The Jerome Robbins Dance Archive is housed at the New York Public Library for the performing arts. Part of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts including the NYC Ballet theatre and Opera house. The dance archive is the largest archive […]
Looking to meet and talk to other artists who work with dance and performance in galleries TBA festival was a great place. The C.E.L. artists (Creative Exchange Labs) featured two Artists practice I have been interested in for a while, […]
Images from A.K. Burns 4 screen installation A Smeary Spot. Consisting of 3 large projection screens, a monitor with rolling credits, script/poster handout and sand/resin sculpture. A Smeary Spot created a dark staged environment for an audience to explore the […]
As part of PICA’s programme at TBA they overlap a residency programme called Creative Exchange Labs featuring artists Local – International with a emphasis on promoting discussion. These paired up 2/3 artists to discuss similarities on practices and concerns. Through […]
Mocking up the mantle piece, using painted card to see the relationship between the vessels and the watercolour painted back drops. So many variations. What to choose? Enjoying this part of the process, a welcome relief from throwing in the studio.
So my show’s been and gone, very happy with how it looked and how it was received but now feel strangely detached and uneasy in a period of reflection. Taking time to really look and think about my work is […]
Hot on the heels of the closure of Inverleith House gallery in Edinburgh comes the news that Glasgow Sculpture Studios is to end its exhibition programme. Chris Sharratt sees worrying signs for the resilience of the visual arts sector in Scotland.
First a big thank you to a-n for making me a featured blogger on instagram last week https://www.instagram.com/anartistsinfo or @anartistsinfo. It was fun to see the posts appear and check out all the likes, follow some new people and gather some […]
This project started life as a printmaking project and the printmaking process informs the way I approach the subject matter of T-cells. When I look at the files of the T-cells, the details of the nucleus and the visual data, […]
I was initially struck by the beauty of Annina’s graphs used to analyse the characteristics of the thymic epithelial cells. Their beauty belies their function and cry out to be reappropriated. Annina Graedel: The graph underlying the video “AIRE” is […]
The second of of 50 Collages Before Christmas is also the second of Abstract Drawings for Dummies. In some ways it is even more explicit than the first with greater description of what I have in mind and think while […]
Print three. This piece has a reference back to the world but is a functional object of another kind, a record. The first two print runs were made by the thing that produced the means to create the image. In […]
This is a series of interviews conducted as part of the Critical Perspectives series at Teesside University Fine Art
November is a busy month for me. I was fortunate to have 3 small art pieces selected for the 2016 ING Discerning Eye exhibition taking place 17 – 27 November at the Mall Galleries in London, SW1. In addition I […]
when returning to a process i’ve not gone through for a while there are always moments of realisation about the subtleties i need to get back. this morning was the realisation that i’d not synchronised the clocks on the […]
I’m a Fine Art student at the University of Suffolk and I’m now in my third year. This blog is going to explore and document each of my projects that I’m developing for my studio practice, to help me critique and understand my focus studies.
As part of Dangerous Conversations, a process of exploring my practice as an artist through the themes of risk, fear, and change, I attended a series of workshops with Florence Peake the brilliant dancer, choreographer, visual artist and teacher, at […]
Earlier this year I went on a week-long retreat as part of the process of exploring fear and risk within my practice as an artist. I stayed in a small wooden hut in Epping Forest. It had running water but […]
This year’s Compass Festival of live art features 18 events, many of which have walking at their heart as performers and participants infiltrate and interact with the city around them. Lydia Ashman finds out more from the festival’s director and some of the artists taking part.
Having been quite excited by some of the connections which have come out of Parallax I have been knocked sideways by a horrible bug, and stuck with a fuzzy brain and floppy body, which leaves me challenged by a few […]
This week’s selection includes reverberative play and DIY mechanics in London, a group show with Andy Warhol in a railway arch in Glasgow, and new paintings in Nottingham.
Aller bonfire 2016. Top build. Great spirit. Community working together. 42 foot high St Pauls with tower, London Bridge, River Thames and buildings. 4 Days hard graft. Funding £0. Absolute best burn yet. Super hot. Great days. For me, better […]
