I never knew at the time how useful learning French would be. It was of course very useful to be able to speak it in Luxembourg, where I lived for 15 years, and eventually ended up translating French for banks […]
The aim of our collaboration with Judith Stewart is to conceive an intellectual context for the work we’ve been making. We are committed to developing domestic and employment routines which allow parenting and artwork to co-exist without one of these […]
I have decided to leave the making of hundreds of art-cut-from-newspaper cups, mostly because my motivation for doing that was to create an immersive piece of art. I was getting carried away with the process, rather than making sure what […]
The next image is small – A3 – and on paper. I find working much larger gives me more freedom and room to manoeuvre. A small piece doesn’t get space to develop.
I have when found painting and seeing what develops out of my gestures that I often come back to the gesture of writing in one way or another. In this painting it is particularly prominent.
Watching The Teenagers from Next Door (2013)
The Absent Other. ‘Objects, particularly those that are part of everyday, material culture, are things we carry with us, and it is in this sense that they take on the cultural markers of memory and of time as well as […]
Second phase of a-n/AIR-commissioned research, exploring artists’ and venues’ experiences of exhibiting in publicly-funded venues. Phase 2 findings build on data from Phase 1 and are based on interviews conducted with artists and venues.
The V&A has announced Turkish fashion label Dice Kayek, established in by sisters Ece and Ayşe Ege, as the winner of the international prize for contemporary artists and designers inspired by Islamic tradition.
From the Turner Prize to the recent Lumiere festival, the visual arts has played an important role in Derry-Londonderry’s 12 months as the first UK City of Culture. But as the year draws to a close, what will its legacy be for art and artists in the city?
Second phase of research study commissioned by a-n and AIR looking at artists experiences of exhibiting in publicly-funded venues. Overview of main findings from interviews with artists and publicly-funded venues that deepens understanding of data Phase 1 findings and explores perceptions and issues from both sides of the experience.
The residency is finished, the exhibition has come down but you can see images of some of the pieces here: www.stephaniesmart.net
I started to do a Google search each time I come up with an idea, right at the beginning of the process (in my case) of putting together ideas for a painting. This has stopped a number of projects going […]
What is so pleasing about the neat, repetitive content of books that make neat, repetitive lines on shelves in neat, repetitive floors of a library? Part of the answer lies in the comfort of order: there’s a sense of reassurance […]
Burnt Offerings / The New Black Sleek black glistening fragments lie scattered at the lip of the ranger’s charcoal burner, I had tagged along with a ‘party’ cleaning and re-jigging the flues during my first visit on Arran. In amongst […]
Couldn’t sleep. Thought I’d go down to the studio and watch the sunrise over the Danube. Instead I ended up downloading Sketchup, sort of learning how to use it, making a 3D model of some lines and sending it off […]
Post 3 By Custodian M. I’ve been grafting full-time so find it harder to make stuff. We could probaby do with less stuff in the world anyway, hence my blogs now make up the bulk of my practice. I went […]
Apart from the obvious bits of new technology being used, have artists come up with anything radically new since Dada? Artists seem to need the reassurance that their work is innovative, and that their ideas are unique and new. Are […]
CATCHING UP Long time, no blog! Since my last post we’ve welcomed some lovely guests to Eastbourne to talk at our events, including Sheila MacGregor and Ruth Wilbur from Axisweb* who ran a couple of workshops and offered 1-2-1 sessions […]
RESAUCE MANAGEMENT REPORT for ADUK: Locally Sourced World Cafe: Recipes for Change in the Arts. HYGIENE AND SAFETY: all equipment worn by food preparation operatives √ TROLLEY MANAGEMENT: successfully facilitated √ FOOD PRODUCTIOON: unique and memorable SAUCES produced √ QUALITY […]
“Imagine the life of a sceptic who doubted the accuracy of the telephone book, or, when he received a letter, considered seriously the possibility that the black marks might have been made accidentally by an inky fly crawling over the […]
Two scraps from magazines. The small one I found on the floor of the studio when I arrived. I’d been kicking it around for a few days meaning to throw it away. The shape cut out of it corresponds to […]
Please help transform the atmosphere of this medical facilities by humanising the environment from cold & sterile to warm & welcoming. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/senezio/public… Background: In the past five years, I have been working on a number of public art projects. In […]
