Here are some more images of my drawing/installation that I showed as part of Open Studios at Phoenix Brighton. I’d left the drawing for a while because it has been quite time consuming but felt as though in this context […]
Today, amongst other things I have to research an idea that I have conjured up with the curator Catherine Hemelryck. We are hatching a plan with hopefully the go ahead from Arts Council Funding to form an elaborate selection of […]
Well, i still havent started any work. Not really. I’m getting really quite restless now that ive started to settle in up here in York. However, this may be because i’ve had flu for a week… I found an ancient […]
Phoenix Gallery, Brighton5 September – 11 October 2009
Tracey and Hayley, the artists who are showing work in the HMS Exhibition Space during our open studio event, came to stay on saturday night. We talked til 1.30pm. After a quick tour of Southwell Minster we were at the […]
Being Home As soon as you begin your return journey, you just want to be home. The train journey to the airport was sad – i can’t think of a better word, it was dark, cold and raining for the […]
Writer and editor Jane MacNamee came to visit me in my studio during September. We had the following interview for local and wider publicity about the project.. Hi Clare, are you usually based here as an artist? I’m based here […]
Since I last wrote, things have really started to pick up momentum. An Enterprise Inc meeting made me feel back on the ball again, and as we look forward to the opening of the new Enterprise@Lincoln building, where Sparkhouse businesses […]
I have decided it is time for a new blog. The summer in a certain way has felt endless and I haven’t seemed to be able to find the enthusiasm to keep this blog updated. I have seen it all […]
Richard Taylor in conversation with Carolyn Shepherd, final year degree student at Wirral Metropolitan.
Tuesday – My last day in Finland We turned a different way out of the road this time, and Edwina took me to the side of Riihimaki that i had not been to yet; i am amazed how far this […]
With so many shows on this month, I have barely had time to breather let alone evaluate what has been going on around me. My show at g39, Cardiff has had many visitors and next weekend it sadly comes down. […]
With so many shows on this month, I have barely had time to breathe let alone evaluate what has been going on around me. My show at g39, Cardiff has had many visitors but next weekend it sadly comes down. […]
Abigail Branagan has been advising artists and makers for over a decade. She is a freelance business advisor as well as Business Development Manager at Cockpit Arts in London. She talks to Jane Watt about what makes a good advice session and how makers are weathering the economic storm.
Just back from the planet of NY. My first visit. City of culture, cash, cheese, contradictions – and a place to put my complex life into perspective. I should have left the mobile at home – a phonecall at 6am […]
Just back from Venice Biennale. Too much to see to write about – sufficient to say suspect there is a sea-change and people are beginning to question the accepted model. Also very political. Back home in Scotland and I am […]
Day 2 as an official blogger! I had meant to start this during the build up to the course starting but I went on a jaunt around Britain for 2 weeks instead, the photos and drawings from which, I plan […]
To London to London to visit the Queen- well not quite. The Jerwood, Threadneedle and various galleries serendipitously en route……… As always I have returned from my wanderings fired up and no longer connected with daily life. My head is […]
Phew! Busy playing catch-up which has meant a few late evenings and meetings. October looks like being a mega busy month with a Big Draw and the Open Studios. I’ve never been involved in the Big Draw but this one, […]
