BA Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art. Working with materials such as plaster, soil and paper, Gwyneth Machin focuses on our relationship with the Earth, from “the visceral feeling in landscape to the oppressive canyons of a cityscape”. Drawing on childhood […]
BA Fine Art Painting, University of Brighton final-year student Charlotte Guérard speaks to Kitty Bew. “The painting becomes an object or an archive of my gestures, something that happened in my body separate to what happened in my head.” Charlotte […]
Part of my Handhold Series, this work is an outcome of my observations of what symbolises human nature, every life and connection. This piece is hand embroidered on French linen and is a contemporary symbol of life and togetherness which […]
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London final-year student Lydia Makin speaks to Isaac Nugent. “I’m trying to find something through the process of painting itself” Moving between abstraction and figuration, Lydia Makin’s paintings brim with energy. Using […]
This was published just before the crisis, about artists using trains and sea routes to reach artists residencies. Now people are either stuck in their residencies or can’t reach them. Here are some pointers for when we can all travel again. Photo by me of Copenhagen Station.
In this profile, Ellen Wilkinson speaks to Izzy Kroese of Manchester-based Shy Bairns. Collective action hit the art headlines at the end of 2019 when that year’s four Turner Prize nominees formed a collective to split the award and share […]
In this profile, Ellen Wilkinson speaks to Jenny Male, Phil Root and Felicia Cleveland Stevens of Bristol-based Caraboo Projects. Collective action hit the art headlines at the end of 2019 when that year’s four Turner Prize nominees formed a collective to […]
In this profile, Ellen Wilkinson speaks to artist, designer and writer Mei Yuk Wong of Manchester-based supportive network The Centre for International Women Artists. Collective action hit the art headlines at the end of 2019 when that year’s four Turner Prize […]
BA Fine Art, MIMA School of Art and Design, Middlesbrough. Jemma Jelf is interested in how we represent ourselves sexually and the way that attitudes to this are determined by factors such as gender, age, sexual orientation, background and religion. […]
BA Fine Art: Painting, Drawing and Printmaking, Carmarthen School of Art, Coleg Sir Gar. Rithika Pandey says of her work: “I am yearning for a spiritual, perhaps enlightened escape.” Working in painting, collage, animation and installations, her approach combines the […]
British artists Jane and Louise Wilson began working collaboratively in the late 1980s when studying at different art colleges in Newcastle and Dundee. Nominated for the 1999 Turner Prize, the Newcastle-born twins are known for their moving image and photographic […]
Casting my own body as a ritualistic form of unerstanding
The greatest polemic that no-one knows about
Working in homemade lye soap and its relevance surrounding the genocide of witches.
Be Careful What You Wish For The rug was pulled from beneath What we thought were steady feet Firmly planted on the ground But we were wrong Our habits crumbled round us The rubble hid the path We couldn’t see […]
I don’t understand what’s happening to my mind. I hate facebook but am lately drawn to it…to almost anything online which just might shed light on what’s going on??? Facebook and Twitter are upsetting me with the vast amount of […]
Fifteen allotment food parcels delivered so far and more to go. Amazing how much harvest can come off the allotment in March and April, traditionally the hungry gap. Nothing in the parcels has been planted this year, that is all […]
Bits and Bobs
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 in order to rejoin […]
Notes from a small town: Wednesday 22 April 2020 Until a few weeks ago I expected to be in Stockholm at this time, not just in Stockholm but at Supermarket Art Fair. Instead I find myself in here the small […]
I had this fantastic opportunity last week to have a curatorial session with iksvy art…… This week, we had a curatorial session with Oxford-based artist Bigtangle: Katie Taylor. She’s a sculpture and installation artist with stunning aesthetics and indigestible subjects: forensic […]
An exploration of forensic identity and what it means to be unable to identify human remains.
