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Eleven Thames lighters were landed and part filled with concrete on Essex mudflats in 1986. This to protect the seawall at Sales point, in the mouth of the River Blackwater, Essex. Further along the coast stands Bradwell A, a decommissioned […]
There’s a saying about certain plants – first year sleeps, second year creeps, third year leaps. This process has been a bit like that and I’m currently in a leap. Which is a relief. Last week I had an email […]
I compiled this blog back in February, and have updated it to highlight issues of grifting that affect artists in Lincoln: https://helend-blackbird.blogspot.com/2021/02/so-social-prescribing-is-hot-topic.html I read on social media of a friend that said she had MH, but now has a good […]
This was the most successful piece in the last semester because the presentation of the print in the frame within the white space worked well as a whole. I prefer to show my work in a clean space because it’s […]
The debut solo show of paintings by Ghanaian-born artist Kojo Marfo. Open until 17 July. A part of Mayfair Art Weekend.
Chris Sharratt talks to three Fine Art tutors about the challenges of teaching during a global pandemic.
With a nod to the Noughties, Guest Editor Shy Bairns explores collectives and how artists work together to build their own art worlds.
Review of Bedwyr Williams exhibition Nimrod at Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool.
Simon Morrissey cuts to the chase with Cornelia Parker and finds out how she has fought commercial pressures to follow her own artistic agenda.
Contemporary re-enactment, art event or memorial? David Butler gives an insider account of Jeremy Deller’s ambitious Artangel Times commission.
I saved 20 kronor (about two pounds) and an inevitable sense of disappointment by not dashing out to buy a copy of Uppsala Times last Saturday. The article about the group show appeared only in the online version of […]
Cornelia Parker outlines the main changes she’s experienced as an artist over the last 20 years including the opening of Tate Modern.
Collaborative duo Forest + Found discuss their role as artists in “thinking and engaging with our natural resources and the environment.”
Larry Achiampong reflects on the role of art as “a place to conversate, to agree, to disagree, to hope, to dream, to imagine, to debate.”
Harold Offeh outlines how his success as an artist “has been built on the hard efforts, work and activism of previous generations.”
Barby Asante reflects on what has changed for artists in the last two decades, and on the “deep and painful work” of decolonising the art worlds.
Mark Titchner describes the role of art in engendering empathy and how artists “hold up a muddy mirror to the world”.
Artist collective Rat Trap outline their hopes for the future of the arts in Wales and consider “how to keep striving for utopian visions”.
Bedwyr Williams considers the role of art and the main changes he’s experienced as an artist over the last 20 years.