The Elephant in the Haunted Castle
An arts project in development
An arts project in development
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. […]
Welcome to my first ever blog. This is new territory to me and I am just getting used to things. I work in acrylic paint and am a keen photographer.
I’m horrified by the persistence of violent conflict involving civilians all over the world. Ours is such a small world, and it is being destroyed. Towns and cities reduced to rubble in Syria, middle-class civilians in Kiev making ‘napalm’ bombs, […]
Henri 100 years ago – is the pre-project project made for Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre in Cwmbran South Wales – it will lead on to an Arts Council of Wales funded research project at National Museum of Wales Cardiff in 2015
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 […]
Hi my name is Abigail Victoria Graham and welcome to my blog. AVG, obviously are my initials and Pinky, well… i just love pink. I am currently in my final year of my degree in Fine Art at UCS. This […]
I am taking the oppportunity of the RE-VIEW artist bursary provided by a-n to share and analyse the learning journey I am taking; my aim is to push my practice onto the next level.I have identified four steps I need […]
PRIMARY Old Skool Breaks 8: From a Dizzying Height Mik Godley and Rebecca Beinart present new work exploring stories of expulsion, migration and return. Large scale drawings and installation From 2013-2014 Primary artists present ‘Old Skool Breaks’, a series of […]
At the start of this blog I am reminded of two tutors comments 1, ‘What you put in is what you will get out.’ 2 ‘This course will change your life’ both comments reasonate with me as my art practice […]
I will be exploring ideas about the mystery and darkness of the sea. My work will be in the form of paintings.
A project, by Art Space Portsmouth artist Adrian Mundy, using gardens and plants and turning them into a new body of work with exhibitions in 2016.
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, […]
Art is something that stimulates the mind of the viewer. Whatever the form “appreciation”, appears in, it is all through the mind, from an ora, that can not be seen.
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 […]
My Fine Art degree project is based predominantly on cave paintings and carvings. I am painting on large canvases, using oil and acrylic paint as well as oil sticks and pastels. The work is spontaneous and bodily movements are important. […]
Keeping it short and sweet.
This is a blog about RE-Create my clothing renovation app I created through lockdown and an Archive blog since 2012 on Art+ Fashion.
this time it’s serious……
Following on from my busy year working on the ‘Hidden Landscapes Project’ and adjusting to the new demands of motherhood, I’m still trying to fathom how it’s all going to pan out. My work continues to focus on the town […]
This is my diary about my final year at UCS studying Fine Art
In this blog I am examining the way society is still patriarchal. How do I explore this visually? What images can capture this? How do I cohesively portray this? Can I do this powerfully and aesthetically? How do I avoid […]
contemporary. conceptual.
Land Strategies 06.01.2014 to 21.02.2014 residency. My project is about constant disturbance through the dislocation of site by the artist in relation to place. It straddles the border between art and research and consists of the development of thoughts and […]
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 […]