Currently Reading: Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Phaidon (eds.). 2009. Phaidon, London. This survey of contemporary sculpture conducted in 2009 spotlights 119 prominent cross-generational artists from 27 countries, introduced by Anne Ellegood. The criteria for inclusion to […]
Currently Reading: Vitamin 3-D: new Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Ellegood, Anne. 2009. Phaidon, London. … continued The book itself, it’s worth mentioning, is a huge mid-green tome with a wedge of cover front and back held together with a […]
Land Strategies and theCommons January 6th to February 21st. Harrington Mill Studios residency The aim of this residency is to create a discourse between all the elements of the residency/exhibition space exploring the genius loci and the intersections of space, […]
Week 57: 14th – 20th OctoberI’ve been experimenting with more printmaking techniques to increase the repertoire of styles at my disposal and to see if more experimental processes can help me to generate new content within my work. Collograph workshopI’d […]
In a previous blog post I mentioned two areas of my work which were just beginning to unfold. The AA2A project, http://aa2a.biz/pg/profile/southampton based at Solent University took off to a slow start due to previous commitments and school holidays which […]
what do i want ? a question i circularly bounce off of. it’s been the question that i’ve been wrestling with in respect to what i propose for the first application. from a session this morning i’ve been able to […]
I stopped writing this blog some six months ago with the intention of freeing up some time for a big ‘sort out’ in my studio. Up until this point, I’d been having conversations with other artists about the importance of […]
Land Strategies 06.01.2014 to 21.02.2014 residency. My project is about constant disturbance through the dislocation of site by the artist in relation to place. It straddles the border between art and research and consists of the development of thoughts and […]
Richard Pare, 'Unite d?habitation, Marseilles, 1946-52. View of the terrace roof, the pool and the sea', 2011. Courtesy: Richard Pare.
Richard woods, 'New Growth No.3'. Photo: Owen Bryant.
Antony Gormley, Susan Philipsz, Jonathan Harvey and David Panton are amongst the artists and arts professionals recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2014.
For the first instalment of our Pictured series for 2014, Tim Clark picks up the weighty monograph from legendary Swedish photographer, Anders Petersen, and is blown away by its raw photographs that are brimming with kindness and fury, beauty and abjection.
THE SERPENTINE, LONDON
29 November 2013 – 9 February 2014
Post 5. Custodian R not had much luck getting up to Ballaskella so far. Weather too bad. Will try to get up there in the morning…
Mythological Fact Developing the ‘Manse’ character I want to get a balance of creative interpretation with historical fact. I have been looking at two different characters from very different times, firstly Lady Godiva, 980 AD and Pandemonia, 2008. I was […]
2014 is up and running and my new canvas optimisim is with me. i’m excited. i’m reconnecting to having fun. i’m reconnecting with my transformed self. a new year, a new blog. a new optimism. a new sense of space […]
an accompaniment and documentation of my attempt to make 12 applications to artistic opportunities in 2014. this idea was born out of becoming aware that i’d let my portfolio slip into disrepair and seeing three opportunities that appealed to me […]
Sandra Bouguerch, 'Push and Pull', Photography.