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.
I live in Llanelli and it is the first town to be put under lockdown. Llanelli is tiny once you realise you’re not allowed to leave. I am a cyclist. Below is a photo of me completing the Everesting challenge […]
05/10/20 – I had week 1 and 2 of CUBED, a space to practice/work with installing our work. Here is the space I had to work with as well as the poster I designed for my exhibition. It was scary […]
something that is regularly discussed in our house is gender – the language of it and the pronouns of it. until yesterday it had happened around me and i’d been taking part in the discussion yet not fully engaged with […]
I don’t give a shit, I literally don’t. I’ve learnt it a long time ago when we lived in an overcrowded flat and the toilet was outside, so from age 4 or 5 I remember having to run outside in […]
BA-LF: How to apply the Doughnut Economics Thinking & Teal Paradigm to an Artists Network and Beyond.
What do Alban Low and Ellie Breeze have in common? Alban Low is a professional illustrator, working a signature calligraphic style for album covers and specialising in impromptu portraits of jazz musicians. He tells me how he has two distinct […]
I printed the architectural layouts of Birmingham School of Arts on pieces of a4 paper. I then cut the shapes out and dropped them normally. Then I changed the routine slightly by 1. folding a piece 2. scrunching 2 pieces. […]
