Passport – check ✅ Tickets – check ✅ Sanity – still checking… I leave tomorrow for Silicon Valley! I am excited and nervous in equal measure: previous lockdowns and world events have conspired to make me more cautious than usual […]
180 artists and freelancers working in the visual arts have been awarded a share of £246,882.
Highlighting work by a-n members including Katie Paterson and Ryan Gander’s glass commissions in Sunderland, plus drawing in Dundee.
Recent work produced for the upcoming Back of an Envelope Show, helps me to evaluate my work process.
It struck me the other day that I currently share a certain characteristic with vampires – I have no reflection. ’That’s silly and a really bad pun’ I told myself almost immediately that the thought crossed my mind. But the […]
There’s been a gap. A drawing gap, that is. Well, not completely. I went away and before going had to finish 3 articles, so my drawing practice, sadly had to be put aside. It hurts when I have to do […]
I really like using unfired clay in my work, I’ve been exploring more of the process of drawing with clay. Using a knife to cut through the clay and leaving the markings on the canvas, knowing that when I peel […]
A recent painting capturing visible and invisible light. Exhibited at The Museum of Lincolnshire Life, LN1 3LY, until the end of August 2022.
Joint exhibition with Helen Field at Bowery Visual Arts
Review of Hockney’s Eye – The Art and Technology of Depiction
Fruitful conversations and online research have lead to quite the reading list! I’ve begun “Museums in the Climate Emergency” by Steve Lyons and Kai Bosworth and by the time I finish that I believe I’ll have myself an argument or […]
Public Art & interpretation project
We have all felt constrained and ‘boxed in’ over the last two years. Those people having to shield because of health vulnerabilities have hardly left their ‘boxes’, but all of us have felt confined and restricted. From time to time, […]
After producing a range of sketches and many exploratory prints (linocuts, wood cuts, collagraphs and dry points) my final piece is a ‘Wall of Masked Emotions’ This is an entire wall (in a friend’s studio) covered with a series of […]
As the Professional Practice module is all about how we promote ourselves as artists and preparing ourselves for life outside of university, I have decided to focus this blog on remaking my “art” instagram account. The screenshot above shows how […]
We’re looking for artists with a diverse range of experience to join our Artists Council, an advisory group to the Board and Executive of a-n.
Hi I am about to start workshops in my garden art studio including lino cutting and etching. Does anyone have a DISCLAIMER template/proforma ? Whilst I will go through all the H&S at the start, I do not want to […]
