Hi I’ve recently added a mailchimp newsletter function to my website and have since found out that am legally required to include a home or business address on all my email newsletters. I’ve used mailchimp before when working for organisations […]
I was seeking ways to either exhibit or perform Lost Dreams, either in a gallery or at a festival. However, Coronavirus has changed that. I have made some temporary videos to upload the tracks to Youtube. The reason for this […]
The past week has been a bit rough – glad to be back on treatment but the drugs are strong. I must have slept for 12 hours on Friday. Before starting the new (old) chemo drugs I did manage a […]
hello, unusual times hey ! during the pandemic i’ve found that spending time walking has helped me to get some perspective of things. very early on i got a new insight into my dsylexia while on a walk. before the […]
today i’m beginning the documentation for the arts council covid-19 emergency fund supported project walking through the pandemic. in getting to this point i’ve tied myself into some huge knots through over thinking it a bit. it’s ok […]
a-n Artists Council has initiated a 12-month research and development project that will explore the role of the artist in society and advocate for how artists and art organisers can effectively work for change. Lead artists Rachel Dobbs and Glen Stoker speak to Jack Hutchinson about the project and how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted their plans.
Dave Beech explores how art, artists and arts practice participate in a wider revolution, and the inter-relationships between art’s political, activist and socially engaged practices and the institutional and infrastructural politics of art itself. Commissioned by a-n Artists Council as part of its one-year research project Artists Make Change.
Ellie Harrison discusses how arts skills and strategies, built over the course of a career, can be applied to ways of making change. Commissioned by a-n Artists Council as part of its one-year research project Artists Make Change.
It’s Sunday evening and Mental Health Awareness week starts tomorrow. Watch out for the bunting, the posters, the merch, events, interviews and tanned celebs repeating a one liner platitude. I won’t be joining in the ‘celebrations’ as I am not […]
working with an online community i orchestrated an interactive documentary (idoc) about walking through the pandemic.
the project has been gratefully supported by a grant from arts council england emergency response fund
Like a good autistic I’ve been in hyper-focus. Lockdown has brought a surprising clarity to my work. It’s as though my practice was made for this moment. It sounds like a strange thing to say, and it is. Other autistics […]
Hello good people, Lockdown has been a revelation for me in many respects, I have used every second of my time to keep pushing my work and its boundaries – and before this for sometime now I have been developing a […]
Someone said the other day that the garden has become a destination during this lockdown period. I have ventured into painting … and done a pen and ink drawing for the first time in ages. Gardens are truly healing places.
Years ago, when my daughters were 4 and 7 years old, I moved into the estate where I still live. I really struggled making a home out of a bare flat that was rented with us with no other flooring […]
so yes, oh yes – here i am – funded by the arts council – thank you so much – to research the question what can i do to re-ground myself ? in the post little and often #1 i discuss […]
my old gran had many amazing sayings and i found her words of some comfort at the beginning of the period we’ve got to know as lock down. her advice of doing a little and often was how i got […]
digital research made possible by a grant from the arts council’s covid-19 emergency fund for individuals.
Erygmascope is a new collaboration between Tracy Hill, artist, Ralph Hoyte, poet and writer, and Phill Phelps, musician, coder and audio-engineer. Commissioned by Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Carbon Landscape and City of Trees this project is an artist response to the […]
Uncrossing my arms: Lorna Simpson’s Five Day Forecast at Tate Liverpool American artist Lorna Simpson (1960) is one of the first black female artists to achieve critical, institutional and art market success. But none of that counts much when you’re […]
Hito Steyerl: How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013) “Whatever is not captured by resolution is invisible” intones the narrator of Hito Steyerl’s How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013). […]
over the course of my blogging here on the a-n platform i’ve recorded, reflected and reviewed about many topics, feelings and works. today i’m blogging from our family home, the washing machine revving up into a spin, woman’s hour is […]
I got told to “eat the world”. I’d planned to go to Glasgow, or was it Mexico? or praps I’ll just stay home. Drowning in lungs, like little pockets of pacific. City folks come down here wearing country clothes. I’ve […]
