
The Flaneur – Running an indie art journal
The highs and the even highers of running an independent art and culture paper!
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 […]
Ba (hons) Fine Art
A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CONCERNING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE RELATING TO SEA SURROUNDING SHETLAND. IT SEEKS TO MAKE DIRECT VISUAL ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN OBSERVATIONAL AND EXPERIENTIAL FIELD WORK, NORWEGIAN MATHEMATICIANS AND SCIENTISTS RESEARCH ON EXTREME WAVE THEORY, AND […]
Re-titled Mind, Bodies & Thoughts, this blog’s angle has changed, storing some random thoughts related to ideas I’m working on & other (creative) events.
Together we are four artists working separately in extending our ideas through collaborative projects: this reaches towards a proposed exhibition but also explores the process of making and concocting ideas. Online diary and textual formations act foundations for an exhibition […]
The process is simple. Knit no less than 2 rows of 10 stiches a day for a year. The colours that you chose should reflect your mood. I started doing this on new years eve. Then I thought that it […]
This blog documents my work during a three month residency at Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia. The FAC is a state funded, multi-arts organization hosting exhibitions, residencies, concerts and workshops.
From the drawing board to the opening night, this blog will cover the realisation of my proposal for the market estate project. www.marketestateproject.com
Colour is the secret key to my work and able to create unity and harmony in my work. Convey meaning and mood are used to evoke emotional response. I use my eyes more than my ears because of my deafness. […]
Cerbyd is unique in its’ aim to link artists with specialist community groups across Wales through travel, activity, collaboration and dialogue. The project will enable 10 selected artists to get to know eachother while making creative responses to their country […]