Day 7 am starting to enjoy interacting with studio members – despite hating exposing work in progress – it is definitely one of the things that I feel are being really useful for this residency. – I am truly enjoying […]
The second a-n Assembly event of 2019 took place in Aberdeen with a day of talks, workshops, activities, curry and a film screening.
This week’s selection includes events, publication launches and exhibitions in Eastbourne, London, Nottingham and Chester – all taken from a-n’s busy Events section featuring shows and events posted by members.
Below is a leaflet showing the Art Builders activities over the month of June. All eight schools produced work for these public displays. A very busy time with a lot to organise. I was interested to see how the others […]
Thinking about making something else out of my 19th century metal precipitates a question ‘what are my artefacts made of?’ I’m not sure it matters, but I really want to know. I can guess from looking that they are probably […]
Managed these 2 despite being rather sleepy and the nurses being very efficient and getting through the process rather “quickly.” I sold 3 pieces at the Parallax art fair. May or may not do it again – organising things at […]
A day of beginnings and near endings. Most of the volunteers were starting on extensions to Trenches T and X. The spoil heap for T is now mountainous. I recorded detailed sounds of mattocks, shovels and wheelbarrows to go with […]
The Circuit – A Movement Scenario
Gleaned Fragments from A Discarded Copy of Aristotle’s Poetics Let us discuss the art of poetry in general and its species. Some people use the medium of colour and shape to produce imitations Others do this by means of voice. […]
scale relative to body, to paper, to wall, to space documenting details, zooming in, coming close to the surface, bringing you upclose by talking a still-image, but then as photographic image this detail loses its context, the space around it, […]
Damp, not actually raining at the moment, but mild and humid. Flies are a nuisance. Apparently the biting midge season is later on – but I’m not going to take any chances and cover myself in midge repellant. Not much […]
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Bakani and I played with the image of a blind spot, projecting out of the back of the body, the central spinal line. This spot could vary in height between waist and back of head and in distance from the […]
Drawing as a way of knowing, but also as a way of forgetting, even erasing. Memories – and remembering – are unstable Knowledge is unstable, on shifting ground. Returning to yesterday. Paul (Dance4) watching the drawing process wondered to what […]
Scaling up from small twigs to tree trunks
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a-n The Artists Information Company makes 15 significant new appointments to its Artists Council.
Split – definition: divide, disunite, separate, sever, bisect, partition, tear asunder, cleave, rend Last week I checked on the current state of ‘Bread and Roses’ , an ongoing piece of work which is encased and protected in a plastic box in […]
talking to Paul from Dance4 today in the studio. he wondered what the role of memory was in the activity of drawing from the back drawing backward behind. Traces are left on the wall/paper and the body too retains traces […]
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