The lorry, a prominent factor within my grandad’s life. His businesses revolved around driving lorries, becoming his main form of income. His life revolved around living in lorries for days at a time, travelling all over the uk delivering. This […]
A performance of transitional distance condensed into a single moment. The litmus paper is rolled up to allow the viewer to experience a length of time in one moment. Litmus paper is a reactive recording device. It’s colour changes from […]
Iron Oxide Tattoo Ink, Citric Acid, Litmus Paper, Bowl, Body Using modern Tattooing techniques to reflect ancient fertility scarification. Introducing traits of toxic femininity through the use of citric acid (an allergen) of which I feel mirrors my relationship with […]
This action was a preparation for the performance ‘Reel of Litmus Paper’. I tattooed the soles of my feet using homemade iron oxide tattoo ink (powdered ore), the recipe of which interpreted from ancient tattooing process. The use of this […]
Excerpt from my website blog post this week after a philosophical day of writing prose poetry and thinking about my piece in the current DUST Rising exhibition in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
SVETTA ART CLUB project is supported by Arts Council England, National Lottery Fund, and CPFT. Free 12 Art Workshops are designed to provide absorbing and engaging time for all staff including clinical and corporate staff, staff working on the wards […]
Glasgow based artist becomes 12th recipient of the £15,000 Margaret Tait Award, Scotland’s most prestigious moving image prize for artists.
As Laura Mulvey created her term of the male gaze, she exploits this through the female gaze; a female POV. She introduced this way of looking through her essay “Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema”. Mulvey didn’t address the female gaze […]
As a twenty-five-year-old with terrible circulation and a spine like a Jenga tower – in the sense that one wrong movement means I am resigned to lie on the floor for a while – I have usually laughed off these […]
For this meeting I had set the group a question to think about: What would we like people to get from the experience of participating in a walk? This question was to uncover some of the motivations for why we […]
During lockdown Invert/Extent began putting together a book of artist writings and conversations considering what artists were doing, ideas that were percolating, or where their heads were at in the current situation. Many of these were featured online at Transmissions and […]
MISC.©R-HR2005-2023 Contemporary Art Critical Theory R-H Robinson 2012 Bookplan #4: Contemporary Fine Art and Society Art Practice and Theory Postmodern aesthetics supports the industrialization of culture as commodity- the use of audience and spectacle key to the production and consumption […]
Reflection 30/04/21: This 1-1 has been a turning point for my projection in response to the space/installation. The double projections have been received well by my peers, 1-1’s with Matt and Gary. Especially 29/04/21 1-1 with matt we discussed the […]
Dorothy Cross remembers the freedom and energy of the 1990s, travelling, meeting other artists and making ambitious site-specific work.
Yinka Shonibare outlines the development of his work in the 1990s, including his “big jump from painting to costume”.
Rachel Whiteread recalls “learning how to be an artist and making some very ambitious pieces” in the 1990s.
Gary Hume reflects on his successes during the 1990s and on being “prepared to risk my career for being an artist.”
Richard Billingham reflects on the turning points in his photography and experimental films, which he began making during the 1990s.
Bobby Baker discusses her work and life in the 1990s, the “most productive, intense, crazy period of my career.”
Lubaina Himid remembers the difficulties and successes of the “wilderness years” of 1990s, and how she built her “whole life around making work.”
Catherine Bertola and Rosie Morris provide a platform for women artists and writers to highlight less visible, marginalised and precarious practices in the second series of our magazine style publications celebrating the a-n archive.
Download and print Jade Montserrat’s poster artwork. Presented alongside the publication of Artists Newsletter #2: The 1990s.
