Just sat down to write this and I am already out of time lunch hr once again taken up with domestic chores and getting presents for children’s parties etc. I have to send some feed back to Emma as well […]
Rachel Garfield explains how a desire to critique dominant models of the mainstream informs her curatorial practice.
Open studio events around the UK plus calls to take part.
There's a clear line becoming apparent in the emerging empty shops movement. On one side there are artists and organisations who have been engaging with empty spaces for a long time. Often, there's no clearly stated reason – but some […]
Well, four months until the show opens. I attended a talk by T.J. Demos at the newly refurbished Whitechapel Gallery on Thursday on ecology. He spoke about sustainability and its relation to the expansion and stretching of social relations, activities […]
Another busy week, but not as bad as last week I finally feel like I am ready to open this weekend. So I will have to look on the last one as a dress rehearsal. I have also managed to […]
Sent the catalogue to print today, quite a sense of relief and a different sense of anxiety as it is now out of our hands. Hopefully we will have proofs on Monday, an exciting prospect. I was talking to a […]
Some of my posts appear to have fallen off the edge of the planet – along with several brain cells these past few days…. Although there is still a month til the PV of our show, there is a flurry […]
Days till Degree Show – 17 So the studios are empty and are being systematially filled by the 2nd years who have their show/assessment in some of the same space. It's strange that after three years of having a safe […]
The Arts Forum, St Leonards on Sea
7 – 20 May 2009
updates, updated. been extra busy since last post. mostly organising. it seems like the end of this term comes down to pure organisation. organising shows (have helped put on 2 recently), applying for things post-graduation, designing and printing postcards for […]
Almost there now! The opening of the trail preview exhibition went well, I don’t know if anything sold but it was a good turnout. It is up until Friday the 15th when we have to come down for another festival […]
Michelle Rowley Today has been another busy day. As tomorrow’s deadline looms, some of us still have much to do, whilst others have completely finished. There is a concentrated atmosphere in the studios and I have been busy helping to […]
It's a strange feeling, being on the verge of holding a degree show. There is a sense of quiet urgency, almost desperation, around the third year studios which is coupled with an odd absence as some students have packed up […]
A definite sense of low level panic pervades the studios. We are all being very critical of our work and worrying about deadlines. With the wax still melting, the paint still wet… Will we be ready in time?
It has been a fairly productive week. I have felt quite invigorated turning up at the studio each morning with a clear set of tasks before me. You could say just a little too invigorated maybe… I have noticed that […]
Dot Howard, Michael Ridge and I performed ‘Longwinded in Five Parts’ at the SPILL Festival National Platform (National Theatre Studios) on 18th April 2009. Here’s a review by Eleanor Hadley Kershaw (http://www.spilloverspill.blogspot.com/):
