
Stephen White – Checker Board Days
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Archive
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Venue:
Westgate Studios -
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January 25, 2012 -
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February 09, 2012 -
Location:
Yorkshire
Introduction to Week 2 When I first conceived this project all I wanted to do was document if I learnt anything over the period of a year. I never expected find out anything like I did this week. All that […]
check out the other artists also invonved with the project:http://incertainplaces.org/uncategorized/lisa-wighamhttp://incertainplaces.org/uncategorized/collaborative-spacehttp://incertainplaces.org/uncategorized/david-henckel
going to a meeting this week about floats for the Preston Guild, i also spoke to Sylvia Lancaster last week.Sophiesmum. www.sophielancasterfoundation.com We had a really good chat about contacting all the punks goths and metal heads in Preston to create […]
Jo Farnell recommended I read “Evocative Objects: Things We Think With” (ed Sherry Turkle, MIT Press 2007). I hot-keyed it over to Amazon and ordered it. I’ve only flicked through it a bit, and read the introduction, but felt I […]
The Sporting League: Game 34 Bayerns took their share of the spoils with a hard won victory over Red Star. Tranquilayers cruised to a three goals to nil win over Indentine to keep alive a three point gap at the […]
Yesterday I went to visit the parish church of St. Michaels which is where Horrocks went to fulfill his spiritual duties. His observations of the transit were interrupted 3 times so that he could attend to what he reffered to […]
I went to meet Professor Simon Hisock at the University of Bristol this week to talk about how I might develop work further, inspired by the Botanic Garden. He was very helpful: we discussed the amazing, magical science of how […]
Wakefield Artwalk 25/01/12 Westgate Studios Project Space: Stephen White: Check Board Days A solo show featuring original hand pulled screen prints, original paintings and limited edition T-shirts by the Sheffield based artist Stephen White at Westgate Studio, Wakefield. For this […]
#tweetart We have a small, self-contained gallery space in our studio (Westgate Studio, Wakefield, UK) which was formerly The Prince Albert and is now white-walled, tidy and has become the latest incarnation of PEEP! gallery; an ongoing curatorial project since […]
I’ve written a few posts already in projects unedited www.a-n.co.uk/p/1832928/ I decided to move the writing about my MA onto degrees unedited in the run up to September when my course finishes. I’m currently working on translating the distribution of […]
MA Fine Art: Site and Archive Intervention
Finished the modelling paste acrylic painting…finally! (i really don’t like it compared to oil painting, but as an experiment it seems to have worked pretty well). 2 more paintings to finish off today then sketchbook work ’til i go crazy. […]
The Collection Plate has been collected. Its contents examined and archived – in that I have photographed and listed both the start and finish of the project. When I put in the proposal I was reacting to the curator’s interest […]
Since returning to this blog with a new (and steely) determination to continue with some regularity, I have had a a revelation. 1. At the weekend everything goes to pot. This really should be no surprise. Every Monday morning I […]
So far 2012 has been really really busy: seem to have spent all my time at meetings, but the good news is that I have been awarded a bursary to go to the State of the Arts conference up at […]
The Showroom, London
13 January 2012
New Art Exchange, Nottingham
14 January – 31 March 2012
There’s been a flurry of media excitement about the upsurge in artist’s activity in northern cities driven by opportunities arising out of the economic downturn, most recently with Radio 4’s PM visiting Sheffield. We talked to artist Matthew Conduit, who raised concerns about the sustainability of this activity on PM, about the reality of the situation for artists
I have had the dreaded lurgy- chest infection and all. Thankfully after Christmas, but am only now beginning to feel human agin. Sadly with it comes the realisation that I am now behind with everything , but still lacking the […]
In 2009 a simultaneous filming of the casts at the Harris Museum, Preston and the Baptistry, Florence took place. The text below recalls the intervention as a conversation between the spaces. Absorb the historic surroundings; ancient, powerful and majestic buildings […]
Gosh, haven’t blogged on here since the beginning of December! By mid Dec the kids were off school, so I was forced to take time out to play hostess to my Mum and brother for Christmas. I can’t say I […]