This week I managed to quell a steadily growing sense of guilt by making time to meet with Cherry Tenneson (long term collaborator, “Tenneson and Dale”). It was the best kind of meeting – short, but productive. Within 45 minutes, […]
Turner Contemporary, Margate
16 – 25 April 2011
EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL The fourth Eastbourne Festival started this weekend, the beginning of 3 weeks of music, arts and literature events in the town. Many Eastbourne artists, including Blue Monkey Studio, open their houses and studios for the festival and it […]
Just heard today that Glasgow Art Fair has been cancelled. It is being replaced by something called Vault in the autumn which it is claimed will reflect more accurately contemporary art being produced in the city compared to the traditional […]
Weeks in WCA studios 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTqRHQcgdSE
BA FINE ART. A studio based programme that encourages a high level of critical engagement with contemporary art practice, enabling students to explore a variety of media disciplines while developing conceptual and practical skills. Our studios are located at the […]
This week: Our Artist of the Week is Nick Stamp. So what have we been up to…? Well Komedia is up and running! All bands have been confirmed and we are receiving artwork! Posters look great thanks to a Lloyd […]
Last week was the final week of term, and also Events Week. There were some worshops and we had some alumni working in the project space on a short project about being visitors. One of the highlights was a meeting […]
One of things I really appreciate about spending time here (in London) and there (in Stockholm) is how it insulates me from distraction. It is my nature to get involved in things and sometimes this is detrimental to my own […]
I knew this would happen, without the facility to blog from my phone I would leave it too long and be faced with writing a novel to get up to date. I spend a great deal of my time on […]
THIS WEEK Artist of the week Louise Grant. http://louisegrantart.blogspot.com/ Panic has seriously kicked in! With just one week before Easter the workshops are packed and the studios are heaving with all sorts of fellow art wanderers. We have had a […]
This post was actually meant to go into this project blog, rather than “After Art School”, but perhaps I will consolodate both blogs together into one… # 6 [11 April 2011] “Saw some more studios the other day. The average […]
As 2011 BYAM SHAW alumna Eliza Self’s totebag boldly states: “CSM FUCKED MY ART SCHOOL (NOT IN A GOOD WAY)” Last year, Byam Shaw celebrated its Centinary. It was an independent art school until 2003, when it was subsumed by […]
FAFF2011 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Wednesday 27th July 2011Westgate Studios, Wakefield (UK)FREE ENTRY http://fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com/ OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS WHAT: Open call for single-channel screen-based art; film, video, animation (no thematic criteria) WHO: Anyone can submit to FAFF2011; all nationalities, all career […]
The Home Stretch (or grasping at something) The MFA Thesis show installation begins in 9 days. Suddenly the studios are a hive of activity. Across the way my neighbour Ivan is putting the finishing touches to his sculptural works and […]
Ten weeks in WCA studios 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9KD73iTisc
In March Dialogue went to Oxford Brookes University. It was a different type of space than the Halle -and in fact it was on two foyer spaces of the Fine Art Building. We all had take into account the challenges […]
I have contacted a dozen artists on the waiting list (going back to 2008) to see if they are still interested in a space. As you might expect lives have changed, people have moved on – one to London another […]
Forth Valley Open Studios – yes we are all set for another big event this June. Our brochure is with Edinburgh designer Rosy Naylor and we expect it be able to have the rough proofs to go online early next […]
A Plan of just down the road from George Square (the leaf it tagged as me) Mary Cooles’s perfection – alter-image – I entered in to her domain and the painting remained as my disguise. “I am talking to you […]
Starter Studio Programme for Engaged Practice / Knutton Road Studios in Sheffield is looking for artists. Apply now! Visit: http://artspace.org.uk/programmes/starter-studios and engaged practice starter studio INFO-2011 (pdf, 1.4Mb)
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
9 -13 February
