The Exposure Award 2014 at Parasol Unit in London, offers the opportunity for selected graduates to show work professionally in a gallery and to present their work during a panel discussion. This year Chelsea College of Art (UAL) graduates Jon […]
What kind of studio space do artists require? Traditionally the answer was simple: a big, airy space with north facing windows and affordable. WASPS, a Scottish based charity, aim to provide such spaces and they were in Stirling last week […]
Following last weeks exciting meeting at Portway, I have been going through my ideas and trying to build them together to create lesson plans for the 5 weeks with the children. I know that until I meet the children and […]
Yesterday I made a journey. Abuela helped me pack. Taking a very sandy Sand Cake made from a recipe card given to me by Kate Murdoch https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/keeping-it-going-1 felt very important. I would have liked to pack one of my sand […]
I got to an interesting point during the summer where my painting was moving on. My tutor had encouraged me to be more confident and I’d begun making stronger and more simplified marks with paint. A pause from painting during […]
Down comes Anywhere is Everywhere is a Circular Tale, a solo exhibition in Texas and up goes My Home is My Castle in the Harrington Mill Artists group in the Carnival of Monsters in Nottingham. Next is the Open Studios […]
Down comes Anywhere is Everywhere is a Circular Tale, a solo exhibition in Texas and up goes My Home is My Castle in the Harrington Mill Artists group in the Carnival of Monsters in Nottingham. Next is the Open Studios […]
I am thrilled to have been selected for a three month residency working with marble at the very prestigious Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Italy. Here is whats happened..
So it’s a bit of a cheat putting this here as it is not directly linked to my MA. However if you are like me and believe that art is life then it is indeed appropriate to post here. As […]
Session one: ‘Making Sculpture – View from the Studio’ A conversation between studio assistants and collaborators chaired by Jenny Dunseath, feat. Olivia Bax, Neil Ayling, Hamish Black and John Wallbank. (I didn’t take notes until Session 2. However, I am […]
I go to China on 31st October. That is in about 3 weeks, which is not long at all. I feel like I have lots to do before I go but maybe I am just panicking a bit? I think […]
Post 10 Christian Mooney – 2 July Not to repeat myself too much, although at this stage it seemed clear that some of the given advice was overlapping from the 5 mentors but of course with individual nuances. So I […]
It took a long time to adapt, but I’m getting more and more into the studio routine now. I’m finding that even if I only spend 3 ½ hours in the studio, its 3 ½ hours of solid work – […]
The prizewinners of the third annual Lumen Prize international award for digital art have been announced.
My Deptford X, 1: Market Musical, Janette Parris, songs based on her conversations with Market stall holders and local shop-keepers. Janette wrote the songs based on that material (and she also created the Deptford X edition of her ARCH Comic […]
Being an artist has certain pressures associated with it, not everyone understands these pressures, of course. It is only those working within creative fields that seem to ‘get’ it. Finding enough drive to lead your own self-initiated activities on […]
Finding myself in the studios is unusual these days, not because I’m not working, I am, all the time. But because taking a ten month old to a communal studio and expecting her not to a) break something b) injure […]
During my first month at the studios I have had many interesting talks with the lead artist, David Dixon, who has been working hard to set up some amazing opportunities for the associate artists within Chapel Arts Studios. One of […]
Cardiff Contemporary brings together a range of special commissions, exhibitions and residencies across the city for a five-week festival of the visual arts.
At the end of August I moved to Stoke-On-Trent to begin a Graduate Residency at Airspace Gallery. It has now been just over a month since I arrived. ‘Airspace Gallery is a collaborative, artist led project in Stoke-on-Trent, providing professional development […]
Asia Triennial Manchester is a multi-venue festival of contemporary art which for its third edition takes Conflict and Compassion as its theme. Chris Sharratt reports.
Taking the measure of last week I declare it a good one, starting with a cautiously hopeful hospital-appointment and ending with an encounter with an artist I hadn’t met before, not in person that is. This is what I tweeted […]
What are artists’ associate programmes and what do they offer within the broad landscape of artists’ professional development? What should artists consider before applying? Based on extensive research into sixty arts organisations across England, Scotland and Wales, this guide by Dany Louise offers artists help in thinking through the various options available to them.
