As part of their Bank Job project in Walthamstow, Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn have printed ‘money’ and bonds as a way to write off personal debt in the community. Artist Alistair Gentry, who has been involved in the initiative, talks to them as they prepare for a symbolic ‘Big Bang’ event in the City.
Using the black wool in the studio (washed and carded from raw fleece) I have been investigating its properties for felting, making some simple bowls with the black wool on the inside and wool dyed with rhubarb root and with […]
Delighted to have been elected to the Board of the Royal Society of Sculptors and am looking forward to my first board meeting this summer.
For the next couple of months we’ll present a weekly pick of degree shows across the UK as they open to the public, selected from the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2019 listings. This week’s selection includes final-year shows in St Helens, Swansea, Chichester, Worcester, Dundee, Edinburgh, London and Kent.
At an awards presentation in Venice Lithuania won the prize for best national presentation while Jafa was voted the best participant in the Ralph Rugoff-curated exhibition, ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’. The award for promising young artist went to Haris Epaminonda.
A selection of recommended shows, including: Emii Alrai’s diorama-inspired installation at Two Queens, Leicester; Michael Fullerton’s new paintings at Koppe Astner, Glasgow; and Instagram-infused video installation with Rhona Foster and Meg Jenkins at Embassy, Edinburgh.
The weather has been pretty amazing, considering we were all expecting rain and gales. Bright starts to almost every day so far.This morning, it was not only bright but much warmer so I headed off down to the shoreline at […]
Introduction to a new practice pilot project.
And there it is… Big Red Shiny Button pressed. Except it is none of those things. I’m thinking of suggesting to Arts Council England that they make it so. It always feels momentous. The immediate feeling is one of relief […]
The Textile Centre in Blonduos The Textile art residency is held in an old girls’ school in Blonduos in the north of Iceland on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. Within the building there is accommodation for residents, a kitchen, […]
After an evening getting to grips with the orientation challenges of Venice and arriving at the Cymru yn Fenis party when the bar was dry (!), my first day at the Venice Biennale was a full one. I visited most […]
I’ve run out of the big beautiful paper, and can’t at the moment afford to get any more. But that’s ok, I think… it gives a natural break in order to assess if that is in fact what I need. […]
I run midnight walks along the river Thames and I am looking to find out how many people do midnight walks and were do you go? Are they open to the public ? Mine is on 22 June 2019 at […]
This week I printed a series of photopolymers and monotypes onto a light weight Kozo paper. The plan was to layer up similar and the same images, but shifted, looking for the liminal portrait. A portrait that both ‘is’ and […]
We come from different textile disciplines, but our work intersects with concerns about sustainability, the natural world and exploring cultural influences. Jennifer Jones – Complex hand-weave structure and fiber combinations producing three- dimensional woven cloth, conceptually concerned with environmental destruction […]
This post discusses some practicalities of preparing the ground for painting. I’ve been working with the motif of a figure mopping a corridor. Specifically, a female cleaner mopping a floor. It’s a prosaic subject: a solitary figure wielding a brush […]
