At the end of this show there is a small display of commercial items (and no, I’m not referring to the gift shop). Photographs of models wearing angular dresses are shown next to a box of tissues and other goods. […]
This week’s selection takes in two career spanning survey shows – Giulio Paolini in London and Bruce McClean in Colchester – plus there are ‘earthy’ new works by William Cobbing in Middlesbrough, and a new film installation questioning the concept of freedom by Grace Schwindt in Birmingham.
I’ve started to think about all sorts of possibilities that could open up with having a studio. Instead of it just being a space that could lie empty 5 days a week while I’m working, there are options to use […]
It’s the end of week one of Summer Lodge, a two week research opportunity/ residency for 30+ artists at NTU. Most are NTU staff and PhDs students with a few invited guests, some international. I am one of five artists […]
Memories. Acrylic and mixed media on board. Sue Gough So nice to be using the new improved site. I’ve been frantically busy for the past few months; once I’d recovered from the infection, that took me six weeks, I then […]
I’ve been trying to work out when things all began to change, Did it happen gradually – so slowly that I hardly noticed it happening, or was it just a ‘Ping – that’s it, I’ve had enough’ moment? I’m talking […]
An open letter from artists in Manchester is calling on publicly-funded galleries to do more to support artists who live and work in the city.
Now in its tenth year, Embassy Gallery’s Annuale festival in Edinburgh celebrates artist-led collaboration in Scotland’s capital and beyond.
Stoke has one of England’s lowest levels of participation in the arts, something which Appetite, part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme, is aiming to improve with three years of events and performances. We report from the north Staffordshire city.
Turf Projects PUTT PUTT #2 Commission I was delighted to be asked to make a playful new work for this years PUTT PUTT #2 crazy golf course in Croydon. For those who don’t know about the wonderful work of Turf […]
Yesterday was my last day in Allenheads and today I’m back in Liverpool, in Arena, my studios, priming boards to make a massive long painting to go in the Palm House for Liverpool International Music Festival in August. I am […]
Artist-led festival Hackney WickED has announced it will provide a number of artist bursaries for its 2014 edition, following news that it has received Arts Council England funding for the first time.
Standpoint Gallery’s Mapping Art Practice Symposium invites practitioners and key thinkers to discuss the geographical and economic implications of art practice in the UK.
This week, we catch a New Wave of emerging artistic talent at Birmingham’s RBSA Gallery and explore national identity through Rachel Maclean’s timely exhibition at CCA in Glasgow. Plus there are shows in London, Exeter and Liverpool to enjoy, including a life-size reconstruction of Piet Mondrian’s Paris studio at Tate Liverpool.
Well, here we are – nearing the end. I’ve just spent what has to be one of the better/more rewarding weeks at university, setting up my degree show in and around the Black Space. It’s been a joy to see […]
Charlotte Prodger has been announced as the recipient of the annual Margaret Tait Award, awarded to a Scottish or Scotland-based artist working in experimental film and/or moving image.
Paper making refresher lesson I have only made paper once before, and that was over 20 years ago, while at art college. I thought that as my project is mainly about paper making, that I should have a refresher lesson […]
My degree project is coming together: 1. I have decided on how I will use the space. 2. I have sorted out the covering – acrylic and ordered and paid for it, arranging delivery for Friday 30 May. Today I […]
Yesterday I went to the Open Forum session led by Matt Roberts Arts at the Bath Artists’ Studios where I had a one-to-one portfolio session with Matt Roberts where I had the chance to discuss with him ways to promote […]
I’ve been doing further research into Fiona Banner (http://www.fionabanner.com/). Katrina M. Brown said of Banner’s work “but what we’re really looking at is the gap between function and failure – a word spelled incorrectly collapses the relationship to meaning and […]
It’s life ‘n’ that innit? Gaaaah! Four weeks of illness. FOUR WEEKS! But thankfully, I am on the mend now and my energies are directed to the upcoming North Yorkshire Open Studios. My first attempt, so I am a bit […]
A Re:View bursary report
