Settled In It’s been over a month since my last post. In that time, although I have been beginning to make new work, I decided to slow down a little in order to fully settle back into to life in […]
Open Studios finished last weekend, I could not make it as I work every other weekend, but Janie who studio I spared with said she had lots of visitor more than the weekend before. I had some good feedback which […]
Visitors to my studio during Forth Valley Open Studios who came expecting to buy work were in for a shock. They found themselvles immersed in an interactive artwork with themselves as the “star”. So, what was it it? Well, research […]
My neighbour’s music is once again seeping through the brick wall as if it were nothing more than a sheet, but as soon as I started to stir some indignation, I realised that this time it’s a live Peter Gabriel […]
The show is now installed. My paintings are hung in a ‘room’ in one of the large, light-filled studios near the main entrance of the School. The etchings are in a mixed display, in a gallery of four studios in […]
Feeling less than chipper today. I thought that the studio would be buzzing this week as they have an opening and summer party on Saturday, its like a morgue. It is difficult to get to know who the other artists […]
Alice Bradshaw talks to Nick Fox about cuts in art education, the John Moores Painting Prize, balancing work between two cities, and being called a painter.
Putting together a proposal for another outing for Offcutter I came across some photos I’d taken of the morning sun on the kitchen wall. Initially they were natural – leaves, glass, bit later I put objects in the path of […]
Off to the Market Square again to make pompoms. The project has moved on a bit and we are now aiming to make 15 giant ones to create an impact. As part of the whole project we have succeeded in […]
What a day! This morning I arived at Southam’s Cardall Collection to install my show to discover that the window the work was made for had been smashed over night, not a big hole but a hole never the less! […]
This week I visited the BIAD, School of Art Degree Show, I was really impressed! The production levels, contexts worked within, content and general presentation of some (if not MOST) of the work was outstanding! Much better than last year […]
With the Launch of CANNED Magazine Issue 3Collaboration, Exchange and Collective Action (May, 2012), I’ve had a lot to think about in regards to the role of art as a locus for exchange, conversation and, occasionally, political action. Working on […]
Are Great weekend 65 visitors to the open studios. I had some very good feedback about my new piece, which his always good. Doing the open studios for me always give me a boose of confidence as it’s away of […]
Villa Bondi, Marina di Pisa
1 – 10 June 2012
Since Wednesday the dismantling of the studios has been attacked with a real vigour that’s buoyed us all up, but it’s wearing off a little now. I’m tired. Poor Xanthus is exhausted by the amount of work still left to […]
Tate Britain, London
30 April 2012 – 31 March 2013
Beginnings… We’ve had a few meetings already, but for me, it feels like this project is only just starting. I’ve never been too good at, as my dad calls it, “walking whilst chewing gum”; I’ve had a few other projects […]
Now in a more focussed mood: Veronica Sekules will give a talk about The Culture of The Countryside on the 13th June; a subject we at the Project Space are often musing on. In what way does our position in […]
This blog has been rather neglected, as my time has been so much taken up with show preparation. I now have three large paintings ready to show, and three etchings at the framers. Last week we packed up our studios, […]
In 1999 John Carson made a passionate call for a more rigorous approach to arming graduating art students with knowledge of where their work and practice fitted within the wider world and interfaced with audiences. Sarah Rowles, commissioned by a-n to research the state of professional practice provision on BA fine and applied art courses, offers a perspective on the situation now.
I have just sent out the first instalment of my mailing list! It read as follows: Welcome to the first instalment of the Ryan Hughes Projects Mailing List! I’ve got a few things going on over the next few months […]
I don’t have room for uncertainty. I’ve been through enough of it in my life and nothing rankles with me more. That’s why I need a plan, or a list, or some kind of diagram. And that’s why the last […]
Here, we profile a selection of courses offering postgraduate level study for artists seeking to develop their practice further within creative, supportive and critically challenging environments.
