My parcel of paper flowers arrived in Jamestown yesterday, which is pretty amazing considering the Post Office said it would take more than 8 weeks ( it took 13 days) Feel a lot more relaxed about the installation now, but […]
Eliot North presents poems from London visit, 27-29 January 2014 Extraordinary writing from Eliot North! The Evelyn Tables Dead bodies splayed, dissect to instruct. Engrained into knots; Italian pine. Spinal cord draped, melted branches. Soft varnished hard; invisible ink. Arteries […]
The Gremlins inside This piece is called ‘The Coward’. It is a relatively large painting (85cm x 120cm) and originated from a photograph of an organic object which I have digitally manipulated and then combined with oil paint. Originally I […]
Week 66: 16th – 22nd DecemberMy return to a focus on material was timely, as this week was the first in a series of Leverhulme institutes by visiting professor Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, which was all about matter. Professor Christov-Bakargiev was named […]
Wobudong – an exhibition of writing without meaning (http://w0budong.wordpress.com/) I am working on this project – gestural writing on pebbles. I wrote in watercolour on a stone in Newlyn, Cornwall, where the tide would come in and wash it off. […]
i spoke last year with an artist who at the time claimed he never fully finished any of his works. i’ve wondered if this was a good thing or a bad thing. while we chatted my gut feeling was that […]
Painting Sierra My painting seems as though it is progressing well, although building facial values from abstract colours is more difficult than I anticipated. In theory when painting something in an abstract style implies that the colours used would be […]
I was starting to feel a bit guilty about not having posted since the birthday party. The last two and a half weeks have been (over) full and (over) exhausting. There is still a lot to do and February will […]
Currently Reading: Mark Dion, 1997, Phaidon, London. Survey by Lisa Graziose Corrin, Interview by Miwon Kwon, Focus by Norman Bryson, Artist’s Choice text by John Berger, Writings by Mark Dion. Overview Mark Dion (b.1961) is an American artist who takes […]
Currently Reading: Mark Dion, 1997, Phaidon, London. ..continued He criticises the museum as conceiving the audience as childlike and passive, simplifying questions and giving reductive answers. Rather, the museum should provoke questions not spoonfeed answers. Dion wants the museum to […]
In my dissertation I was exploring the roles of control and chance in the process of painting. I always thought that chance was very prominent in my work, in the way I let ink/paint run and mix together, letting the […]
A quick post before I head on off to bed… or I am never going to get round to posting anything. I wrote in an earlier post, ‘if I’m not writing then I’m probably not working’ but for now that […]
After my crit review of my work Robin gave me a few new artists to study to help progress my own work. One of whom was Callum Innes. Having never heard of him or seen his work before it was […]
Hi my name is Abigail Victoria Graham and welcome to my blog. AVG, obviously are my initials and Pinky, well… i just love pink. I am currently in my final year of my degree in Fine Art at UCS. This […]
A skeletal, riderless horse and a 10-metre-high thumbs up are confirmed as the latest works to take their place on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.
20 free delegate passes, specifically for emerging independent artists, have been made available to February’s No Boundaries symposium on the role of culture in 21st century society. But applicants need to be quick – the deadline is 5pm on Tuesday 11 February.
This week’s selection of must-see shows ranges from a major Sarah Lucas retrospective at Tramway, Glasgow to Bettina Buck and Marie Lund’s site-specific interventions at Spacex, Exeter.
Plenty Brook Plenty Brook is the stream that comes down from the woods down to the sea, through the Golf Course. I call it the ‘Brook of Plenty’. I has a history of flooding the town here. So it is […]
BLACK HOLES After talking to Francis McKee in November, I reckon I encountered a black hole. Not because of our discussion, far from it. But because I needed time to mull over our discussion. Good news from Stephen Hawking is […]
From doing some research in a lecture on Friday morning I have been inspired to rethink my approach to this blog. Reading others has led me to make a more professional approach to my writing styles as finishing my dissertation […]
My second visit to Barton Moss frack off camp, Thursday 6th February 2014 This time I took my camera, I wanted to visualize how I saw it, the people and the things that had some impact on me. What I […]
So far I have found a mountain of information and a mountain of views and this subject is a huge conversation. But what troubles me is that not many people are having this conversation. It seems that there are many […]
Spectrums I was searching for an image to explain spectrums and I found this great blog science defined. Within the site I found a great image which I used in my a-n blog, however I started to read the blog […]
Robert Rauchenberg. This artist has been a constant influence to me. He has inspired me to work with different colours and materials. The unique compostition of his work and everchanging shapse and colours are something of dreams.
