So many things at once and all a priority. Taming the garden to display some pieces ready for North Yorkshire open Studios, making the work and at the same time spending lots of time working through the snags on my […]
It’s the final countdown! The BIAD School of Art degree show will be up and being assessed in just 2 and a half weeks, 3 years of work are drawing to a close. This week I have used a nail […]
I have had a very busy, mixed, few months. Since the beginning of January I have been working almost exclusively on a single piece of work. I took a few weeks out to concentrate on something else, but in essence […]
The Space Gallery, Stroud
6 – 11 February 2010
The car park is full of fancy cars at the Harrington Mills belonging to visitors of the exhibition by furniture manufacturers. It’s a shame there can’t be some dialogue between us and the directors because I am sure there is […]
Ahead of next months open studios I am in the midst of a clean up. What should’ve been a simple tidy and vac has become a complex yet satisfying furniture and tool sort. First to go is the oak table […]
Tuesday, 11 May 2010 Peril in Paris Another message from my companion I now truly fear for her safety! Her hotel is perilously close to the Quartier Pigalle a district of Paris with little to recommend it except that Picasso […]
Hotbed Press staff and members were wonderfully helpful last week, http://www.hotbedpress.org and I got my screen made and some prints done and started trying out some ideas. I think I am going to show a series of samples, rather than […]
The order for my Professional Practice proposal, and the documentation was: 1-Organise an exhibition of my work 2-Make a website 3-Post on the a-n blog The order that I will present tomorrow at the assessment is: 1- A-n blog 2- […]
We have a case management conference meeting with a circuit judge for an hour in July. Apparently this is unusual as 1/4 an hour with a lower ranking judge is the norm. People keep asking me if I don’t feel […]
The studios have been cleared out and the building of spaces and the decorating has begun. Leaving little time to work on the actual art thats going to be shown. I’ve been working for a number of weeks with the […]
I have just picked up the brochures for the Surrey Arts Open Studios I am taking part in at the beginning of June. I am slightly worried that the image used to best represent my work is currently in New […]
I owe an apology! A whole week without update on how the Exquisite Corpse private view and first week went. I have been battling with a funding application ( more weeping and comforting tea at hand, thank you also Emily […]
I’m back to drawing and making which feels like the best thing since sliced bread and I can officially say that I am finished with the catalogue (fingers crossed). I’m unsure of my latest piece, but I do know that […]
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is currently showing an exhibition based on ‘the artist’s studio’ and has invited artists across East Anglia to upload photos of their studios to a flikr photo stream. I think this is a really […]
Less than two weeks left to finish work. Yikes! I have 4 paintings left to do and then I need to decide which ones, if any need re-doing or further work on them. I have decided to re-paint the very […]
Richard Taylor talks to an artist with added arts professional experience about the role of the studio in research-led practice and the importance of cultural discourse.
Startling architectural interventions, large-scale touring exhibitions and ambitious commissions will transform the city of Norwich 7-22 May through Norfolk & Norwich Festival (NNF10) as it presents its first ever visual arts programme.
Holy friggin wotsits! The website is up! Still needs to be added to , but at last we have the holding page live http://www.coregallery.co.uk/ I cant tell you how thrilled I am ! The banner ,has also arrived today! Hooray […]
Workspace developments, studio residency projects and open studio events happening around the UK.
Not really much work today, once again catalogue work. Seems to be pretty close to completion though. I’m having to clear all my work out of the studios, I’ve only got left my most recent work. I really need to […]
