Taking advantage of a long awaited clutter free mental space to focus on art priorities for this year. Last year was too busy with a long series of self imposed deadlines. New Year’s resolution is quality rather than quantity for […]
Last night I went to see The Artist, by Michel Hazanavicius at The Showroom Cinema. As a motion picture, paying homage to the golden silence of the pre-talkie era, The Artist was bewitching. It captivated and beguiled, using exaggerated narrative […]
Sporting League: Game 35 Tranquilayers and Universo Collunteen played in what had to be the game of the season which finished as a two – two draw. Sporting Radio Pundit S: ‘Well I’m down here at the Universo stadium and […]
Technical Issues Abound Tonight has been a night of fun and games; scissors that wont cut, tape that doesn’t stick, a light in my studio that turns off every 3 minutes unless I wave at it and finally a printer […]
The Research Module assessment took place yesterday and everything was ready in time, with just a couple of dramas on the way. Having put up a ‘roof’ over my space to reduce light levels for video, my first effort was […]
Aims of Clos Charmant To provide a space for professional artists to generate work To provide opportunity for artists to share skills To be a place for people to come to in order to learn new skills through courses and […]
On this day in 1970: John Lennon’s Erotic Art is confiscated by Scotland Yard This very appropriate article is currently in the Time Out blog today, the questions of what makes art erotic and is it acceptable to be shown […]
In the winter cold, out walking with my camera. Taking a break from uploading some old black & white negatives onto the computer. Playing around in my digital darkroom, having fun. Just enjoying making, not worrying about results. Sometimes that’s […]
Great text! Something to start the week withL A Very Short Critique of Relational Aesthetics by Radical Culture Research Collective (RCRC) http://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/11963408… excerpt: It’s not that experiments in forms and models of sociability are not needed today – they certainly […]
Audio files from Symposium: Art Pracitse in a Social Context that took place in Sheffield in Dec 2011 are now on-line: http://artspace.org.uk/blog/permalink/2012-01/symp…
One more for today from newest e-flux journal (31) After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social by Gregory Sholette http://www.e-flux.com/journal/after-ows-social-pra… excerpt: Perhaps, rather than thinking of social practice art as a strategy for unlikely survival […]
16.1.12 The lovely new exhibition Inspired Responses 7 is now up. Phew!!! A few technical difficulties there – have you ever tried to suspend a cricket bat covered in mosaic from a non-load bearing ceiling? Anyway, it looks much nicer […]
ATM Family Portraits (a photo series of family portraits taken in unusual locations therefore out of context) The ATM was dead quiet Sunday afternoon, no-one around; just optimum conditions. In the end I didn’t need a lumo jacket! A car […]
I’m well chuffed. Just got marks back from assessments… both better than last set of results and practice mark has nudged up into the distinction category. Encouraging, and still got plenty of space for improvement for finals. Big smile on […]
The last few days have taught me – you are nothing without PHOTOSHOP. Technology I love you.
Ikon gallery, birmingham
1 September – 30 November 2011
