One of my lives involves a freelance contract working for Oxford University where I source and add research-quality visual art websites to http://www.intute.ac.uk – an online resource for research and higher education. The websites I catalogue each month tend to […]
All Together Now? Working Life and Culture in Liverpool. I have been to too many events in the last year where rather than issues being discussed, a biography or a potted history is presented instead. Thankfully this was not one […]
I'm worried. I have become disconnected from my own practice and I'm bothered that HMS will disappear off the radar. Mum has deteriorated rapidly this week and I need to support her. We have two industrial heaters at the studio […]
This year is proving to be just as hectic as everyone said it would be, on completion of my dissertation along with the work running up to my December exhibition i was looking forward to a bit of studio time […]
It's been a slow start to the New Year, I have been into the studio a few times and I am managing to work on a few canvases at the moment. I am currrently having to be inventive with my […]
I recieved my letter from Safle, outlining the details. My interview is on 6th Feb, in the morning. It will last for 45 min, which consists of me showing and talking about my work for 10 mins, and then a […]
the last post was a while ago. the show at corsica studios went well in the end. i got some good feedback and it was really helpful to just stand and watch how people interacted with the piece without them […]
I'm pleased to be starting a shiny new year. The tail-end of 2008 was pants. It started with the dog incident in September and ended with a series of unfortunate events. My mum is still seriously ill and I spent […]
More bad news… some of the most established studios in Nottingham look like closing. I was a member of Oldknows Studio Group for many years and I understand the group cannot renew their existing lease. The landlord needs to upgrade […]
This week has been full of my son's christmas parties and concert's and Christmas. We had some bad news at our studios this week. It seems that someone had the nerve to sneak into the studios whilst artists were working […]
Lucinda Holmes has recently re-located to China and become involved with an emerging arts centre called [the studio] that is working towards developing an artists community in Shanghai. In this article she records her impressions of the galleries she has encountered in the city, and discusses how experiencing a different culture has effected her work as an artist.
EVALUATION Time to sit and remember the three Project Space Installations: Outside In at Phoenix in Brighton, Under Ground at Pine Gallery, Hastings, and Gone to Earth at Crate in Margate. Many experiences and experiments: asking people to bring inside […]
(A Class Act, Part III) In a situation where individual artists (as opposed to organisations) are not able to apply for funds directly, those who are able to stay in the profession in the long run are either those artists […]
So i am bed ridden! great! What was a chest infection has now turned into an investigation to whether or not i have a blood clot in my lung or chest wall or something. Though they said it is unlikely, […]
Proposals are starting to gain momentum – I've been discussing ideas with colleagues to start some collaborative projects. Basically, most fine art graduates from Lincoln University have gone "home" since graduation and are having to take up other work to […]
two weeks without internet connection is sort of a struggle. the thought that someone might be wanting to contact you or replying to an email sent is frustrating until you realize that nobody is. since i last blogged i have […]
THE PIECE HALL Originally the smaller Cloth Hall, The Piece Hall was opened on 1st January 1779 as a place for hand loom weavers to sell their pieces of cloth. Halifax is a wool town and a variety of the […]
And so it seems that I only feel inspired to write this blog as a form of…I hesitate to use the word therapy here…avoiding the bitter cold of my studios isolates negative thoughts towards art that human contact dispels. I've […]
Welcome to the beginning of what will be a really exciting colloboration between artists from the UK and Iran. This project was born from an ACE funded international fellowship that was hosted by Makers Dozen Studios in Wolverhampton, back in […]
The first thing I have become aware of by starting this blog is my own pomposity, it must take a very vane artist indeed to hide behind a cloak of obscurity to write a less than trivial and utterly frivolous […]
How does a maker reach the market? Freelance consultant and Market Development Manager for Cockpit Arts Abigail Branagan highlights the key routes.
Cockpit Arts’ chief executive Vanessa Swann and business development manager Ellen O’Hara speak to Jane Watt about Cockpit’s unique incubator scheme for designer-makers in London.
