A new report urges those working with arts and culture to rethink their contribution to a vision of sustainable development that benefits the whole of society. Report co-author, Mark Robinson, introduces the provocation and identifies three vital ‘practices’ that can only be achieved by collaboration between artists, institutions and an intelligent funding ecology.
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
11 February – 15 March 2014
Two years on today..Letter to my Mother (Diary extract Boxing Day, 2006) Boxing Day – the second anniversary of your death. We all met (the Iranian side of the family and Sue, one of your favourite friends of mine) at […]
This is so much fun! Now the collaborations are starting to come together and link with the work that I am doing in the space. The space is becoming public/private with the addition of netting, that was begun as part […]
INFLUENCES My works of the last months have started to take a more precise shape and have boomed in colour and form. I have realised that from working in all these diverse mediums making a banana out of fibreglass, a […]
The Cedric Ford Art Exhibition opened this week at Nottingham University’s Jubilee Campus. The prize was won by Helen Hamblin. Her beautiful work Untitled consists of two very sensitive graphite drawings. Seeing the show I decided that I’m lucky to […]
Unable to do anything but watch and condemn, I focus my attention on making work that can only comment in dismay: one piece of work each month if possible. January – photomontage: ‘Yesterday,Today,Tomorrow’ currently part of exhibition at the Beaney […]
Who’s in Charge? I have learnt that working with scientists is unpredictable – I like this – it’s what we research together that stimulates my curiosity, sustains my wonder at the world and therefore acts as inspiration for my art […]
GOING OUT One of our Blue Monkey New Year Resolutions is to get out more, meet new people, make new friends and see more art! This week, one of our members, Sharon Haward, has been spending the week at Fabrica, […]
PAINTING ‘THE FOREST’ My painting is influenced by art history, native folklore, oriental patterns, embroideries, tattoos, Indian abstraction, pre-Columbian tribal, Japanese inks, neo-expressionism, abstract figuration, monumental scale, flowers, design, street art. The works display an uncanny effect, where the familiar […]
My day started with my laptop resting on the bed covers as I caught up with the overnight postings. My heart sunk as I read an account on facebook by an artist having 3 different jobs (in the arts) and […]
Painting Sierra (2) My painting is finally starting to progress. I’ve completely re painted the main planes of the face and have begun to build up the tonal values around the main contours. In addition, I have blocked in the […]
This week I have been trying to get out of my comfort zone – Realising what paint can do and enjoying the experimentation and interaction of my process. I have had an image on my phone, I have been wanting […]
Since my last post I have been responding to the image of my stretched open mouth further. I recreated the image and completed this study from a mirror using acrylic and ink. I slapped ink on to the paper, I […]
A is also for Accident and Associations. Thanks to Facebook, I was directed to Amy Tan’s TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_tan_on_creativity.html, in which, she talked, among other things about accidents, synchronicity, random chance and how greater awareness of the universe and artists’ […]
Construction Project Day #6 Do you remember the work I made for ‘On Brown & Violet Grounds’ at Piccadilly Place, Manchester last September called ‘Dispersion of White‘? On Day 6 I revisited this particular piece and attempted to expand on […]
My intentions at the beginning of starting my final project were to create large melded images of my flesh – this was to identify a relationship with my subject in the hope of strengthening my paints language. Since starting my […]
whilst still experimenting with print. I have also looked at symbols and what they mean. In some of my Images I have put my character Pope Joan within a circle. The circle has many meanings but I like to think […]
Thursday Blog 5 HALF TERM! ooooo its half term how much work do you think i have been doing today? weli have been inside a wind turbine windmill. who can say they have done that? i have also been to […]
Mark Rothko, The power of art. Simon Schama said Rothko thought he could change the world… that art had the power to help people to recover their humanity. “It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives […]
Transitions continuing.. Images, ideas and aspects of art I am currently working on towards a more reflective approach to looking at art… Philosopher Alain de Botton describes Art as therapy…he describes how “Art can save your soul.” Botton says in […]
Today is an Elliot Smith Day. Some days are. Perfect music to work with… I can tune in and out of it. Some of it washes gently over me, barely making a ripple on my consciousness, my brain carries on […]
