
Conversations with my mother – taking my artist book on an adventure
Building a useful network
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.
A month-long trip exploring Orkney and the Outer Hebrides, during August 2016. The journey included vising Arts Centres, meeting curators and artists, and making drawings about the sense of place.
To accompany Empire and Arcadia, a new work made for the first Estuary Festival and installed in Tilbury, Gravesend and Margate.
Gene Expression: A Wellcome Trust funded project exploring the role of the thymus in autoimmune diseases, interpreted through video-art and prints.
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.
Art language location’s day of performances
Writing is most alive when directly engaged in the experience—as a cartography of an encounter or inner space. Recently I stumbled across an interview with photographer Uta Barth where she was asked why narrative annoyed her. Barth’s response captures […]
For the past several months I have been thinking a lot about art in a Brexit, Trump, Syria world, as art appears to be coasting along in a rather vegetative state nonetheless. This isn’t necessarily a call for a […]
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 […]
Artist with a participatory, enquiry-led practice seeks an alternative to the “more people == more better” metric for measuring success.
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.
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.
Artwork looking at gender equality, stereotypes and displacement.
final works and finishing touches – careful not to start all over again!
A bit of performance embroidery
An arts-based inquiry into human and limpet entanglements over time.
Turns out I’m not very good at keeping Blogs (need to work on that)….But I do take pictures!
I’ve booked in to a workshop with Kate after discovering her work on FB. I feel inspired to work with other artists who have similar interests, celtic mysticism, anam cara, and being in touch with one’s inner self. The journey inwards to the universe.
A collection of thirty-four images documenting signs of life in urban spaces
What we need today is New Art, original and authentic work. People are tired of the derivative art of Post Modernism, of the art that is calculated to shock and undermine our inherited wisdom, of the art that is produced […]