The project looks at the development of green spaces in the urban environment, linking projects like New Ferry Butterfly Park with similar initiatives. The infamous Favelas in Brazil are synonymous with poor living conditions. In the last 10 years there […]
‘It’ is ever-present. It does things whilst he watches and reflects. It visits places where he feels uncomfortable, a bull in what seems to be the fragile china shop of the mind. The bull has a habit of trampling on […]
Unrecorded is a document of the development of my performance based practice over the later course of 2012 culminating in the creation of a piece of performance in 2013. It covers funding performance, realising developing performance work and establishing myself […]
As one of the art tutors with Sense Scotland this project brought together ten people re-discovering a particular architectural space. In the Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, which first opened in 1901, the red sandstone and marble tiled flooring interior […]
MK Gallery have selected eight graduates/students from their region to participate in Showcase 2012. We have a week each in the project space at the Gallery during August and September. The proposal is to use my time in the space […]
Blog following my residency at the Nunnery Gallery, London. I will be responding to the work of Outsider artist Madge Gill and producing a new series of drawings for the exhibition ‘Autography’, opening 23 August 2012.
I am starting a residency on Epsom Common. This is a project I have devised and organised in conjunction with the local council, arts organisations and the city of London. There will be three art walks over the summer, they […]
My first blog ‘Keeping It Together’ came to a natural end when I moved in to my studio. ‘Keeping It Going’ picks up where that left off. Will I be able to maintain a blog at the same time as […]
These are the musings and artistic adventures of Natalie Parsley!
An experimental out-of-body story blog, taking place over a year of an MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths UoL. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
I’ve just graduated, and for the three years of my degree I assumed that next would be a Fine Art masters, but it isn’t. Next is four exhibitions in a month, next is writing for a new magazine, next is […]
Everyone’s at It (collaboration/participation/socially-engaged practice) so my Summer plan is engaging, exploring, experiencing and expressing – in London. I know it’s something to do with power relationships (to simplify, just for now) so I’ll go along to shows/events thinking about: […]
Can we trully blog about visual issues? I’ll give it a go!
The inner ponderings and struggles possibly met during a residency at a private school.
Bug Cinema is a new ecological forest art commission for the Whale Oil to Whole Foods summer eco-arts festival in Greene County, upper New York State. Bug Cinema will be revealed to the forest as a portable glow-lab UV solar […]
SHOW&TELL blog is a collection of my notes from ZeitgeistArtsProjects talks as well as other talks/conferences/debates/ exhibitions I attend or create! It is a way of giving some insight to those who cannot attend these event & an archiving device […]
the simultaneous amalgamation of opposites to equal one and three.
Neuroscience arts residency project funded by the Wellcome Trust and commissioned by The Arts Catalyst. Setting out on a personal, artistic and scientific journey, processing conversations, observations and experiments through my Asperger’s filters. Working with staff at The Autism Research […]
Re my image ‘New America’; is this what we want? What kind of society do we want to live in? What are our values as artists? What our our ethic’s? In a fearsome age of Austerity, how do hold to […]
I have recently arrived in New Ferry where I am undertaking an artist in residency at the New Ferry Butterfly Park. It is organised by Carol Ramsey who is passionate about the park and made a wonderful job of organising […]
St George’s Arts is an arts organisation based in a redundant church in Esher, Surrey. During 2012 we are running a varied programme including a residency, an open call exhibition, artist’s talks and creative workshops for artists as well as […]
Starting Point feels like a pretty apt title; it calls to mind the hesitancy over the first mark in a new sketchbook. Perhaps i should explain, bar sporadic Ballet classes aged 12, dance and I haven’t had much to do […]
Recounting the adventures of my humble garden shed as she wings her way around the Midlands, playing host and providing shelter for artists, musicians and poets.
I delivered a sensory art project in West Dunbartonshire. I was commissioned by a new group formed called Time To Connect which was set up by parents to provide access and participation to the arts. Their main aim is to […]
My current project explores animal behaviour vs human behaviour, influenced by the story wolf Alice by Angela Carter I am intrigued by societies forced impact on what humans perceive as normal/acceptable behaviour. set in domestic settings to contrast traditional feminine […]
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