Starting Back!!
Getting back to business in the studio after the Covid lockdown was a triumph! although the primer did need a really good stir!
Getting back to business in the studio after the Covid lockdown was a triumph! although the primer did need a really good stir!
This is a personal journey through my years at The University of Bolton studying Fine Art…The if’s, what’s, and the Attempts… The Homework and the Studio processes, my tiny biosphere of stuff n’ that.
I have 5 screenprints in my current show at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. On until the 24th October – you can visit online if you can’t get there in person – www.openeyegallery.co.uk I first tried printmaking a few […]
I did a presentation where I looked at what work had previously done as well as what I was working on and where I am thinking of taking my work. By doing presentations I find that I’m able to see […]
I am currently having my first solo show with a gallery, the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. What a time to have a show! I was awarded this exhibition in February 2019 at the Visual Arts Scotland Open Exhibition ‘Alight’. […]
A recent collage exploring identity and the environment. What a year to become an A-N Board Member! As I look back over a year of Board Meetings and pre-lockdown events I’m beginning to understand the purpose of my being […]
I was looking through photos of galleries I’ve been to and came across a a photo of a map at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 2015; which might be relevant to my research into rubbings and psychogeography. This is […]
I seem to be on a ride I can’t get off at the moment. I obsess about my age. While anybody would scoff and say I’m young, at 31 I don’t have a home, a reliable income, a baby, or […]
We are a group of 9 from different backgrounds and experiences. Group members: Bettina Fung (main organiser of the study group) A visual artist based in London, interested in incorporating drawing into live art. Themes of ritual, futility, purposelessness, notions […]
Fantasies of Exhibition Road ‘Artists and scientists re-imagine Albertopolis’
Digital festival of cultural exchange and collaboration between the UK and Hong Kong to take place from 11-14 November, curated by independent curator Ying Kwok.
Lady Kitt and Dan Russell’s Artists Make Change Peer Learning Group for the North East of England.
Why do we want to keep mementos of the dead? Shortly after filmmaker Agnès Varda died, I went to Paris to learn from her life — and take a piece of it home with me.
Cold War Steve: Benny’s Babbies Work is placed in 18th 19th century art Contemporary politics juxtaposed with historic works Disrupt the museum’s established collection Looking for slippage in a traditional sense of space Humour in a serious context Framed traditionally […]
We are a group of artists, curators and arts educators, where the majority are members of Young Blood Initiative, an international community of artists that aims to explore other ways to create and collaborate. We have set up this study […]
Angela Kingston She uses a lateral process in curating 3am: Wonder, Paranoia and the restless night (2013), making the exhibition poetic as well as factual. There’s a chapter in the catalogue on how she went about curating the exhibition – […]
Qs: How do we get connected to the local council budgeting process? How do public budgets work? When does fiscal year start (4-5 months before that budgets are being proposed)? What is power structure/dynamics in a local council? Who are […]
I take a left off at Great Coates Interchange, the last exit prior to downtown Grimsby, glancing at my rear view as I ease along the slip lane. I drift by a couple of roundabouts, pulling over at the non-road […]
Validation… Why do we need it? I’m always happy working in the studio, either on my own in the building at whatever time of day or night, or if my fellow artists are bustling about. I’m not always happy with […]
Over the past few years I have focussed on negative painting as I find that this approach really allows the vibrancy of transparent layers of paint to shine out of the painting.
An outstanding classical siyah qalam drawing (soot and brush) on paper by 16th Century artist Muhammad Herati.