Please send me written confirmation on my insurance status with you. I need public liability and product liability insurance for an art market I’m doing later in the year. I know I pay for insurance with A-N but I have […]
Day 2: Tuesday All working in our individual studios we meet three times in the day. Here are our individual reflections and thoughts from the day’s actions and events. Louisa Chambers: A different ‘feeling’ rainy day that is having an […]
MA Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art. “Underpinned by endeavours to critique the inaccessibility of the arts, my work revolves around the notion that art can ultimately be a playful inquiry that oozes joy. I use colour, shape and materiality […]
Swifts: A Virtual Residency Day 1: Monday Today we started this short 3-day virtual residency. All working in our individual studios we meet three times in the day. Here are our individual reflections and thoughts from the day’s actions and […]
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Virtual Art Residency with Louisa Chambers, Victoria Lucas, Danica Maier, Olivia Penrose Punnett, Lucy Renton, Sue Withers
Monday: Erika and I will be showing in the adjacent galleries at Uppsala Artists’ Club in January. Earlier in the summer we exchanged a few emails and on Monday afternoon we met up for a chat. We had met at […]
Deep breath, and then GO… Arts Council England said yes. Thank you. I’ve been at this for over a year. If you count the first abortive attempt, nearly two years. This was the seventh attempt. Six unsuccessful applications. So the […]
Deep breath, and then GO… Arts Council England said yes. Thank you. I’ve been at this for over a year. If you count the first abortive attempt, nearly two years. This was the seventh attempt. Six unsuccessful applications. So the […]
“The work is to keep doing the work.” When I read that in Estés’ Women Who Run With Wolves I felt some kind of relief. It makes it ok to never actually be ok, or more accurately to never reach […]
Equilibrium in chaos.
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Textiles artist discusses how arts organisations need to better engage deaf and disabled artists, and how the coronavirus pandemic presents a time for change and opportunity.
Wednesday: I set off for Uppsala with enough time to see Alvar Campo’s installation at the museum (and pick-up the second light and tripod) before the committee meeting at the artists’ club. The Observatory (part 1) The Measure of Change, […]
This is my first blog post on a-n :) In the Archaeology of Self series that I have been working since 2019, I explore the intersection of figuration, abstraction and indexicality of subjecthood in the context of the Anthropocene. The […]
Laying a screenprint, one colour separation after another
In the Archaeology of Self series that Jose Westerman has been working since 2019, he explores the intersection of figuration, abstraction and indexicality of subjecthood in the context of the anthropocene. The interplay of the abstract artefacts and the figurative […]
Moscow based photographer wins £15,000, plus an additional £1,250 for being the winner of the Mental Health series category, in prize designed to help combat health taboos.
In the middle of a pandemic, amidst the pain and anger that erupted as a result of the George Floyd murder, it is hard to make art that captures this point in time. Yet, The symbolism of the Four Horsemen seems perfectly suited to these imperfect times.
One drenched, gloomy morning a few weeks ago, we found ourselves on a rural-lane-detour around major roadworks en-route to the studio. As I sat in the passenger seat, snapping photos from the window on my phone (a favourite way of […]
