I finished a mammoth Diary project update earlier. Scanning, editing and uploading the images is easy and doesn't take me long. However, writing the small bits of blurb about each envelope takes me forever because I see the Diary Project […]
"Do you have an anti-bullying policy?" "What about risk-assessment?" – just more questions I was asked this week. And my response:"We haven’t even got a proper sink yet." What do we do if it starts raining cats and dogs and […]
New toys Much of my residency has been unexpectedly spent exploring online resources new to me. Up till now I have only ever had dial up connection whereas here I have super high speed broadband; it has been a bit […]
Web site goes live. Well, at 1am this morning I get an e-mail from my web designer- ex graduate from Glasgow School of Art- to say that he has uploaded my photographic exhibition "The Children of Craig-y-nos" to its new […]
Some Practicalities On residencies: after a whirlwind tour I am now back and fully focused on my residency again. I have had a break, in part due to the need to attend to a family health related crisis – life […]
And the next thing I am now finishing a German style folio to be presented in the coming weekes to galleries and individuals I have identified during my stay here. The creation of this folio has been a new thing […]
How did we get to this moment….this place that will become the history of humankind? For me, Cultural Fusion “art as philosophy” is very much about a way of being. Rather than looking at the world crisis with apathy it […]
Platform China, Caochangdi Village Found my way to Platform China an art space in Caochangdi Village today. Rather difficult to find [which doesn’t surprise me anymore] – further NE than 798 towards Bei Gao. From four lane expressways to wandering […]
After increasing interest in the business concepts that have helped to shape Cultural Fusion i have decided i have no interest in writing a business plan. As we build our team we will attract someone who has a joy and […]
Today I spent a very interesting and rewarding morning with Professor Ai-Ping Liang, Vice Chair of the Division of Systematic & Evolutionary Zoology at the Institute of Zoology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He kindly agreed to listen to […]
The Hunters & Collectors ‘Meet the Artists’ event last night was really good. After a welcome and introduction by Linda Duffy (Co-curator) each of us spoke about our work in response to Linda’s question about source materials and process. The […]
Ayling & Conroy survey the motives and trends that effect how UK commercial galleries select artists to exhibit.
Charlie Fox’s critical response to the different positions taken up by dealers and curators vs non-object based artists within the art market.
Though I am finding my practice static, in terms of what I consciously consider to be “making work”, I am finding other avenues of expression. This blog for example, started due to a feeling of stasis, could represent a development. […]
This entry relates to Anderby Creek on the 18th and 19th August. Weather: Miserable. Outlook for today: Not great. Location: Anderby Creek. Weekend's Figures: Comments log entries 14, People photographed in the work 23, estimated viewers 68. Anderby Creek is […]
Blog written 26th June, 9.50am Woke up this morning in the cottage in Roundstone feeling very hot. The central heating system seems over zealous! I have become acclimatised to island life and sleeping in a draughty shed. Strangely although my […]
We had a progress meeting yesterday. Up for discussion were plans for our next preparation day. We hope to realise 2 pieces – filming the burial of my typewriter, which has been planned for some time; and marking out a […]
I am astonished this morning to get a phone call from Wales from a woman congratulating me on the new online photographic exhibition”The Children of Craig-y-nos”. The site does not go “live” until next week and some parts are […]
Projects unedited blog by Nick Turvey
19/8 – At the end of the first week I have retreated to a swanky hotel for peace and coffee. One of the dominant themes of this first week has been the search for a bed, which proved to be […]
Blog written just before leaving the island It is strange to be leaving. I have grown accustomed to the pace and way of life here. The relaince on nature and natural cycles of light, dark, wind, rain which become the […]
Yesterday evening we went to the private view of 'Ammunition', a group show of anti-war art at St Margaret's Church in Norwich. Some very powerful, memorable, uncompromising work; but leaving aside the debate as to what would actually happen in […]
The “Children of Craig-y-nos” online book has turned into a public project using new media to tap into the collective memories of a whole community dealing with a taboo disease. I am co-authoring a printed version with Outreach Historian […]
This is the first photograph of Craig-y-nos Castle, built in 1880.( Well, this is where the image should be if only the technology worked…)
I’m spending the next few days catching up with things and assessing progress. Postponing the storywalk while being disapointing because I am not able to realize a larger scale installation right now is also a huge relief as it gives […]
