Morning of the exhibition – its pouring down with rain, cold and we are not sure what is happening, our contact arrives late with the key and we have to carry the work from the studios to the prison, some […]
As a bit of a treat to end the week we were taken by coach to visit a glass making factory. It was very cold and grey for the whole trip, but we got to see some of the Czech […]
As part of my MA I was offered the opportunity to work on a one week residency in Uherské Hradiště Prison. This trip was not for everyone, but with my keen interest in Urban Exploring and flagrant disregard for health […]
Alone in a wine dark sea WIP 1x1m traditional pigments and oil painting media, hand mixed Having spent the largest share of last year working in indigo with all its rich potential for tone and its heavily laden role within […]
With scrutiny of the government’s Brexit plans intensifying as Theresa May’s end of March deadline for triggering Article 50 to leave the EU gets nearer, artists are responding to the uncertain climate in a variety of ways. Pippa Koszerek, who as an artist is herself involved in Brexit-related events, takes a look at some forthcoming projects.
Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, until 12th February, 2017 Fig. 1 The Peak site plan, Hong-Kong, 1982-1983, 11038 x 4961 cm, Zaha Hadid I was keen to see this exhibition of Hadid’s early paintings and […]
Material can seem disconnected to the human, it has a way of disassociating itself, we give it life only to then shut it down, we divorce it because it never truly belongs to us, it becomes possession, because it’s outside. Yet it speaks just like […]
This week’s selection includes the art of taxidermy in London, contemporary works inspired by Georgian painting in Bath, and Turner’s watercolours in Edinburgh.
We forget material has agency, it has a life we forget it because we rely on visual/s. Yet this is the very thing that can and does deceive us.
Using sections of the backdrop artwork I have made a collection of business cards. Not long now……. Show Opens 2nd February at the Saatchi Gallery, London.
The final blog post for the ‘Armchair Artist Residency’. The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ blog. Blog number six, February 2014: In a cardboard box on a shelf in the museum storerooms there […]
The planning of the trip to the Czech republic had come about not long after I had the privilege of a guided tour of Gormleys show in White Cube Bermondsey, (see separate blog) and the concept of the body as […]
Carlo works with the modification of space using light. Handling light and shade like substances, using electro luminescent surfaces and optical fibres in a context of total darkness. ‘The concept of transmutation of the environmental, transversable space…’ https://www.saatchiart.com/art/-Permeable-Spaces/74643/560820/view http://www.carlobernardini.it/
How the idea of light sculpture came about…
A candid look at what happened after graduation from the safety of art school. As an art school graduate I was at one point part of the artworks system – albeit at undergraduate level. In wondrous naivety I used to […]
The audience queued outside the side entrance of the bus depot in the early evening dusk, we were led in as a group and filed along a corridor of side rooms with projection pieces and printed posters that seemed to […]
I was very impressed with the professionalism of the event from the brochures and marketing material to the curation of the exhibition it was all done very well, I presume by the curation studies team. The basement featured video and […]
The British 8 was a series of exhibitions, talks and performances across 4 venues in Norwich, and I visited on the same day as the MA show. I was really interested in the way they had set up the exhibition […]
My thoughts and reflections on the Norwich British Art Show 8 and the Norwich Art School MA Show 2016
Blog number five of six. The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ blog. Blog number five, January 2014: I was told that there was an ancient Egyptian mummified human head somewhere in the museum […]
The walk is part of a program of events organised at Espacio Gallery as part of the Threads exhibition curated by the Artists Pool. I have had work selected for the exhibition, titled Quipu. This piece documents one of the […]
Thread and Word
