Now Showing: This month’s must-see exhibitions
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows.
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows.
It’s been a while since I last posted anything here. Life, with all its complications, has got in the way. Some life issues remain deeply personal – too difficult, too painful, perhaps, to share – or simply, I make a […]
Led by Navigator North
Wednesday 3 November, 9.45am – 4pm
Online via Zoom
Navigator North, an artist led visual arts organisation based in Middlesbrough will be logging online to lead a-n’s second digital Assembly of 2021.
Inspired by Middlesbrough Winter Garden, an initiative founded in 1907 which aimed to offer access to culture, health and wellbeing to the people of the town, Navigator North will host a day of conversations and activities that explore the what, how and who of building a creative community.
This event is for a-n members. Please log in to register for this event.
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Navigator North is a member of the Guild 2019-2023 cohort. a-n Assembly 2021 is developed in partnership with Guild, East Street Arts’ sector support programme supporting and empowering artists to help them create more resilient and sustainable work via artists’ spaces.
Flowers are falling, raining their fragrance-filled essence onto all who pass. Will they be filled with the magic sparkle of these frolicking pearls of passion? Frolicking Pearls of Passion (mixed media painting on canvas, 50x50cm)
Feeling blue? Park your bike, and come on through my door to be uplifted into another world of petalled optimism. Petalled Optimism (mixed media painting on canvas, 50x50cm)
Project Art Works is one of five artist collectives shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize. Sonia Boué speaks to artist and Project Art Works founder Kate Adams about the history of the collective and how relevant the Turner Prize nomination is to its artists.
Earlier this month, I was paid to participate in an online discussion about arts and mental health, organised by the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance. It was a really positive event, and payment for my expertise has now appeared in […]
Moving the two large work-tables from the studio in Enköping to the one in Uppsala last Friday felt definitive. Up until then I had been kind of camping out in the new studio. Having appropriate furniture and fittings may not […]
A group of artists have been inspired by the historic records of Shepton Mallet Prison, including “crimes” such as being a Suffragette or the theft of butter.
The artists will be spending time in the prison to create work inspired by the building and its history.
Continuing the life drawing theme from yesterday, here are life drawings in charcoal. I have a passion for wind instruments and loved drawing a cello. It was also a privilege to have witnessed a life model courageous enough to show […]
All of the aspects for the design come from the workshops. Lots of the participants draw three circles in the middle to represent them selves, baby and partner. They’re in red to represent a strong love. Around the centre are […]
I dove into my recorded programme archive today to find the BBC Life Drawing Live which was shown in May. Lesson learned, it’s easier to draw from when one can watch the pose cam, but with the pause button and […]