Bristol-based contemporary art organisation Spike Island has appointed Turner Contemporary’s Lhosa Daly as its new Deputy Director, while Alice Motard joins as Curator.
Post 6. Custodian M So there we have it. The good old UK weather has ended any lingering hope of The Grid being located any time soon. A couple of recent correspondences from Custodian R. ‘Leaving tomorrow now. Constantly thwarted […]
Open – what does that mean? No selection, no editing, no curating….. It’s a new year……a quote thats been swirling round the seas of my psyche….”If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” […]
No Funding Here’s a post I wrote a couple of months ago but must I must have failed to click the final ‘post’ button as I reliased it hadn’t gone live. If you’ve read some of my earlier posts then […]
Onwards I have been neglecting this blog since my bursary period ended, although my plan is to continue writing on here in some form. In the meantime I have been doing a little bit of reflection about the bursary and […]
The collage abuse series now has two large-scale collages fully completed to add to the several small exploratory pieces already made. Both sizes of work feel strong but the larger pieces offer the space to achieve an intensity and variation […]
Day 2, a few struggles with materials today but it turned out alright in the end. Got there at 7.20 to film yesterday’s work thinking it would be quiet but lower floor workers arrived at 7.25am. Think it is time […]
Nan’s Curtains The curtains are tiny, only 11cms wide. 18 sets of doll’s house curtains that crucially will not reside in a doll’s house. And thinking about scale, it reminds me that we are big, even outsized in comparison and […]
Happy New Year! The beginning of 2014 and I am itching to get going. My next pieces are going to involve working on top of old paintings – or – using old paintings that I can’t quite work over yet […]
A lot of the work in Home Truths seems more conventional than we’d expected. Judith expressed it something like this: many works use the familiar trope of connecting childhood with the mother’s body. Many of the photos, Elinor Carucci’s for […]
The day after the visit to The Photographers’ Gallery our eldest said ‘Art’s just chatting.’ We asked her to repeat this so that we could jot it down. ‘Art’s just about conversations. When we were in Denmark you talked to […]
Blue Bayou I have decided to redo my painting Blue Bayou. Initially I produced this as a pure painting (and by this I mean just paint), but I was not entirely satisfied with the result. So instead, I am reverting […]
Happy new year! I actually made it to the studio on Monday. It was not too cold, the doors had swollen with all the rain we have had and I couldn’t get them closed at the end of the day […]
BA Hon Painting
A campaign to stop the Derry-Londonderry venue that hosted the 2013 Turner Prize being turned into new offices is hotting up, with a 400-strong demonstration in the city and a petition demanding a rethink.
At a-n, we know that small awards to artists specifically for self-determined professional development make a big difference. That’s why we’re extending the artists’ bursary programme in 2014.
For the first Now Showing of 2014, our exhibition selections range from JMW Turner at the Scottish National Gallery to David Tremlett at the Ikon in Birmingham.
Following on from my busy year working on the ‘Hidden Landscapes Project’ and adjusting to the new demands of motherhood, I’m still trying to fathom how it’s all going to pan out. My work continues to focus on the town […]
This is my diary about my final year at UCS studying Fine Art
In this blog I am examining the way society is still patriarchal. How do I explore this visually? What images can capture this? How do I cohesively portray this? Can I do this powerfully and aesthetically? How do I avoid […]
Post Script From Chloe Mandy: In Residence December 2013 I realised after four weeks, there is never an epiphany of self realisation when working, simply a series of moments that sometimes follow each other other some times merge and sometimes […]
Currently watching: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010) dir Sophie Fiennes. “OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer’s alchemical creative processes and renders as a film journey the personal universe he has built […]
