Untitled blog post from "Threads"
…and a few more photos…
…and a few more photos…
…and some more… they’re looking a bit dull here… sorry… something’s happened to them on the way somehow. I’ll mess about a bit, or take some more before I take them down next Wednesday.
Organised Yesterday was a day fully committed to becoming organised. Planning and sorting through a backlog of projects, I’ve whittled them down to three projects to work on at a time. 1/ ATM Family Portraits 2/ Shadow Portraits 3/ Sculptural […]
Sporting League: Game 29 Bayerns put three goals past seventeenth placed Metronova without reply. Pundit L: ‘I’ve never understood why Metro never seem to get it together. It’s a great set up over there, a fantastic city, but the football […]
As befitting of the New Year, various blog posts have highlighted artists’personal successes and failures of 2011 and looked to forthcoming shows in 2012. Rather than do this, I want to quickly put the spotlight on the organisations that I […]
Sickener, just discovered the worlds loingest scarf is 33 miles long…thats gonna take some beating, so…. on second thoughts then, i think a colour,(blue/white) to represent each year since the strart of the guild will be a good move. Waiting […]
I lived in London for seven years. I moved down there to study Fine Art, and went on to discover a passion for writing. By the end of my Masters, I found myself in a bit of a black hole. […]
This blog documents the development of a project by Lisa Wigham, which has been commissioned by In Certain Places. Lisa is one of five artists selected to create new artworks in response to the city of Preston, which will be […]
Arts Council England have today announced the appointment of Simon Mellor as the organisation’s new Executive Director, Arts.
During his final year of Fine Art at Coleg Menai, Maurice Lock fills us in on the sublime, its theatrical placing in his practice, and the use of materials as variants in finding and staging the artist’s answer.
16 November – 21 December 2011
In 2012 I will be Artist in Residence for 8 months at the Muse@269 Portobello Road, London. http://www.themuseat269.com/
Fine Art, specialising in Printmaking
Sheffield takes its name from the River Sheaf, which can be traced back to the Old English word shed; as in water shed. Of course watershed also alludes to the evening airtime of adult-content T.V in Britain. I’d like to […]
A blog detailng the transition from the ‘inside world’ of university to the outside world.
This blog documents the development of The Gates of Paradise, a project by Collaborative Space artists Jeni McConnell and Hannah Elizabeth Allan, commissioned by In Certain Places. They are two of five artists selected to create new artworks in response […]
3 January 2012 Back at my desk for the New Year and tackling the backlog of emails. This is the last week of our lovely exhibitions, Michael Craig-Martin’s Alphabet prints and Telling Tales: Story Scrolls from India. I’ll be getting […]
Emily Speed kicked off a very lovely round up of personal achievements of the year gone by a few years ago on a-n and a few of us followed suit. One can find it hard to talk about achievements but […]
Yes Emily Speed you started a positive trend in 2010 …. The annual Summing Up In 2011 1. No SUGAR! I gave up sugar for a whole year [minus alcohol]. Feel marvellous. Sugar addiction fixed! I ate no biscuits, cakes, […]
At New Year I visited the Museum of London: Dickens and London exhibition and the Dickens BBC programming, Dickens 2012 website have been helpful- as has having listened to a lot of his audiobooks whilst painting. Having looked closely at […]
Last week I settled down to a routine of working. I read and bookmarked during the day wherever I could, and made notes and wrote at night once everyone had given up and gone to bed. This seemed to work, […]
2012 has arrived and I have come to the end of the Botanic Garden residency and blog. So this will be my blogging opportunity from now on as I begin to think and create in the New Year. Over the […]
it’s been a while. There has now been plenty of time to reflect on ipso facto. So what of it? What of our practice together and apart. It has been over two months since we finished. Two month in which […]
I’m thrilled to be one of five artists commisioned by In Certain Places to make a piece of work that will be shown during Preston Guild 2012. I met all the other artists in December 2011 where we had a […]
I am currently exploring the use of the female form and women’s sexuality in art. I am interested in the cliche representations of women, pink, flowers, lace, and how these are associated with women being delicate and feminine; contrasted with […]