I’m a very solitary worker, but I value the contact with other artists, and it’s important to be able to share work with peers – so when I went along to Kent Creative Arts meeting yesterday to talk about my […]
Cold grey drizzle over London but in the British Museum’s El Dorado it was pitch black with case after case of gold artefacts shimmering under their spotlights- and security in every corner. A big exhibition and really immersive given that […]
It takes me time to consider and formalise the words that I place here. Seldom is this a spontaneous process for me… so I’m already pondering the wisdom of New Years resolutions… but I recognise that as sloth, sitting on […]
Self knowledge is a wonderful thing yet knowing something and acting upon it are two VERY different fish. Before Christmas I was running around like a headless chicken – literally running in my own house, frantically trying to get everything […]
A Turner Prize winner and three former nominees make up the selection panel for this year’s open platform aimed at final-year students and recent graduates from UK art schools.
As the Jerwood Open Forest competition moves to its next stage with an exhibition of five proposals opening in London, an additional £30,000 commission prize has been announced thanks to new support from Arts Council England.
This week, representatives from across the fields of labour, sociology, economy, law, and arts administration, come together in New York to write the policy for W.A.G.E. Certification.
Two things: One: Attended the first Songwriters’ Circle last night. Much of it went over my head. I have not had the tiniest bit of a musical education. The technical stuff went over my head by a mile. Dan was […]
We’re getting to the stage when the next issue is ready to go to print. We’re calling this issue ‘The Progression Issue’ and it has 16 pages. Both Sam (Graphic Designer) and myself have had a lot to deal with […]
Thinking/Writing/Thinking/Writing The past three weeks have been all about thinking and writing funding applications for the Manse Project 15. As I am due to have my baby any day now I have been trying to research and contact as many […]
I have a few images from the past week. Painting progress is slowing just now as I have a month until my dissertation is due in! I have chosen a subject close to my interests and so it is nourishing […]
On the 6th and 7th of November 2013, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds staged a conference entitled ‘Imaginary Exhibitions’. Considering my recent thoughts about objects and their relationships to museum contexts, the conference abstract seemed to address some of […]
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=682737681760868&set=a.549192351782069.122521.284381244929849&type=1&theater My most recent painting completed in the studio. In it I have included images from ancient cave paintings as well as archaic symbols. This painting was a excercise in mark making. Following Jackson Pollock, I have used the canvas […]
<CP> Eddie surprised me this week, which is nothing new, except that this was quite a nice surprise for once. He’d secretly booked a day in the darkroom on his own to print some of our negatives, after which I […]
I spent a long weekend away on the borders of Somerset and Wiltshire. It was the opening of the Frome part of the touring Sketch show and I went; partly because I was intrigued to see how the exhibition would […]
I’ve been studying for the last four years: one year doing an Advanced Diploma in the Therapeutic Application of the Arts at IATE in London; followed by three years doing an MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy (also at IATE)… What […]
The Art of Carl Jung Having been off during the Christmas period I was able to catch up on some of the recorded programs I missed in the months of October and November. I’m particularly fond of the Imagine series […]
Preparing for London… As Eleanor and I approach our first scheduled trip of the project – 3 days in London – we ponder how best to approach such a wide spectrum of research possibilities. Stretching over the arts, literature, anatomy, […]
For anyone interested in exploring art and anatomy… You can learn more about the history of art and anatomy at Dream Anatomy Online– a compilation of resources from the National Library of Medicine. Morbid Anatomy Blog is also a vital […]
It’s been quite a while since I updated this blog and a lot has happened since I last wrote. I have been running workshops at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, giving studio talks and performing work developed in China […]
My Fine Art degree project is based predominantly on cave paintings and carvings. I am painting on large canvases, using oil and acrylic paint as well as oil sticks and pastels. The work is spontaneous and bodily movements are important. […]
Arts Council England has set out its agenda for arts investment for 2015-18, and alongside an announcement that the National Portfolio Organisation budget will combine Lottery funding with government grant-in-aid for the first time, ACE also says it is expecting NPOs to pay artists fairly.
For this year’s London Art Fair, Edel Assanti gallery has been invited to guest curate Photo50, focusing on the distinction between the material and the digital. We catch up with co-director Jeremy Epstein to learn more about the aesthetic dialogues they plan to draw out and the huge changes they are witnessing in the medium of photography.
