Niki Campbell: We are delighted to announce the artists joining us in our collaboration are : Dawn Adams, Ros Barker, Alison Berry, Jo Brown, Val Bolsover, Karen Gardner, Sonia Griffin, Katie Hayward, Ruth Payne. We are looking forward to our […]
•Paul Bahn (1998) argues that the aesthetic urge in man is not some recent refinement of civilization, but part of an ancient deep seated need of our species. Bahn, P, G. (1998) The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art. Cambridge: […]
Long after the day has gone, there is light. It has been a tough week for the residency but, hopefully, I am in a new phase. Am also managing some studio practice as well. The determination that the residency should […]
Art generally forces the viewer to view things differently and think openly about things/subjects differently. Even if the artwork is just for aesthetic pleasure, that looks nice hanging on the wall in the living room, it still started with an […]
Well, you have surprised me! Not only no. 1, but leading by a country-mile! Not bad for someone who may run out of steps before she gets to the garden. Thank you. Can’t quite wrap my head around the score. […]
Today I finished the 137 rubbish drawings for my newspaper. Each of the artists’ works featured on my rubbish blog http://contemporaryrubbish.wordpress.com has been sorted into 2 piles: Thesis Pile and Newspaper Pile. Thesis Pile are works which I can relate […]
So far I’ve been contextualising my interests in cultural traditions and the artwork that I’m producing in relation to the historical and contemporary art production. However, it is also necessary for me to understand how this relates to theories developed […]
I feel a little on the edge again… At a sort of leaping off point. I should read back over some of this blog, because I’m sure I’ve written about this before. A couple of posts back I wrote of […]
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport publishes new figures showing that the UK’s creative industries are bucking the economic trend.
Christopher Paul Daniels, Mat Fleming and Dennis Isou receive digital and moving image residency awards for pilot research and development programme.
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave follows BAFTA nominations and Golden Globes success with nine Oscar nominations.
For the latest instalment in our series, Tim Clark considers the carefully fabricated world of Robert Zhao Renhui, whose pairings of photographs and text blur fact and fiction to address our lack of regard for the natural environment.
I think that my last piece of art work needs some varnished areas. I also think that it would have benefited from some colour and texture in the preparation of the canvas. I have just started my next piece of […]
FOLLY STONES EXPERT 2 its thursday and true to my word i am working on the Furiously mad project. thinking thinking thinking. ive been trying to write a document that will be part of my piece that will not only […]
Vanessa Beecroft’s live performances feature a mass of women, which she calls her ‘army’. The women are almost identical in appearance and body shape, Familiar to the women who appear in every fashion and beauty magazine. Women within the fashion […]
Vision in White The first ‘vision in white’, floating in a dark pool, was originally to be Goatfell; as it would have appeared in the last Ice Age, a jagged granite apex piercing a sea of snow. Then came the […]
nan’s curtains An interesting comment posted from Marion Michell has got me ruminating about minature scale. Because the curtains are tiny, it’s as if they are in the distance. And it made me think of a Father Ted sketch. http://youtu.be/vh5kZ4uIUC0 […]
I am loving this residency more and more!!! Not only are the official mentoring sessions brilliant and very informative but casual chats and impromptu crits are inspiring and helping me so much in terms of encouragement confidence and making me […]
Why oh why do they make funding applications so complicated? I should know what to say by now as it isn’t the first one I’ve done, but there’s always that struggle to fill each box with the maximum required words. […]
Snow Falling in an Empty House: Diary extract from 22.3.2005 ‘Dear Delia, Today we drove (you, I, your dad, our friend Brianne who has come from France to be with us) to Papa Jaaan (my mothers) house for the first […]
I want…pomegranates and rosewater Journal extract from 4.10.2007 ‘ It’s autumn now…and I am almost fully pregnant with my second child…we planted a pomegranate tree in the front garden, it was like planting my mother as i have such strong associations […]
I’m pleased to be starting an artists’ residency with In Certain Places from 2014. My recent work has considered ideas around contemporary work-life, and radical opposition/alternatives to it – and I’ll be continuing to look at the way it shapes […]
Hotel Elephant’s recent move from the Heygate Estate to Newington Causeway in South London sees the launch of its first shop and café, along with studios, a gallery and projection room within 15,000 square feet of warehouse space.
