The Brewery Arts Centre 30th April 2010 Preview night of the exhibition and it’s underway – that cocktail of people and art brought together in one place for a brief encounter. Always unpredictable in it’s results and, seen from a […]
I dropped Robert Luzar and his lovely wife off at the station yesterday afternoon after an amazing weekend of drawing, performance, previews and Pimms… and squirty cream and scones. Robert had arrived on Friday to install his show and Saturday […]
i was at Marine Studios in Margate for their First Friday event, which on this occasion was about natural navigation, – navigating without maps basically and reading the natural world for signs – where I bumped into Rob Turner of […]
The builder accidently snipped the telephone cable yesterday so we lost the internet. I could cope without the phone but I’d got an ongoing trail of emails to deal with and… aargh! We now have a temporary fix so all […]
Forth Valley Open Studios Well, It’s over and the consensus is that it was an astonishing success – given the short time span we had to work in. The benefits are too numerous to mention from educational, and financial to […]
London London London! And taking stock The shock of returning from the residency is beginning to wear off. It has been so hectic I can’t believe a month has already passed since I got back. Initially I found it hard […]
Art of Digital London is an Arts Council England programme designed to help London Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) develop strong strategies for connecting with audiences via technology.
Hooray for a much more productive day. I ended yesterday with a late night wrestle in the studio and skyped my other half for a bit of sanity. Too much alone time facing off a piece of work and I […]
We are looking forward to the 3rd in the series of open discussions on contemporary art at HMS – this time focussing on drawing which ties in with the PV of Robert Luzar’s exhibition. Aprroximations To… SUNDAY 4th July 2010 […]
My painting ‘Not A Stag Party’ is currently on show at the Backlit Studios alongside work by studio members and associates. The blurb advertises the show as a members exhibition so you can imagine the confusion when my name was […]
After a sweaty, muggy commute dragging wheelie suitcase, backpack, handbag and massive sketch-book first to BH photo store (the battery was a dud) and then up to East Harlem to meet the other artists, followed by a 2 hour drive […]
Self imposed exile in the library over the past month. Writing essay and continual rewrites. Feels almost there, I think. Spent too long looking at it and need some time out. Change of exhibition plans: using smaller scale prints of […]
Striving and surviving in the do it yourself art world; curating, managing members, self-publishing. Richard Taylor talks to three recently founded artists’ groups about doing it ‘DIY’, progress so far and what the future holds.
My newletter has arrived, that’s right people, with pictures, jazzy boxes, links and everything. My friend Tammasyn Gambell ( www.tammasyngambell.com ) has a studio in cockpit arts and she sent me hers a while ago which was gorgeous and smart […]
Tomoko Takahashi from July to September at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. That’s all the excuse I need to get down to that part of the world again. I suppose, as I am in the area, I could […]
AIR member Rosalind Davis, mixed media painter and graduate from the RCA, discusses her thoughts on the new coalition government and how cuts to arts funding will affect her personally.
The aim of this blog is to share my experiences of collaboration and over the coming weeks, I am going to use it to think through issues that have come up during various attempts at collaboration and share them with […]
Again a busy 5 or so days! I attended the animation workshop at Leamington Spa art gallery that i have mentioned before and really enjoyed it, it was more of a 3D digital modeling workshop than an animation workshop but […]
Thanks David, Abbi and Rob for your comments. Partner is back at work now, 6 weeks since falling ill. Still needs an afternoon nap, but since she works school hours, that’s possible. Amid the flurry of urgent work callouts I […]
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
5 – 10 June 2010
I have been trying to clamber atop the mountain of paperwork as I mentioned, my to do list however has gotten out of control and its looking like I may never paint again! On the other hand I have worked […]
