a record of another trip through Highlands, Lowlands, the Taklamakan and jungles, maybe even a transformation from unsure to certain. I think of myself as a wanderer and I am slowly understanding that this is not to be uncertain about […]
Artist Larna Campbell is excited to be ESA’s first artist-in-residence at Union 105, the new artspace at 105 Chapeltown Road. Larna will make public interventions around Chapeltown that come out of a process of dialogue and interaction. Larna is interested […]
Dialogue is imperative to my practice, I cannot make artwork alone in my studio like the archetypal image of the Artist. I make art that comes out of conversations and interactions with communities. I now realise that structured critical and […]
I am drawn to displaced objects commonly found & have lost their function.
99 Paintings from a personal archive of photos. With accompanying blog! www.rylandart.com
Lives lost are commemorated by knitting leaf shapes in different sizes, using a basic pattern in combinations of quality yarns, colours and textures. Many of the yarns are expensive materials such as silk, cashmere, pure merino wool etc., to represent […]
Gentler Passion presents a sound installation exploring hand-made sheds that Pigeon Fanciers build for their birds. The project is generously supported by the Scottish Sculpture Workshop’s Winter Residency 2013 program. This blog will focus on the construction and fabrication of […]
Thought I would start a separate blog about the trials and tribulations of my residency at the Butterfly Park. The next 18 months are sure to have highs and lows, maybe even some tears and tantrums but will hopefully prove […]
The highs and the even highers of running an independent art and culture paper!
Michelangelo and Einstein shared this divine faith for a monumental being who immortalises the force for nature , how could one record and reflect upon this eternal mind or force. Recording observation using the thought experiments of Newton, Galileli Galileo […]
This blog has been formed to provide information and reviews about Blank Media Collective, our events and the services that we can offer emerging practitioners.
Fundada Artists’ Film Festival is a showcase of international contemporary screen-based art. Fundada believes that art should be fun and inclusive, conceptually strong and critically engaged. Curated by artists Alice Bradshaw and Nancy Porter. http://fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com/
Helen Scalway is an artist who works using drawing to investigate pattern and place. She has just completed a residency project with the V&A and Royal Holloway, London University. In 2007 and 2008 she held residencies at The Drawing Centre, […]
I have been commissioned to work with the community of Voe to create a permanent piece of artwork for their school playground. This is a collaborative commission organised jointly by Creative Links and Olnafirth Primary School, both part of Shetland […]
In this blog I reflect on my ongoing artistic practice, primarily painting and drawing.
for the bees is a participatory project led by Owen Griffiths and Fern Thomas which stems from a concern about the threat to bees. Working with a musician we will compose a song for community choirs to sing to bee […]
This project brings together four diverse collections covering the history of Runcorn and Widnes on the River Mersey held separately in Catalyst Chemical Museum, Runcorn Town Hall, Halton’s Libraries and Norton Priory Museum. The collections are being catalogued in a […]
This blog follows the reaction to a fire in the building where Green Door Studios was located. The building on Highgate in Kendal, Cumbria had been the studio premises for the artists’ collective since it was established in 1995.
Public Facilities is a sign-posting project which will hopefully divert some traffic into some of the “semi-public” places in society. The project will be launched on Wednesday 3rd of March with a public intervention in Temple Bar, Dublin, where participants […]
Growing up in Newcastle, most journeys began with the Tyne and conversely, the river represented coming home. For 12 years in Manchester, a city of railways and canals, the culverted and brick-bound Medlock, has been the only river I’ve seen. […]
Art Allotments is our collage exchange project where we regularly send each other envelopes containing our rejected art work of drawings, roughs, prints & abandoned ideas together with interesting emphera and text. One extra condition that we made for ourselves […]
Given the increasing numbers of academically qualified artists, some educated even to PhD level (there now exist Doctors of Art), I have wondered, for a number of years, about the concept of an Art Surgery modelled around the idea of […]
A blog telling of the stresses of the last semester of my glass degree at The University of Wolverhampton!
Landscape/Portrait (www.landscape-portrait.com) is a collaboration between artist Kevin Carter, artists, communities from around the UK.The project presents self-portraits of real people across England and Scotland and compares them with the demographic portraits that exist based on official statistics for their […]
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