Exhibiting politics at the Venice Biennale 2013
Some reflections on the Venice Biennale, and ‘The Encyclopaedic Palace’ curated show described in a number of reviews as ‘blindingly apolitical’.
Some reflections on the Venice Biennale, and ‘The Encyclopaedic Palace’ curated show described in a number of reviews as ‘blindingly apolitical’.
This is the final stage of the 3 year long Look About project – I will blog the reviewing of over ‘one million minuites’ of lifelog and creating a Geological Map from the information – The project sets my everyday […]
To the Light Exhibition was my Solo show at Bruce Castle Museum in Tottenham in 2014 that takes as its starting point, the powerful depictions of the destruction of the 2011. Riots which spread from London to Manchester and moves […]
This is my first residency. It has been awarded by The Collection, Lincoln, University of Lincoln School of Art and Design and Synapse Arts. I shall be responding to the 18thC Derby porcelain in the Charles Norman Collection.
Supporting the exhibition Portfolio NW (the Bluecoat, Friday 26 July – Sunday 15 Sept 2013), this blog features new critical writing from North West based writers, artists and curators. Bringing together eight North West-based artists, Portfolio NW celebrates creative talent […]
A one-off blog in response to my time at the Venice Biennale launch. I’m going to have to post it in four bits, so read post 4 first. You’ll see what I mean…
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.
Crossing transatlantic boundaries, this blog presents a collaborative reading and interpretation of Michel Chion’s significant text Guide Des Objects Sonores: Pierre Schaeffer et la Recherche Musicale (1983). Perspectives have been developed with the Chicago-based sound artist and educator Monica Ryan.
Gnawing at bits of a video I’m working on. With a piano in it.
This blog aims to present activity during a 7 day period of residence in Outlandia, Glen Nevis, Scotland. Outlandia is an off-grid treehouse artist studio and fieldstation in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. A flexible meeting space in the forest for […]
Live art, sound and the short lived via a succession of varying situations bound in time.
This blog contains some of the various observations on Veince Biennale 2013 that I was able to attend thanks to an a-n go and see bursary. I have a particular interest in manifestos and performance but cover the event more […]
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.
Posts include: ‘Makers HeadRoom’ – a makers group using Zoom to work together online; the ‘Artists Insight’ mentoring sessions, the theory of ‘The Creative Cycle’ and articles about drawing, persistence, learning, earning and being male
This sums up the question both within my practice which presently uses photography/collage and to find exhibition opportunities and audiences.
Following the progress of my Studio 4 residency at Chisenhale Art Place, where am making a series of etchings in response to the large broken glass windows at the back of the Chisenhale building. www.chisenhale.co.uk
An investigation into edgelands, non-places and spaces traversed on the way to somewhere else. How can film be used to create collages about such places and how can the limitations of the camera influence what is captured?
I have had a fantastic response to my request for mentoring from 4 South West curators and arts organisations, funded by this brilliant a-n bursary offer. I am looking forward to receiving their support at an exciting time when I am […]
An Exploration of Female Same Sex Partnerships through Portraiture
On Self-Portraiture, a collaboration between Brook Hobbins, a sculptor and myself.
up (unwritten possibilities) is a trans-disciplinary creative group set up by Gerald Curtis, Bree Morrison and Sabina Stefanova. This blog documents their projects.
This week, a group of 25 artists, filmmakers and musicians from Islington Mill in Salford have come out to Ibiza for a 2 week residency. www.islingtonmill.com
Blog following a four weeks artists residency at Open Plan project space hosted by Departure Foundation, London.
Happy to be the recipient of an a-n Re:View bursary, blogging the process as it unfolds
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