The way I am working now is very similar to how I was working a couple of years ago… circumstances have led me now, as then, back to the confines of a sketchbook – mostly. I’m trying things out again. […]
After a surreal and beautiful journey home (empty trains through an empty landscape right through France on a gorgeous spring day), I came back to confined London. Like most other people, I have a lot of unknowns to deal with, […]
And then, coronavirus hit. We’d been hearing the news from Italy, the few cases in a ski resort not far from Grenoble, and then it was clearly becoming established throughout France. Educational establishments were shut down in early March – […]
A long hiatus since my last post. Obviously, a lot has happened since then… In this post I want to talk about how I was working in the couple of weeks before confinement kicked in (on 17 March in France, […]
Artist Naomi Incledon stages her Land Art exhibition in digital format to combat lockdown
The just-published 32-page guide includes an expanded ‘Class of 2020’ section featuring images and insight from both graduating students and lecturers, plus there’s an extensive interview with collaborative duo Jane and Louise Wilson, and collectives from around the UK discuss why ‘putting heads together to collaborate is an artistic no brainer’
When we first went into lockdown, it prompted me to paint the outside wall that I’d been meaning to paint since I moved here in 2013. I took a photo of the wall this weekend and I was struck by […]
This project is in tandem with the blog: “Locked down into Paying/Denying Attention”.
I intend to access a beach that has no official access.
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL. Louisa Clark says of her practice: “My work aims to form different perspectives on familiar things, inviting a type of playful observation. My practice is primarily concerned with the translation […]
Includes an expanded ‘Class of 2020’ section featuring images and insight from both graduating students and lecturers, plus there’s an extensive interview with collaborative duo Jane and Louise Wilson, and collectives from around the UK discuss why ‘putting heads together to collaborate is an artistic no brainer’. Available on issuu and as downloadable pdf.
BA Fine Art (Sculpture), Leeds Art University. Speaking about her work, Aisha Matraxia says: “Throughout the past two years, my work has been a gradual development into looking at the home and our relationship with objects and the domestic. My […]
BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, University of Arts London. Speaking about his work, Jonah Fried says: “My practice revolves around mark-making as an aid to my core research, which looks at uniqueness and mass production. In my quest […]
Two Mints on my allotment presently. How many mints are there? 7,500. Yes. The Mint Family Lamiaceae includes mints, sage, lavender, basil, thymes. Mints alone have 600 varieties including peppermint, spearmint, chocolate, orange, apple, liquorice, ginger etc. Mint the herb […]
Images: 50°18’50.4″N 3°36’60.0″W 29.04.2020 Both taken at the same time, different angle. In lock down within walking distance of the beach, provided my arthritis isn’t playing up too much. #payingattention #notphotoshopped
Image: Mud. 14.03.20 50°18’49.0″N 3°38’02.7″W 14.03.20 First: ‘why blog?’ The medium seems problematic. This takes me back to art school. I was talking about humans as animals and illustration was my medium of choice, it was and is also my […]
Image: Bombus lucorum 12.04.20 A very proper bumble bee, with a yellow stripe and a white bum, crawled under a log after a lot of dithering about. I had been trespassing and was now nearing the public right of way […]
Image: Lockdown 12.04.20 This started in the first week of UK Lockdown, when I caught myself bogged down in the daily mire of scrolling through the newsless news app. What am I looking at? Anguished and tearful at articles more frightening […]
Disengaging from The Attention Economy to plug into something/anything else, and then… blogging about it.
BA Fine Art, The Cass, London Metropolitan University final-year student Preeti Shannon Tak speaks to India Nielsen. “I am fascinated by the genetic make-up of everything” London artist Preeti Shannon Tak is in her final year of BA Fine Art […]
BA(Hons) Fine Art, Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art final year student Jack McElroy speaks to Jamie Limond. “It’s about making an artwork that can be enjoyed by people who don’t want to enjoy it as an artwork” […]
As Brexit gives way to Covid-19 as the defining factor shaping all our futures, Chris Sharratt asks lecturers and course leaders about the kind of art this year’s graduates are making. “I think this stuff comes from an anxiety about […]
Some objects I’ve selected for this project have impacted on me more than others and I’ve used this blog to write about it. Today’s objects are a case in point – a tiny, bronze vintage pendant and an even tinier […]
