Is there such a thing as artist’s block, like the thing you hear that writers suffer from, only for artists? Even when I was at college, I would have months when I just couldn’t seem to make any work, to […]
BA (Hons) Fine Arts
BA (Hons) Fine Arts – Sculpture and Painting
I’m horrified by the persistence of violent conflict involving civilians all over the world. Ours is such a small world, and it is being destroyed. Towns and cities reduced to rubble in Syria, middle-class civilians in Kiev making ‘napalm’ bombs, […]
Duncan of Jordanstone graduates Calum and Fraser Brownlee have been awarded the inaugural Fleming-Wyfold Bursary, worth £14,000, at the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition for art and architecture graduates in Scotland.
Bristol-based artist Katie Davies, whose video works explore ‘the politics of spectatorship’, has been awarded the joint Berwick Visual Arts and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival residency.
The plaster casts of my shadow form are still not as interesting as I thought they would be! This is quite hard to admit after having spent so much of my time at Mejan producing the mould – I wonder […]
Original idea 15th January 15.21 Looking around the studio at university most of the Art that I see is painting on canvas. Is this what is expected of an Art student who does a Fine Art course? I was thinking […]
While Studying Media I developed a key interest in the portrayal of women in film, I analysed every inch of a characters representation. (Including Mise-en-scene, Attitude, Clothing, and Appearance) One the most Iconic sex symbols is Marilyn Monroe. The re-occurring […]
I thought I would carry on with a part 2 from my previous post describing mosaic making. I’d stopped at the point where everything is in place and things start getting good and where some kind of gratification starts coming […]
Today was a day that I shared my art publicly in a very revealing way for me. I felt very vulnerable and exposed, but, the people that I gave it too, took it with such love and gratitude that my […]
Here are some more images of Alessandro’s piece titled Parcel, this time in the various locations mentioned in the previous post, emphasisng the concept of waiting.
Construction Project Day #5 Moving away from circular bulbs for the day and instead I concentrated on strip lights. My natural inclination was to hang them from the ceiling in different configurations in order to find out and test which […]
Lindsay Connors: Progressing the idea of indirect markmaking we have been experimenting with a series of photograms, inspired by the images, objects and marks that we identified in the works from Ros and Niki. Here are the results of a […]
day 2 – part 2: A quiet afternoon didn’t lead to much but I began to get a sense of the subleties of the space. Enjoyed an engaging converstaion with Liz Whitehead, co-director of Fabrica, weighing up the difficulties and […]
day 3: All vey quiet and made some headway into finding ways of breaking up the building (mainly at 3am !). Am looking back at when I cut into a building to disrupt the space and so am thinking of […]
Hannah Höch – Whitechapel Gallery I have never been particularly interested in politics or economics which is maybe why I find it difficult to contemplate Höch’s work within this context. What is much more intriguing from my point of view […]
‘Sink painting’ A small experimental painting, spending most of its time in the sink. I mix up some paint with water pour it over the canvas (when it is in the sink), then I run the tap over it and […]
The artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman died on 19 February 1994. To mark 20 years since his death from an AIDS-related illness, a series of events and screenings are happening throughout the year, including two recently opened exhibitions in London. We talk to the shows’ curators and explore the riches on display.
AIR Council welcomes three new artist members to its ranks as the a-n/AIR Paying Artists Campaign gathers momentum.
Provocation urging all those working with arts and culture to rethink their contribution to a vision of sustainable development that benefits the whole of society.
