Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge
18 January – 1 March
I will be undertaking a residency at 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China during February and March. 501 Artspace is a large independent artist led studio group and art gallery. There are approximately 80 artists working from the studios and they are […]
I would just like to say…. SNOW!!! WOOOOOP WOOP!!!!! SNOOOOOOOOOW….!!!!!! YEEEAH! If you hadn't already guessed, i love snow! So ive been siting outside considering whether to go into uni OR to go for a walk along the snow covered […]
Beyond the curatorial work established by and presented from within art museums and galleries, a plethora of curatorial organisations operate in order to support and develop the practice of curating. This tour, by Charlotte Frost, examines some of the different remits addressed by curatorial organisations, providing an initial orientation in their hugely diverse activities.
London-based Artquest has launched a new free international networking and studio exchange site for visual artists. By joining Artelier, users anywhere can create and update a free profile, providing details about your studios across the Artelier network. The aim is […]
So the last couple of days have been good because ive been in from 9am through to 6pm, Alison the ceramic and casting technician has been giving me a lot of help and ive managed to figure out how to […]
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 […]
