This tweet generated over 200 replies … with a real split between those who will NEVER fly again and those who are either resigned to the intrinsic use of AFR technologies for travel or think the security afforded by the […]
I spent Tuesday morning making my face into its own dot-to-dot drawing. Using this diagram as a guide (taken from the Wonderworks Museum information panel), I drew dots on my face that align with its form and structure. Places such […]
Part of my research during the residency has been to explore the place of ‘erasure’ and ‘negation’ within artistic activity and within the art work that is researched and created. Within my work, the Everyday is translated and experienced through […]
Paul Eastwood uses video, writing and drawing to conjure things into existence, framing art as a form of social production and cultural storytelling. Throughout last year he worked on the ambitious project Dyfodiaith, which saw him create a new hybrid language from the Brythonic vernacular. Richard Taylor finds out more.
The only imitation is to nothingness – and the mockery of being alive. Upon reading Emil Cioran’s ‘Directions for Decomposition’ from A Short History of Decay, I am reminded of a piece I planned to write on a number of […]
Over the next three years, the organisations will be part of the GUILD project, a comprehensive programme of research, mentoring, tailored support, and infrastructure and space development.
On May 1st and 2nd 2019 I take part in the next major Fruit Routes event at Loughborough University. I’ve been working on Fruit Routes with artist activist Anne-Marie Culhane who conceived and has led Fruit Routes since it’s inception […]
Supermarine Bred Pudding Collective April 2019 Supermarine saw Bred Pudding Collective founding member, artist Russ Ralph, making a Airfix model of a Supermarine Spitfire. The piece is contextualised, explored, documented and distributed by Ralph’s collaborator and co-founder of BPC, Paul […]
The AuT Crone* is an autonomous being, part human, part digital, a new kind of cyborg. The AuT Crone is undertaking an isolated mission into the once “green and pleasant land” to report on how it is being affected by […]
I had my first 1-2-1 rehearsal with Helen Adams through a Skype link which was my first time performing to someone in this way. Originally I wanted to be in a physical space but actually working like this is a […]
As artist Kate Sherman prepares to hang an intriguing new series of work based on driving along the Sussex coast, read an interview with her about her painting:
BA (Hons) Glass and Ceramics, University of Sunderland “At school up to A Level my work was very literal, with no freedom to create what I am passionate about. Much of my work included a base shape, then the surface […]
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The new building in the Fountainbridge area of the city more than doubles the space of the organisation’s previous home, providing improved printmaking facilities, two public galleries, print archive, a shop and café, plus a flat for residency participants.
This will be an ongoing blog around a five-year personal project I’ve obsessively researched, based around a rediscovered family photographic archive. It will culiminate in an exhibition and interventions at the end of 2019 at The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum.
My initial research into automatic facial recognition (AFR) has thrown up a long list of links. This blog is going to be really useful in helping me to select the ones I have the most to learn from. There is […]
New work about facial recognition technologies and whether they will change the face of public protest. A commission by University of Exeter.
A selection of recommended shows, including: Sean Scully’s abstract paintings at the National Gallery, London, Steven Paige’s moving image works at The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, and McDermott and McGough’s The Oscar Wilde Temple, at Studio Voltaire, London.
