Class of 2021: Àfrica Ollé
Swansea College of Art graduating artist Àfrica Ollé discusses her/their work.
Swansea College of Art graduating artist Àfrica Ollé discusses her/their work.
Graduating University of Wales Trinity St. David, Swansea College of Art student Sarah Matthews.
The Swansea College of Art graduating artist discusses her work.
Exploring the digital, experimental film, and the making of tactile hands-on artwork with the layers of London’s strata.
Connectivity X It Memorised and the Genetic Memory. Animation study metaphorically considers pieces of clay as bits of memory. The inherited characters and resemblance of physical features of the body are different things. The former belongs to the ongoing discussion about […]
In the spring, before the midges hatched and inspired by Louise Fletcher on the Art Juice podcast, I registered with The Sketchbook Project. The Sketchbook Project is the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks and is housed in Brooklyn, New York. Many are digitised and […]
The story behind this visual sketch connects the state of being in the mental health hospital and the outside world. Preparing participants’ artworks for the exhibition inside a display board in the corridor, the understanding of the closed space came […]
Connectivity VIII. Observation. “We are the Nature…” This fact is often forgotten, but each Person on Planet Earth is a representative of Nature. While carrying out art workshops in the mental health hospital I started thinking about a variety […]
Connectivity VII. The short draft animation titled ‘Where is the Freedom?’ There are quadra doors at low-security units, no escapes for the body, but possible runaway is provided by the freedom of expression during art workshops. I managed to compare […]
Connectivity VI. The short draft animation titled ‘I am sleeping but not in my bed’ is my 6/12 weeks artist’s response to the residency at the mental health hospital carried virtually during the COVID Pandemic. The work reflects the process […]
A ‘conversation’ between the late Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili and the contemporary British artist, poet and critic Alexander Adams.
Somewhat unsure I tentatively knock on the door of a terraced house. The address is correct, I have tripled checked it…but there is no sign that there is a gallery here. I am late, but I have let Johnny Golding […]
Is pottery undervalued? how is it that the same painting/design on paper is worth much more if produced on paper or canvas than if it is made on clay?
My new work ‘Intervallum’ will be part of First Flight outdoor excision as part of First Light Festival celebrations.
I used a craft knife and cut out sections of -1 to create a void in the scene depicted in the photocopy. This introduces the wall behind the piece as another part of the artwork, because it breaks the dimension […]
Plymouth College of Art graduating artist Lucie Smith.
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows.
It has been an honor to exhibit at CADAF this year. Thank you to the curators for having me. I wrote this piece to reflect on what this exhibition means to me and on the trajectory of my work over […]
The Six Shot Gallery is a new online gallery featuring monthly solo showcases, launched January 2021. The online gallery will focus on a different artist every calendar month. Each exhibition will showcase just six images by each artist, or creative entity. […]