I started trading this summer, although my business is still in its early days. But I spent a lot on materials in the previous year, the year for which I’ll now be submitting a tax return. (I was doing some […]
Barby Asante started the year with work featured in ‘Untitled’ at New Art Exchange, Nottingham and is currently part of the ‘Starless Midnight’ show at Baltic, Gateshead. The London-based artist, who was also part of the Diaspora Pavilion in Venice, reflects on a year of career highs and the tragedy of Grenfell.
The Birmingham gallery and artists’ studios was added to Arts Council England’s national portfolio this year, marking a new chapter in its development. Programme director Kim McAleese and associate curator Seán Elder map out the before and after of “a pretty incredible year”.
The London-based artist and winner of the 2017 Film London Jarman Award quotes Shelley, Angela Davis, James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein and more as she reflects on the kind of year it’s been.
My New Year resolution for 2018 is to practice 3D CAD drawing even more so eventually I could move from making a piece of jewellery complete from scratch by hand to introducing 3D printing on some parts of my designs. […]
I’ve recently been preparing materials for the next ‘underlined’ workshop, whilst also reading part of Nato Thompson’s Living as Form (Socially Engaged Art 1991-2011), an interesting book that wrestles with many of the topics also discussed at the Engage Conference 2017 […]
Boxing Day is the best! No prep, no cooking, no housework. Everyone is instructed to help themselves to whatever they want to eat. My sons are game players so there will be an almost ceremonious clearing of the table to […]
When I started this blog I vowed never to miss a Monday. So, in an attempt to stay true to my word I’ll just use this opportunity to wish everyone a happy Christmas. I hope you all got all the […]
Arriving in Perugia I was met off the train by the artist Arthur Duff. He has been living in Italy since the age of nine. His studio and family life are in Vicenza though five days each month he works […]
For me, having ardently studied sculpture, the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo is something of a Mecca. Although the juxtaposition of these classic works with the contemporary world was on my mind already, while visiting I was able to easily picture […]
My initial idea of gauging an artists lot in Italy was beginning to seem redundant. Basically, the situation for artists, more or less, is the same the world over. We are all pursuing an ideal, a conviction or a vocation […]
I visited, along with the composer Nye Parry, the brand new exhibition space at Royal Holloway University, where Digital Forest, my installation in making, will have its first public showing. (From April- July 2018) It was really exciting to see […]
The sound in the installation will be a very important part of it and is being created by sound artist and composer, Nye Parry. In order to explore the kind of sound that will be in the installation and discuss […]
I have been hard at work experimenting in the studio trying to create an experience that replicates the effect of a forest on attention. In the first blog I outlined the aspects of a forest that psychologists believe cause this […]
In this first blog post I will discuss the psychology research already undertaken about natural environments and attention, this research informs the art work I am creating. Attention restoration is linked to landscape art, because studies show that our aesthetic preference […]
It’s been about 6 months since I did my 3D CAD drawing course. Since then I downloaded free Rhino trial programme on my computer and been practising it on my own. At the beginning it wasn’t easy to apply all […]
Day 3 started with more complicated and exciting exercises. We we thought how to build rubover, rex, prong, square, and cabochon settings Day 4 was an introduction to Surface Modelling, including closing open surfaces and combining open objects. We built […]
