From two-channel video work at the Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, Sunderland, to an installation comprising sculpture and painting in a small gallery near Glasgow, this week’ selection is eclectic and intriguing.
A House of Commons Select Committee has opened an inquiry into the work of Arts Council England and its regional funding policies.
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave wins Best Film award at the Golden Globes.
BA (Hons) Fine Art
One of the artists that has captured my attention is Linder Sterling, her work consists of photo montages. Sterling’s montages are formed by taking images from the magazines around her, she started looking at how male and female magazines where […]
WE ARE ALIVE AGAIN I’m rephotographing Nana’s photos. I’ve had them long enough – since she passed away 18 months ago. Now it’s time for the photos to back to their subjects, their owners, family members. In each I look […]
Proof-reading the entries for the Supermarket Art Fair catalogue is a good reminder of the range of activities that artists undertake – it is far too easy for me to become fastened in my own routines and habits. Reading an […]
Just another day! The gallery is beginning to like something is happening. The slow process of building an installation in response to the space and its environs takes place not just when you are there but when you aren’t there. […]
My oldest friend left to go to live in Spain tonight. We’ve done 40 years time together and he’s my go-to person when my world falls in. When I found out that he was moving I confess to tears and […]
Moving on….. I’ve made the decision to not exhibit in the gallery mentioned in my last post. I felt hugely guilty about pulling out, which is silly because it wasn’t me who broke the contract, but I didn’t want to […]
Mass Media has changed the way we think, the way we view the world and especially the way we view others. Mass Media brought us Advertising, Film and Magazines, which brutally enforce a prescribed standard attitude and appearance for women. […]
The portrayal of women within the media show no clue to the models/ actresses personality or identity, leaving women often to be seen as passive, which exudes a sense of vulnerability. This vulnerability presents women having no agency, allowing them […]
The Sporting League: Game 8 Results. Athletico got their eighth win in a row courtesy to some poor defending by the Zindustrious back four. Athletico boss: ‘We’re an evolving project. It’s great to see some players that struggled for form […]
Inspired by another artist, I’ve decided to make a list of the goals I have for art related work this year. I particularly want to improve my CV by working on a range of different art related projects, such as […]
8th November 2013. After all the hard work of hanging the exhibition at Deda it was a relief when the P.V came around. Considering it was a wet and windy night the launch was a great success. It was much […]
I was proud to be selected as one of the artists in an exhibition called Web of Water. It’s in connection with Artcore and is curated by Saira Lloyd and Tracey Kershaw. The brief was that we could respond to […]
Yesterday, I watched the film Eden, staring Jamie Chung and directed by Megan Griffiths, about the abduction and sale into sex slavery of a young girl in the USA. A key area of my practice research considers how we live […]
Nan’s Curtains One finished pair of minature curtains. This photo shows them balanced on a hook but they will have their own attachments similar to the real thing. Thinking ahead to finishing all 18 sets of curtains and then figuring […]
Dark space has a special quality to it, velvety and warm. Beginning my first collaboration, we used this quality to experiment with sound using materials that were lying around. Underpinned by someone’s clock ticking, by the buzz of the fridge […]
Well. Feeling very brave, I sat at the computer, and booked my flights. A traumatic, stressful, infuriating experience that took about two hours. But it is done. I now have paid tickets that will take me from my beloved Birmingham […]
How much mosaic do you do in one day? I am working on the fifth one of seven. I really pushed hard on the 4th over the xmas period as momentum had slowed down. I took a photo this morning […]
Beginning to engage with the space, creating an ongoing dialogue rather than just putting or building separate pieces of work in it. This is an important step forward and contributes also to my research into the nature of exhibition space […]
A happy and prosperous New Year to you all. Now that the formalities are out of the way I would like to swiftly introduce you to fourteen things I wish to do in order to develop my career in 2014: […]
