Forth Valley Open Studios This is like a snowball gathering speed all the time. I was warned this might happen. We have another public meeting planned for this coming Thursday in Alloa, a town along the Ochils which has recently […]
Crikey ! Very crikey! One of the A-N’s 2009 blog of the year!!!!! To say I am really rather surprised and humbled is an understatement. I thought it was just me and the dog that read it and the dog […]
The exhibition space is looking tired and needs a lick of paint so I posted an invitation to a paint party on the HMS forum. As always, there was a positive response and all we need to do is set […]
Stockholm II It’s very strange for me to think that the still very deep and remarkably white snow that lies on the ground might be here until February. I have to remember that here snow doesn’t mean that everything comes […]
Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai
2 December 2009 – 23 January 2010
Bath Artist Studios, Bath
3 – 13 October 2009
‘The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side’. The final piece of feed back on my last post is rather idealistic, the reality is a little more complex than that. I do have the best job ever, but like […]
Tomorrow we have the first meeting of the Forth Valley Open Studios in Stirling. This will test the water to see how much demand there is for artists in this area to form a collective/group to open studios to the […]
The opening night was quite an event. Enver Gursev, an artist at our studios is a musician as well as an artist and he organised some great music and a performance piece. Two ladies, Luci Boccino and Denise Heinrich-lane http://www.myspace.com/ledonnedonnedonne […]
Fraction opened with aplomb and the exhibition is very strong. Talking to my fellow studio artists they say that Elizabeth , my studio mate and I who are amongst the new arrivals here have been told that we have come […]
We are looking forward to mediation and an independent view of our case. It will be great to have a discussion, something we have been pushing for a long time. You would think the findings from mediation would be presented […]
Mir Jansen, Programme Manager of the professional development programme at Yorkshire Artspace in Sheffield talks to Jane Watt about how the studio organisation continues to support artists, the parallels between an artists and an organisations profile development, and her top five tips on making funding applications.
Friday looms. Everything happens on Friday…. Fraction and our open studios as well as delivery of my new works to Julian. I have created about 15 new works in the last few weeks. I don’t know how. I am beyond […]
I am poised, open-mouthed staring into the expectant eyes of a local gallery’s curator who has just turned to me and said in all seriousness “So what is this about?” I am in Oxford and am taking part in an […]
Inspired by the highly successful Perthshire Open Studios – their second- I have launched a project to do something similar for Forth Valley.So far I am getting a good response and we have got an Open meeting fixed for December […]
In Deptford there is a huge hub of artist studios: Cor Blimey Arts, Creekside, APT, Artworks to name a few and we are all collected on this rather splendid artmap www.deptfordartmap.com Set up by Julia Alvarez of Bearspace who has […]
Members of Bristol’s biggest artist-led collective Jamaica Street Artists (JSA) have teamed up with Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery for an exhibition and auction that they hope will raise substantial funds towards the purchase of their building.
Artists and curators relate methods of navigating a self-directed exhibiting career.
A curator spotted my paintings on Axis and paid me a visit today. The show is in January and a bit soon, but I’m quite excited as my work is going in the right direction. (Most of my paintings are […]
Well, a month has passed and I’m beginning to realise how much slower things move outside the comfort of the art school environment. I finally graduated at the beginning of November which was great, apart from having to come up […]
The studios are OPEN! A splendid sunny day. All the right people were here. Had a lot of short conversations over the two-hour frantic meet, greet and eat. Pleased to say that the first, tentative, exploratory shoots of project-plan-litmus-testing turn […]
Moot, Nottingham
7 – 30 August 2009
Organisation and Co-Ordination. I am part of the crew of the Cor Blimey Artists helping organise our open studios exhibition, Fraction. 4-6th December. I think there are about 25 of us and I have been collecting info for a press […]
