
International Print Biennale
Various, Newcastle upon Tyne
18 September – 20 November 2011
Various, Newcastle upon Tyne
18 September – 20 November 2011
So it feels like life is starting to come together up north in ways that I had hoped, with the new job and flat moves happening in the next few weeks. For the various freelance working I have been doing […]
Popped into the studios very briefly today. I had been planning on spending the afternoon there but I’ve been to ill to do much really and with a sick son at home I wanted to get back and see him. […]
Ten years on The other day I received an email from Glasgow School of Art asking alumni who had graduated ten years ago what they were doing now. It stopped me in my tracks. Was it really ten years since […]
The tax office (Swedish) called while I was on my way to the supermarket. They needed to ask a couple of simple questions to approve my application to register my company. The first was to clarify the type of artistic […]
Went over to the Arena Studios for a few hours today. Someone kindly let me in, but I got my swipe card today so they won’t have to again. I brushed my studio floor, added some more of my own […]
Headed to the M50 district yesterday – the Art District in Shanghai, near shanghai Railway station. It was onnce an old textile mill but now the complex houses galleries, studios and art spaces. Its a strange mix, some good a […]
Article five part two…. I know all too well from my own visual arts practice that if left to one’s own devices, it is easy to spend a lot of time saying them same thing and wondering how to get […]
Alexis investigates, article five: A conversation with Siobhan Davies about dance thinking Recently choreographer Siobhan Davies has seemingly turned curator, commissioning four new collaborations between dancers and visual artists, the results of which are being shown in an exhibition titled […]
New blog for a new start. I found out this week that I’ve been appointed to one of the Directors posts at my studio, Arena Studios and Gallery in Liverpool. In 2012 we have our 30th anniversary as a succesful […]
I found out today that I can start a month long residency at Arena Studios in Liverpool, with the use of a studio space and with an exhibition at the end of the residency (begining of December). I’m travelling over […]
On Tuesday I’m going to see one of the Stockholm City’s artists’ studios. The city has a number of studios that periodically come up for rent. It’s highly unlikely that I will have a chance of getting this studio as […]
Just finished the 5th Open Studios weekend at Harrington Mills. The atmosphere was different this year. In a good way. We were more relaxed. The opening was as busy and energetic as in previous years and we had a steady […]
My blog is slowly fading into the ether. I’m not sure thisis the best way to go. But the work of establishing the studios remains unfinished until the case is resolved. To date we are waiting for disclosure from the […]
Text and sound, putting the two together it seems logical. To read aloud, to sing and hear the echo of existence, recentley inspired by early 90’s nostalgia the likes of Suede, Brett Anderson lyrics repeat on me in the morning […]
So my intention to write a blog about my move to Manchester, has not quite been sustained as anticipated, but there is plenty of time and room for improvement in the coming months. That old conundrum that when you have […]
Through a letter published in the Sunday Telegraph, 2 October, a consortium of arts bodies including a-n called for inclusion of arts and culture in National Planning Policy Framework.
Manchester-based artist Jacqueline Wylie is researching ways in which artists use social media.
Andrew Bryant discusses a new series of events that take Artists talking ‘out of the virtual and into the actual’.
I have started this blog because of a suggestion from a friend who also writes a blog. I hope the process of documenting what I’m doing and my thoughts about it will be useful to me in someway. STUDIO I […]
So we finally have a poster image to post up! Since Ross’s last post on here we have managed to grab some time in my studio here in Edinburgh. Whilst drinking fragrant Turkish coffee the conversations began to loosen and […]
Well, great news – have just got of the phone to organhaus after a week of trying to get in contact. They are an art space in Chongqing – I am hoping to spend a month or so there – […]
I have just re-designed my website and something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is start a blog. Somewhere I can show work in progress and just keep people updated on what I’m up to. Right now I’m […]