On Wednesday 4th November we’ve had our first Peer Learning Group – Artists Make Change meeting at Centre of Gravity, Bristol. So exciting! It’s 11 of us: Laura Bottin, Lisa Friedberg, Anna Haydock -Wilson, Deborah Weinreb from BA-LF, John O’Connor, […]
AN MENTOURING BLOG-BEX MASSEY 2019-2020 I was lucky enough to receive a-n Mentoring 2019-2020. This comprised of four hour long (which happily usually ran over) sessions via Skype with the fabulous Lucy Day. Lucy is an independent curator, artists mentor and […]
Read my article to see how I successfully job searched during a pandemic, with hints and tips for your own job search.
*Trigger warnings: suicidal ideation, hopelessness, discouragement and despair. As November is drawing to a close and so is the second lockdown of this mad year, Guy Fawkes night and Remembrance day seem like the only recurring familiar markers to get my […]
A question I have been asking myself this weekend is where does my recent work sit with the idea of the uncanny? The uncanny came about in Freud’s essay, which stems from the word unheimlich, and he writes that it’s […]
(Danny Smith in Flashback) The Shadowlight Artists are a collective of seven artists with learning disabilities, formed in 2009. They are supported, managed, and produced by Film Oxford. I’ve been lucky enough to work on Shadowlight projects since 2015, and […]
A place to write about my inclusive praxis
I wanted to distort the actual work this time. I wasn’t sure of this while creating The Haze of Social Media, I was scared to damage the breasts but I became more confident and decided to place the breast in a cup […]
I was choosing the photos to be in a digital portfolio for assessment next month, and it was an opportunity to look closer at the photos of the metal sheets. I agree with what Mona said in the last tutorial. […]
This is the story of my journeys to the mystical land of Virtual Reality, offloading the insights I brought back on my ship.
What do Beric Livingstone and Craig Pinder have in common? Beric Livingstone was front man of indie group The Healing Fields and tells me how the realities of keeping the show on the road didn’t always match up to his […]
For immediate release 18 Nov 2020 Local artist to be presented South Oxford Community Centre New Hinksey Arts Visual Exhibition Veronica Cordova de la Rosa artist presented New Hinksey Christmas exhibition virtually from 16th November and by appointment from Sunday […]
I tried squeezing washing up liquid from the bottle onto an A4 piece of cartridge paper. The presence of green goo pooled on the paper is what I expected. It was slightly more viscous than water, but less than oil […]
Community printmaking workshop, Newcastle Printmakers welcomed myself, Greg Fuller and Jason Hicklin for the day to share with them some of our practice as part of the International Artist in Residence programme. Great day of discussions, critical conversation and practical […]
Ash Island was once one of a number of islands and mudflats found in the Hunter River estuary. Today it is part of the larger island known as Kooragang Island. It has an interesting but troubled history of occupation and […]
