On entering the Turner Prize I was fascinated by the works of the other contenders but my main interest was in Anthea Hamilton. Project for a Door was the stand out piece, originally intended as a doorway into a New […]
A 15 minute Radio 4 programme introducing the economics and ego of marginal gains and the other way: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pw1np
Second set of practice sessions today, both coaching and being coached. Ahead of today’s sessions I have been reading Nancy Kline’s Time to Think: Listen to ignite the human mind. It’s a really simple thing; to think. Running an […]
In the last blog I described the development of jewellery-like supports for a ‘primary, sculptural object’ that would take the form of a body plan of a human, but be made up of “elements of objects that support the management of the […]
The original concept was to take place in the Marrakech Souk located at Jemaa el-Fnaa Medina Square, based on the tourist as ‘an outsider’, dealing and negotiating a journey amongst the highly charged intensely busy environment. The idea based on […]
This exhibition was a big inspiration to me, putting my thought process back on track. What was interesting about walking around the gallery was that all the artists are artists I had previously looked into yet for totally different reasons. […]
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: pocket knife gifts as performance art, visa-dodging artworks for YSP, and LGBTQ histories at British Museum.
I’ve been working on this portrait of Emma Watson for a little while, but I don’t seem to be getting very far with it. I started off painting with brushes, and I just wasn’t enjoying it. So I found some […]
This week’s selection taken from a-n’s busy Events section includes an open exhibition in Somerset, portraiture on the margins in London, and a Q&A with Picasso’s muse in Dartington.
A rich show curated by Simon Lee Dicker with artists Jo Ball, Andy Parker and Simon Whetham
This week, a very busy week. I met more students in the print room, a student on the MA studying fine art, Alexander, came in worked and had a chat. And perhaps strangely, about The Wacky Races, strange in that […]
Last week I went to Kew Gardens to visit The Hive. The Hive is an installation by BDP that was commissioned for the UK Pavilion at the Milan Expo in 2015 and which is now at Kew until November. I wanted […]
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The day I flew back from Jeju, I went straight from Gimpo airport to the first appointment of my last week in Seoul. Every day we had at least one scheduled meeting. Today we went to see Hye Mi, a […]
Artist Donal Moloney’s painting, Cave Floor, is the visitors’ favourite, chosen from the 54 works on show at this year’s exhibition in Liverpool.
I have been trying many different effects to create the back drop using watercolours on A1. Stretching the paper and using lots of water to create a back ground
I wanted to spend some time thinking about how I know that I’ve made a good piece of work (or hosted a good process, if I’m not dealing with an object as an outcome). I went back to the evaluative […]
A new publication by critic and writer John Berger and artist John Christie presents their correspondence of letters and small books, creating ‘artists’ books within a book’. Sarah Bodman finds reading it an enchanting experience.
I collected the latest version of the lightbox yesterday from the framer. I added two new layers of engraved perspex to add greater depth and it worked! With the mirror behind there appear to be 10 layers which create a […]
