Castle & Elephant is a new gallery in the centre of Coventry. Rather than having a fixed abode it will exist in constant transition, moving to available empty shop units in the City Arcade.
The Photographers’ Gallery has named Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber, and Donovan Wylie as the four shortlisted artists nominated for its annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
This month we take a look at some current projects in the world of commissions, from innovative works in the public realm to those in a gallery interpretation programme and performing artists’ film and video.
Artists and curators relate methods of navigating a self-directed exhibiting career.
Artist Ania Bas and Exhibitions Officer Helen Jones reflect on an innovative approach to being an artist-in-residence at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
Twaddle is a doddle. It’s statement time again (I see that I last wrote about this early last month when I was in full-flow statement-mode). I thought I had it cracked, but there you go. Coming up with something meaningless […]
In Deptford there is a huge hub of artist studios: Cor Blimey Arts, Creekside, APT, Artworks to name a few and we are all collected on this rather splendid artmap www.deptfordartmap.com Set up by Julia Alvarez of Bearspace who has […]
It’s three weeks after my last stint on the stairs and I’ve spent that time thinking abut what I learnt and deciding what I want to take forward. Work (the paying kind) has taken over for a while but I’m […]
I’ve been making a work that will constitute a baffle on the stairwell. I mean something more than baffle really, in that it will both disguise the utter drop at the centre of the stairwell and reveal it as well. […]
I’ve been gorging on grey today, or at least trying to. Some days you think you know what to do, other days all you can do is guess, and maybe the second is only the first without confidence. I’m pushing […]
I have been trying to finish some paintings that I have on the go I want to push them as far as I can, to that golden point just before I kill them. I have no idea where that is […]
Curator Renaud Proche co-curated a series of archives of stuff in an artists studio: http://the-backroom.org When visiting an artist Renaud’s started to notice the things on an artists fridge door, the postcards on the walls and the tat that they […]
Berlin’s Memorial Mile Groups representing both the homosexuals and the Gypsies began many years ago to plan for their own plot on Berlin’s memorial mile. But they were both stalled, not only by long processes to secure land and funding, […]
All but a few stretches of the Berlin Wall were torn down in the first heady months after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.). Yet some east Germans still cling to memories of the 40 years they lived […]
A discussion on life drawing, anatomy & art has just started on the Drawing Research Network: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind… Contributers, so far, are enthusiastically in support of observational drawing from life as a valuable activity at all levels. Well, they/we would be, […]
I had a day off ‘all work’ today, and had that experience about not knowing what to do on my day off. It’s quite difficult to prize yourself off the self employed treadmill at times. Daydreaming about summer already and […]
I’ve finally done something with my cell prints! I was planning on making a floor installation. That didn’t work. Then I was going to sew them together, but they were limp and had no structure at all. Finally I got […]
Trying to understand what the difference is between an image that is alive and one that is dead. Looking at some of my prints, there are some that are alive, they have a voice and a life of their own. […]
A rare opportunity arose recently, for something that I know (from reading blogs on Artists Talking) many artists long for. A few weeks ago I had sent a ‘good luck’ message to a friend who was about to present her […]
Thanks to all visitor who attended the Private viewing at Celestial Contrakt.It was a massive success according to the viewers, thanks to all these crowed stayed watching performances and live tunes until late! Some pics from the show! Important artist […]
I have finished my painting challenge to paint an oil painting every day for a year visit here; http://danyoungdaily.blogspot.com and have promptly started a new year of making drawings everyday! If you like there are now over 365 paintings to […]
Thinking about the drawings/objects may well work as photographs, or rather just showing a photograph of them. There is definitly something about how they look. Two pieces for the exhibition are shown, but they may appear different in their final […]
Busy, busy, busy…… why are the days feeling shorter and the weeks quicker??? Since my last update I have been vigorously painting my 6 chosen portraits, I had a clear week before receiving feedback on my dissertation draft and in […]
This is an image of the clutter that Ursula Goldfinger argued with her husband, Erno about. Perhaps in the way that Daniel Miller in his essay, Possessions’ talks about the residents of the modernist flats of the Lark Estate, who […]
I wasn’t able to attach all images to previous blog entry, so here are the last two:
