Jo Hodges and Robbie Coleman’s collaborative and multi-disciplinary practice questions our relationships with environment and landscape. Sally Davies talks to the Dumfries and Galloway-based artists about working in, and interpreting, rural contexts.
Read the first 10 conversations in our 40 Years 40 Artists series of interviews with artists who feature in a-n’s archive.
Anne Bean recalls co-founding Bow Gamelan Ensemble and “resonant living and working situations” in 1980s Mexico and Poland.
Today was the first Art Lab of 2020! We had 3 presentations already booked otherwise we would’ve moved to the new format which is 2 presentations and then a kind of ‘marketplace’ informal/unstructured show and tell where anyone can bring […]
Peak is an arts organisation based in the Black Mountains in Wales that works with artists and communities to respond to the rural environment. Peak’s Creative Director Rebecca Spooner speaks to Rosemary Shirley about the organisation’s contemporary arts remit for making and showing art in rural places.
Artist Morag Colquhoun, whose practice includes sculpture, photography, installation, performance, video, textiles and curatorial practice, discusses the benefits and pitfalls of working in a rural context.
My piece Chemo Day Drawing 13 June 2019 is currently touring as part of the The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 exhibition which will be on show in The Chainstore at Trinity Buoy Wharf from 18 January to 1 February 2020. […]
Continuing our series of articles on the Coventry Biennial, which each of the eight participants on the programme submitted following the November workshop, here’s Isaac Nugent’s 1,000-word feature. 7. Coventry Biennial by Isaac Nugent “It could have gone horribly wrong.” […]
As a task following on from the first workshop in Coventry, each of the writers on the programme was asked to produce a 1000-word feature on the Coventry Biennial. After feedback and a light edit, this is India Nielsen’s article. 6. […]
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including a major retrospective of Bridget Riley at the Southbank Centre, London and a new video installation by the ZouZou Group at Ikon, Birmingham.
Daily log
Daily log
Flask conversation / dialogue diagram
A pint glass half full (or half empty) with (euro) “slummy”. As in – “This machine only takes coins. Got any (euro) slummy, mate…?”[1] Non-denominational; a stretched cling-film ceiling (or floor) between myself and you – “slummy”. Cling-film, a temporary […]
Some time ago, during November, I tried making some prints at home, first making monoprints on a gelatin plate, then small screenprints. I had all the necessary tools and materials in a cupboard. The amazing thing was that it was […]
Now you know I love to work to music and with music… but some days are best served silent. Yesterday and today are such days. I used to say to students “trust the process, something will happen to make a […]
‘Keep faith in love, friendship and democracy & never surrender your human light to the darkness of demagogues.’ The above quote was taken from a new year’s tweet by the late Harry Leslie Smith, an activist for the poor and […]
Some fresh tasty vegetables [talent], a dash of hot sauce [ideas], knob of butter [agency], a glug of ageing wine [experience], a crumble of stock [collaboration]? Then there is the cooking … time, space and don’t get me started on […]
These days I mainly work small: restrictions of having to work in a chemo chair; working at home when the weather is miserable and I don’t want to risk catching a cold… But as well as these practical reasons working […]
Blueberry tea conversations.
10 years ago. Still on with Blah Blah Blah. Installation at South Square Centre, Thornton, January 2010.
Flask conversations…
I making a contribution to FLASK publication inviting people for conversations with their flask of favourite beverage. Conversations about flasks, art, life, etc. If you’re up for a chat (Huddersfield/surrounding areas) get in touch!
