AUDIOBLOG – Please click here In preparation for writing a proposal including an explanation of my work, I am reading “Stuff” by Daniel Miller, and “Material Memories”by Marius Kwint et al. Reading of the latter has again brought me to […]
This image shows a road in the town with lots of shops on. I took photographs of each frame so that I could tell a short narrative with the image. This drawing was done with pastel and it helped me […]
This has helped me to think about how a street in the small town may look, ready for starting to draw the final images for the film this month. I found doing this picture quite useful as after it’s completion […]
The Exeter-based organisation has announced a new programme of commissions, talks, events and projects supported by a major Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award.
Built in 1971 and all but abandoned by the cash-strapped local council in 2013, Turnpike Gallery in the former mining town of Leigh near Wigan, is entering a new stage in its history with the creation of a community interest company to run its programme. Natalie Bradbury speaks to arts manager Helen Stalker as the gallery relaunches with the Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibition.
So it’s been a while since I posted here and that is because due to my father being very unwell and my mentor being in the US for two months I had a gap in my mentoring program but on […]
To continue with the sense I have not lived, that I have not tasted freedom? The idea fills me with horror. Help me see… (When Nietzsche Wept, 2007)
Exploring colour, form and painting techniques in figurative and abstract art.
In the wilds of Suffolk, there is a beautiful unusual house. Contained within that house is a studio and a multi-functional table where ideas are explored and work is developed by artist Les Bicknell. In these spaces paper is cut […]
The current director of Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Art Galleries is expected to take the top job at Tate.
Artist John Walter wins the Hayward Touring 2017 Curatorial Open with his proposal Shonky: the Aesthetics of Awkwardness.
Thread and Word – an introduction. The walk is part of a programme of events organised at Espacio Gallery as part of the Threads exhibition curated by the Artists’ Pool. This exhibition brings together artists from varied creative practices, backgrounds, […]
Marcel Broodthaers uses repetitive objects in his work. I have some work in the exhibition TIDE. an exhibition my fellow students invited me to be part of the work curated by Esme Bamber and Nicola Arnold. But they have indirectly […]
Survey of artists in Wales who received an individual grant from Arts Council Wales between 2013- 2016.
The themes I will be covering will be topics of interest to me or parts of experiences that have affected my own life. The characters will be brave and strong as they will have to come together to fright the evil then it […]
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I have started doing some larger water colour images. I painted on brown paper, as I through that it would make an interesting contrast with the bright paint and darker brown. Using that medium just made it harder to see […]
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Robert Browning In the month between my mother’s death in November and her funeral in December, delayed because of a backed up, (their words) crematorium, I existed in a state of limbo and […]
‘This Is An Art School’ project, offering the public free studio workshops, launches the Tate Exchange Associates programme of over 100 events.
An exciting start to 2017 with my appointment as Artist in Residence at Durham University. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, this appointment will enable me to build on the exciting work currently underway in the En’Light’en project, which has been […]
