
Helen Knowles
Helen Knowles, who featured in a-n’s Degree show supplement 98 publication, reviews her progress over the past decade and discusses her current practice.
Helen Knowles, who featured in a-n’s Degree show supplement 98 publication, reviews her progress over the past decade and discusses her current practice.
Dana Hargrove, a graduate who featured in a-ns Degree show supplement 98 publication, discusses her current practice including a recent residency in South Africa.
The point of this blog was to talk about setting up studios, but as we have been in Harrington Mills for a year now, I think it is time to close this blog. I have just returned from an amazing […]
Go round old studios you used to 'practice' in and look in drawers, for every ten drawers you look in you will find one important sketchbook. Its a feeble attempt to denote a certain 'process' to collecting inspiration but if […]
Student Panic in Masters Application Cock-up Well the Easter break is now over, and I must admit that I didn’t manage to get very much done. With three weeks to spare, which seemed to stretch on into the far distance, […]
Joan Thompson on mental health services and further education.
Typical! I was determined (but evidently not determined enough) to write something here on 3 April 2008, as that was the date in 2007 that I started this blog. I can hardly believe it. And now it's the 8th…. Anyway, […]
I'd started to drop behind in my self imposed schedule so I ventured into Uni today (Saturday). I half expected to see other fine art students working seeing as we only have about 6 weeks left. No, the studios were […]
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Creative ambition 2 and ixia.
TALK ABOUT THE WORK We had a meeting to start planning our talk for Talk About the Work at Claremont Studios, Hastings later in April. We will focus on our collaborative partnership in Breaking Ground and see if we can […]
My question to you is At what point do you tell your parents that you've made a video of yourself sewing your fingers together for the 'sake of your art' and that you plan on gluing your eyes with eyelash […]
Easter vacation but the studios are still open for unattended working. Have been working on more monoprints; I'm still playing around with groups of images for the final show. I'm building up a directory of shapes and images that will […]
Here are some pictures of INVIGILATOR : DIGBTH followed by something about the piece itself: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikki_pugh/sets/72157604315544938/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikki_pugh/collections/72157604320330003/ paul conneally + nikki pugh + you + themSaturday 29th March, 2-5pmVIVID at 2pm As Digbeth continues its metamorphosis and assimilation into Eastside […]
This article by Furtherfield.org founders and Directors Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett was originally published in Coding Cultures: A Handbook, commissioned by Francesca da Rimini and d/lux/MediaArts in 2007. Catlow and Garrett discuss the origin and mission of Furtherfield.org and how its participatory platforms are art production tools.
Charlotte Frost on the various support systems run by Artsadmin, including information about its head of operations: Toynbee Studios, and examples of several projects it has produced with the likes of: Graeme Miller, Station House Opera and Gary Stevens.
"A man with a van and a passion for Dracula," was one of the suggestions floated for getting Sarah and David's work to Transylvania. Just one of the conversations we had whilst setting up for Sarah's PV on Friday night. […]
As part of the degree we have a module called "Career in Practice" This module consists of us creating a file about professional practice taken from research and notes from lectures and talks from visiting artists. Another major part of […]
With reference to the production of inter-disciplinary visual arts, Charlotte Frost indicates the types of activities involved, art forms which respond well to this style of collaboration and some of the difficulties experienced by production agencies in working in this way.
One of the benefits we offer at HMS is a web page. I ask artists to send info by email and I format it for the website and upload. But I am human and invariably miss bits and make the […]
Gillian Nicol introduces this months a-n Collection and considers the implication of the ACE Turning point recommendations on RFOs.
PRESENT I have been absent for a month. Now back in the world of the well. I have prints to finish, thoughts and threads to pick up – time to start sewing/sowing again. Broad bean and runner bean seeds are […]
Chris Brown introduces a rulebook to guide you through the whys and wherefores of artist-led activity.
Andy Beale manufacturers lace on the floor above. He makes miles of narrow gauge lace and knicker elastic. Wall-to-wall machinery. I mention this because we got a good deal on the property as he also creates decibels. The noise varies […]
It seems like a long time till the open studio but I have so little time between my job and the kids I really have to get going now. I have not yet said much about the Artist Open Studio […]