Jo Longhurst: “I like slow looking. I try to make work to slow people down”
Artist and a-n member Jo Longhurst speaks to Ellen Wilkinson about the challenges of making art around unseen disabilities.
Artist and a-n member Jo Longhurst speaks to Ellen Wilkinson about the challenges of making art around unseen disabilities.
I did an Artist Tour at the Lapworth, I was really nervous having never done one before but it went so well. I discovered it suits me much better than the formal set up of a PowerPoint presentation in front […]
So since I’ve been to Athens, I’ve connected with a lot more artists…. adding the ones I’d met or whose work was shown , on to my instagram account . I don’t use a website anymore as I initially had […]
I find myself observing again. I draw the three hag stones in a variety of media, from all angles, in a variety of scales: Small: with a Pentel p209 propelling pencil. This gives a smooth and consistent line. Smooth and […]
I have also been developing Shutterbug, which comprises a small motorised camera mounted on a raspberry pi. It wakes up every 10 minutes and takes 50 random pictures of its surroundings and stitches them together into a digital collage of what […]
Gary Snyder writes of art and performance in relation to ideas of gift exchange (Back on the Fire 2007) and to me this captures the spirit of our Art Lab. This first image shows jam, made by Eve Thomas from […]
The Tension Gallery Art Prize is awarded annually to selected graduating MA students at Central Saint Martins, UAL London. The selectors for 2022 were artist & director of Tension, Ken Turner and artist & Art Monthly magazine consultant, Matt Hale.
Ken Turner’s solo show at Tension in July 2022
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A solo exhibition of silkscreen prints and weaving frippery by Sharon Paulger.
July 2023
Awarded Regional Prize Midlands at the ING Discerning Eye 2023 at the Mall Galleries in central London with the pencil drawing next to me.