My year with the Royal Drawing School is both finished and unfinished, scheduled class commitments sit behind me, commitments to my own practice in front. Immediately ahead lie two in-house drawing days meeting most of the ODDY cohort in person […]
Practice-based Research Project Ongoing – exploring the techniques and methods of Titian and Manet across one Century, via the foil of placing their Master Works together….Titian’s Venus of Urbino beneath Manet’s Olympia.
Starting a blog about stopping art and restarting my art practice from scratch
One week until I deliver my work to the Spring Exhibition … there is a lot to do in that time – practical things to attend to with the actual pieces, and other things to do with the stuff around […]
Curtsying out of 2023 into a New Year … I updated my website yesterday, on the last day of 2023. There’s still a bit to add, but it feels positive to have started the new year with at least […]
I should imagine lots of artists will be thinking about 2023 now. How things went, what could have gone better, what to do next… I can honestly say that I’ve had a good year. I’ve done a lot of travelling, […]
Hello lovely people of A-N, I am writing my first application for a drawing residency, and would very much appreciate any advice on structure, what to include and exclude! Many thanks, Lucy
As my project EcologyNOW approaches its completion, I have been doing some reflecting. Given the experimental nature of the artwork I will in future extend my time contingency for production. I have learned a number of new techniques and worked […]
Serious business… One of the hardest things about being an artist is taking it seriously. By this I don’t mean being a pompous ass. I mean taking the work seriously. Understanding that however you regard yourself, the work has something […]
Review/Preview… Before I do these end of year things, I go back through my diary to remind myself what I have done. But it is not just the list that is useful, but whether things worked out, how I felt […]
Yesterday afternoon I received an email letting me know that my funding application has been approved – I am going to receive project funding from Uppsala City. I am very excited and more than a little surprised by the […]
It’s been a few days now since the exhibition ended and I’d collected my work. It was, for want of better words – an experience. Although I did initially disagree with what was exhibited and how things were set out, […]
I could just keep going, making and drawing and staggering about in the fog of thoughts and ideas as mentioned in the previous post. And I do do this a lot, there is a joy in it, and even purpose. […]
a-n member and film maker Ayo Akingbade reflects on a busy 2023, which included being nominated for the Film London Jarman Award.
Artist and a-n member Rory Pilgrim reflects on being nominated for the Turner Prize, during a year of professional and personal change.
Artist and a-n member Letty McHugh discusses her 2023 highlights including winning the Barbellion Prize for Book of Hours, a commission at the Bronte Parsonage Museum and creating a lighting installation for BD is Lit.
Artist and a-n member Jeanette Barnes discusses her 2023 highlights including winning the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, a solo exhibition in Harrow, and showing work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
