Naoko Mabon, who works under the name Wagon, is an Aberdeen-based freelance curator. This profile includes a video interview recorded at Assembly Aberdeen in which Mabon introduces her work and offers advice to artists thinking about setting up their own initiative.
In the guise of fairy tales, reality comes into focus, we are forced to acknowledge we are the authors of our happy ever after.
It was such a pleasure to exhibit with White Noise projects in The Crypt Gallery, which is a difficult space to show in, depending on the work. Mine seemed quite happy in there and they survived the damp.
The annual award, which offers a first prize of £10,000 towards studio costs, was created in 2013 by restaurateur Mark Hix.
Jo Capper is an artist educator and Collaborative programme curator at Grand Union in Birmingham. This profile includes a video interview recorded at Assembly Aberdeen in which Capper introduces her work and describes the importance of collective action.
I attend ‘ THINKING THROUGH…THE BODY’ a workshop ‘to explore design principles and multi-sensorial movement , seeing, listening, smelling and touching, throughout the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill’, run by Ava Fatah gen. Sheik, architect and researcher from the Bartlett […]
Paintings that document personal relationships and domestic interiors at The Approach in London, a celebration of British sculpture at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester, and an exploration of the perception and treatment of public health at CCA, Glasgow.
the city moves on the sweat of workers smoking mirrors I’m at the dentist’s later today. I’ll be thinking as the drill buzzes of how impossible it seemed after my heart attack, actually even before, that I would be having […]
An exhibition as large as Involuntary México, our show in México City’s Metro Hidalgo Station, cannot come together without the hard work, the sweat, of many people, many workers. Here are just some of them pictured with my long time […]
Eva Kotátkova’s ‘Machine for Restoring Empathy’ installation. An autistic delegate’s perspective What must it be like to trust the universe to keep you upright? What is the cause of neurodivergent anxiety? These seemingly unconnected questions ricochet inside my head as I […]
The weird out-of-body out-of-control feeling continues… There’s a sensory shortfall… I can’t quite see and I can’t quite hear… The air feels thick as I walk through it. I watch my hands draw. I watch my pencil binding those ever […]
Please can someone help me? Have just enrolled fo a-n insurance and need a copy of my insurance schedule to take with me to shows to prove I am insured. Can anyone tell me where I ought to be looking? […]
About being a disabled artist late in life
Interlocution with Udit Thakre, Psychology student at Sheffield Hallam University, September 2019 To begin, we discuss defining dialogue and Udit gives the following: the function of dialogue is to help the other person understand. It is giving something to another […]
I was thinking about how much food is the basis of dialogue. I received the gift of onions and squash from my friend’s allotment and I’d promised potatoes from my veg patch in return. This itself prompted a conversation about […]
I’ve been battling the evil of Universal Credit for the past six months. My son left college in February, and has had no income for six months. See this blog This is before I even contemplate how Universal Credit is […]
