This blog looks at the benefits and pitfalls of working in isolation. One significant aspect of this isolation is a rich and deepening understanding of art history. I’ll explore that relationship to my work, my practice and my efforts to […]
Project Space 11 opened on the 23rd June 2010,is an artist-led initiative situated in the heart of Plymouth City Market. The setting of a traditional indoor market – a microcosm of Plymouth culture and unique in its architecture creates an […]
What it is to be an ’emerging artist’ trying to establish a practice today … and, what is an emerging artist, anyway?
lots to do……lots to do
Rosanne Robertson is part of new art group with fellow Manchester Metropolitan University Fine Art Graduates- Rob Hunt and James Pepper. This blog will map the development of our group practice. “By creating a space in which, what we feel […]
The aim of this blog is to share my experiences of collaboration. Although the majority of my time is spent making my own work, I keep getting drawn back into collaborations… why do I enjoy them? Why are they difficult? […]
An international artist residency at Greatmore Studios in Capetown between September and the end of November 2010.It’s my first residency but not my first visit to Capetown: I lived there as a teenager during the apartheid years before returning to […]
I want to use this blog in some way to make it all better, slightly. I am a realist.
I’m blogging my work on a new installation commission for the National Portrait Gallery, London in collaboration with The Chasing Mirrors collective – young people and families from Arabic speaking communities in Barnet, Brent and Ealing. It’s funded by the […]
A 6 month artistic development project for Escalator performing arts 2010. Developing HE SAID TALENT AGENCY as a practise. With Special consideration to our current project: YOU WILL BE RARE. www.hesaidtalentagency.co.uk/artists/hesaidtalent/…
As a print based artists i find that i’m constantly seeing, thinking, planning and writing. Having graduated in the summer of 2009 I’m starting this blog as a way to develope ideas and express my thoughts outloud and inspire a […]
Dipping my toe in the blogging pool again
This blog will form the basis of my contribution to ‘Lecture Hall. Free School.’ curated by Five Years and Ladies of the Press. It will be translated into a performance, which will be shown on Friday 18th June, 16.00 – […]
Here is a little introduction to myself. I am currently one of the directors at AirSpace Gallery, in Stoke on Trent. I am also a practising artist, when I find the time to make work. I work in a number […]
I have just finished my degree, infact my degree show is still open, yet I already feel, as an emerging artist, like one rain drop in a downpour. This blog is to help me keep conected, give me a little […]
I am a photographer working in Leeds, West Yorkshire. It’s been almost a year since I graduated from my degree, and I haven’t done anything with my photography. Hopefully this blog will help me get motivated and develop my critical […]
For the last year I’ve been engaged with the largest single work I’ve ever made – a free-standing hand-made paper sculpture, 1 metre high and 17 metres long, constructed in the form of a huge concertina book, called Thames to […]
The hoarding – in Kennington, South London – is opposite the Charlie Chaplin Adventure Playground where I was placed during 2009 by the South London Gallery, as artist in residence. Work with the children again, I will be writing texts […]
Documenting the months of postgraduate study (MA Fine Art: Site and Archive course at UCLan). Pulling together two years of research and making for our September show. Aiming to come out the other side with a greater understanding of my […]
I decided to keep a diary of my working on this The School Looks Around – project being run by daisi. I have been appointed lead artist at South Dartmoor Community College in Ashburton. The School Looks Around is a […]
Creative projects are essential to maintaining a sense of purposefulness, excitement and sanity. I start an MA in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths in September 2010. This will be a real challenge with a 2 year old. I want to find […]
APT – Artist Parents Talking is a network of professional artists with main caring responsibilities for their children. This blog documents the process of developing a meeting in Yorkshire, funded by NAN.
I have been working on a piece I call ‘Gestalt’ for a number of years now. First shown Sept 2010 at Durham’s DLI gallery as a three part installation, I am looking to develop it further. I am particularly interested […]
This blog aims to document the thoughts, feelings, journey and outcome i experience during my time as Artist in Residence at Rhosnesni High School in Wrexham, North Wales. The residency runs from 12th April 2010 till 31st March 2011 and […]
The digital making blog was started when I became resident artist at Hethel Engineering Centre in April 2010 with almost weekly posts about conversations, explorations and reflections. It also covers some of the exhibitions / events / conversations that followed […]
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