Composition. Due to the increased weight of the MDF elements, as opposed to cardboard, a replication of the maquette composition was pretty infeasible. At least without butchering one or two of the elements in some way, as I did, to […]
After having written my context assignment I feel refreshed and ready to move forward to my next experiment which I will show for the midpoint. I am focussing on simulacra in advertising, communication and how it very much a means […]
I am excited because I have finished my first piece of work since my sketchbook exercise.
Contemporary Fine Art (Mart) Over the past term my peers and I have been on placements learning about the challanges and rewards involved with actually trying to become a professional artist of some degree. My blog will consist of my […]
in november 2014 we published our go and see bursary review. it informed an art walk in belper parks www.corridor-arts.org.uk
The one where: The teacher told me to do less art. I still get surprised by the gulf between students abilities to carry out the same task! We made cardboard models of school in Malawi today. Not as random as […]
Some photos of the scrawling in one of my many notebooks…..
JULIET- GSA Mutual crawled in to a hole over Christmas to eat and sleep, underground its great, fluffy body swelled and got stronger and as the old year expired The Mutual, Glasgow emerged into the light a bigger, better beast […]
Sea Observations Part 1 17th December. Snow, hail and strong winds – the sea is wild and wavy, white spray against the boat, a dark aquamarine meeting the bruised brown sky at a black horizon. 18th December. The sea is […]
Sea Observations Part 2 1st January. I saw flying fish shimmering over the sea like giant dragonflies. 2nd January. On the bridge I look over the railing, straight down to the sea, 15 metres below. The deep blue is interrupted […]
Time and Waiting For four days the table is occupied by Katy’s jigsaw puzzle. It mustn’t be moved. It’s a difficult one: a picture of a steam train, with lots of leafy foliage and vague white steam, which means many […]
(Mis)Communication Without easy communication, time slows down, and we think more about what to say, how do we communicate our feelings. We miss people. Writing a letter becomes an action, a gesture of expressing feelings and emotions which have no […]
Identities Part 1 We set off on this journey with a pile of books and texts and a suitcase of assorted costumes, unsure as to how these would coincide on the journey to unravel the myth of identity we were […]
Identities Part 2 We became very aware of our gender on board ship. From before we arrived we were repeatedly warned of the Polish seamen. We were told again and again how unusual it was for two young women to […]
Movement and Containment The limiting nature of the space aboard ship has affected our energies and our physical and mental capacities. We have both slowed down. But the slowing down is necessary: a coping mechanism without which we might go […]
Kill them All! Last night my companion and I watched a film of Zizek doing an election speech for the Liberal Democratic Party in Slovenia. He said he wanted to get crosses and garlic and stakes and kill all the […]
Recently I’ve been using the internet to network: FaceBook and Twitter. Even though I’m living up a mountain in the middle of nowhere it is easy to be in contact with galleries, curators and fellow artists. I’ve had a FaceBook […]
I had an email off Amy today saying The show at CoExist Arts is going to be called ‘Set Of Odd Volumes’ http://www.coexist.org.uk/next.html I managed two books yesterday, so I’m defiantly on track now.
Popped into college today to see the third years. Didn’t stay long as I only had an hour and a half to spare and they were on their way to lunch. I’m not printing at the moment so it seemed […]
I have been working on one of my many attempts at writing a statement about my work. Here is the latest of these: “Drawing is an absorbing activity and a way of allowing subjectivity to emerge through the mark-making process […]
My history from 11/01/10 Northumbria University | Project blogs | Artists talking | a-n Project blogs | Artists talking | a-n Getting paid | Project blogs | Artists talking | a-n BBC iPlayer – Listen live – BBC 6 Music […]
I have spent some time organising the structure of how people will interact with the project over the past week or so. There are now some guidelines in place, I have a feeling however with the nature of the project […]
Another good day, firstly, I am a winner! A blog winner to be precise, which is very nice and I am looking forward to my prize – a copy of Rachel Howfield’s book. Thanks very much a-n. This morning there […]
In June 2009, Matt Roberts Arts was granted a NAN Go and See bursary to travel to Sweden and Denmark for research and development. Emilia Telese talks to Matt Roberts of Matt Roberts Arts about the bursary and its impact on the organisation.
Richard Taylor in conversation with Northumbria University Fine Art student Nathalie Bouleau Chabot.
