For Cardiff-based, Iraqi-born artist Rabab Ghazoul it’s been a busy year of campaigning against local arts funding cuts and exhibiting internationally. She looks back on a “heartening” and “confusing” year.
I did a drawing of the Secondary School of Applied Arts and made it into a thank you card which we all signed for the two ladies that had looked after us all week.
Hi, as a neurodiverse lady I really struggle with networking and promoting myself. I have managed to exhibit work at 13 different galleries this year through just applying online not having to go out and schmooze. I’m 40 now and […]
Musings on being an outsider in the art world.
Oppenheim uses puppets in some of his artwork. These puppets are moulded from the artists face they are displayed using the stings of control still hanging them from the ceiling. Dennis Oppenheim: Attempt to Raise Hell 1974 The bell hangs […]
Friday 16th of September 2016 Time to fly! Today I am leaving on a direct flight to Shanghai, from London Heathrow. I am taking some tools with me, for the install of the artwork. The passport and the […]
It was Tues 26th April 2016 (previously I had mistakenly remembered it to be May) and I met up with the lovely Morag Ballantyne in my studio at NN Contemporary Art. I have known Morag since 2009 (or was it 2008?), […]
Tuesday 13th of September 2016 The artwork is ready, the structure, the electronics as well as the screenprinted panels are ready too and have been carefully packaged and they are finally ready to go; I am sending them off today […]
I want to try out some more screen prints again, I enjoy this process. Its is a way for me to advertise the puppeteers game, ‘The great hoardings and the publicity neons of the cities of capitalism are the immediate […]
Today I re-discovered Howard Hodgkin. An interview with Andrew Graham-Dixon , plus several articles convinced me that his view of art speak is very similar to mine. I’m no good at art speak . I’m going to use his words, […]
Artist in Residence in the West Highlands with Room 13 International
This year has been wonderful for personal development, business progress with BloomInArt, funding applications, collaborations and involvement within the local community. I struggle to blog but I have attached a few images to visually tell the story of my development […]
2016 started well for The New Art Gallery Walsall, but as it draws to a close the venue is fighting for survival in the face of proposed local council funding cuts. The Black Country gallery’s director reflects on “a funny old year”.
21st October On reflection, I did like how the image became more distorted as it transferred from between one sheet to the other and as they moved slightly in the breeze. This movement had occurred because I had not secured […]
Introducing my research threads and professional development bursary, shadowing The Tetley as they commission new pieces of public art.
as 16 comes closer to slipping to 17, i think back to a piece of graffiti photographed by a friend. it stated that no man was an island and he wanted to be that man. why have i recalled this […]
As outlined in previous posts, the direction that ‘Think, Question, Print’ has taken in the latter stages has been disappointing and frustrating. When I received the funding and began planning the project I aimed to devote a significant amount of […]
In earlier posts I’ve described The Shop and it’s place in both the Nelson community and Think, Question, Print. As a resource it’s been fantastic offering a base during my research trips and a pool of local contacts. In September […]
At the beginning of October I met with artist Helen Oxley in Nelson at The Shop. As Helen lives and works locally I was keen to speak with her about Think, Question, Print to hear her opinion on the work […]
In November, the London-based artist Heather Phillipson won the £10,000 Jarman Award, which recognises cutting edge, experimental artists’ film. She reflects on the highs and lows of a “mountain range kind of year”.
I had hoped to have posted about each of the pieces in the project individually but Christmas socialising, collecting work and struggles with photographic images saw my time just disappear this last week. So I have just put a gallery […]
I’ve been working on the first plate of the new series of engravings since Annina sent me a new microscopy file with more detail. I’m pleased that I’ve found a press large enough to print it on, at Spike Island, […]
in preparing for the close of 2016 i’ve taken some time out to read what i’ve written in this blog. it’s not something i’ve particularly done before. what i can see is the maker residency at the derby silk mill […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I find myself in a small and rare bubble of time, between the shopping and the preparing for Christmas, and the time when I have to start doing things with food and people and presents… […]
