Collection of woody vocabulary and a literary reference Lots of wonderful words and phrases jump out of thinking around wood. I mentioned the veneer metaphor before but more than this many words connect to trees and wood in their origins. […]
My main contact with CN4M is the culture pool coordinator, Sue. We set a deadline for all the applications of 15th October and everything is being delivered at her desk as I write this. I may not get to see […]
"It could be alcohol poisoning or post exhibition malaise" I’m feeling a little tired. I woke up this morning in the King’s Cross Travelodge and stared at the space on the opposite wall where a painting had once hung. […]
LAST PREPARATION DAY We have had our last prep. day. We hauled pallets from the garden centre car park – they may be the start of our shelter which we will build next week. However we decided to put up […]
ANOTHER PRIZE AWARDED Autumn has arrived on the allotment. Leaves, flowers, vegetables are dying back. The juice is retreating into the earth. I was struck by the beauty of some deaths. The dead heads of the artichoke stand proud, strong, […]
Bernard Charnley-AirSpace Studio Artist Bernard Charnley has been a studio artist at AirSpace since the very beginning. To find out about Bernard's work please see his website www.bernardcharnley.co.uk
September 28th Sign on dotted line so Am Artist in Residence with Southern. Leave a word hidden in the foyer….. DREAM Go into London to meeting with Edward Lear Foundation and Architects for NDACA about the commission for a sculpture […]
Contents include: Crafts strategy examined plus Focus on rural arts initiatives. Alex Hartley’s photographs draw attention to potential for architecture. Jerwood shortlist: drawings by Kerry Phippen, Adam Sunderland and Holly Atrum. New a-n+AIR Public and products liability insurance for AIR members, plus Interface site launched. PDF version [size 8,655 kb]. Requires pdf reader.
Country living puts a spotlight on artistic activity in rural locations. Rosemary Shirley’s opening essay explores her frustration with the dominance of urban culture and assumptions often made about artistic practice that takes place outside of it. She highlights practices […]
Burgess Park, London
15 September 2007
Whitechapel Gallery, London
6 September 2007
Matts Gallery, London
19 September – 18 November 2007
The week after getting back from Bombay was fully occupied with construction and painting. The work I am making is based on something called the Cornsweet illusion, which reveals how the brain determines what we see, not our eyes. It […]
By Sunday, the work was near enough completion that I felt able to take the day off. With Joanna Hoffmann, and a scientist with whom she has been working, I went to the Aksherdam temple. I was a bit reluctant, […]
The electricians have finally finished and handed over the certificate (and the bill). Well, not quite. We’ve decided the exhibition area needs more light. We can’t afford anything sophisticated, just bigger flourescents and doubles instead of single tubes. Sheila has […]
Yannick Dauby in Taiwan I have been in touch with Yannick Dauby again, a French sound artist who I met through the phonography.org elist. He is giving a sound talk at the Taipei Artists Village any day now. He also […]
Projects unedited blog by Vicki Coster
Today we have discussed dates for our first exhibition For Future Presentation and are awaiting confirmation for dates in October time. We are in the process of developing the BaseNorth logo and hope to get the press release out by […]
This week …… Anna Puhakka This past week I have been working on the appearance of the game. Surprisingly this has led me to start painting again, a part of my practice I had been overlooking for several years. I […]
During my stay in Bombay I had a skype conversation with Julienne Dolphin Wilding, an artist now based in Barcelona, and a human being of rare integrity and good sense. I was telling her about my plans for the Open […]
Abishek had given me a list of Bombay galleries to check out. Staff at the hotel seemed clueless as to their location, even when provided with their addresses. However, at the first one I managed to find, I fortunately met […]
It's strange to feel so scattered and disjointed…I'm wondering if it's at all possible or necessary to thread together the me that left a year ago with the me that is currently grasping at a present day normality. Not that […]
The "Children of Craig-y-nos" project started less than a year ago as a blog, an attempt to piece together 40 years of missing Welsh history. I am amazed at how it has all snowballed with the final focus being (a) […]
On our last preparation day 3 weeks ago, using canes lashed together with string, I tried to make a 3D drawing of the shelter we hope to build. The result was a wonky bamboo frame which wouldn’t stay upright long […]
Xi’an [the definition is ‘west’, ‘safe place’] and Xianyang [‘sunshine’] We arrived in Xi’an early, and Daoxuan picked us up and ferried us to Xianyang, about 20 minutes down the road by car. During our stay we met up with […]
