Well the deadline for choosing our spaces for the degree show has hit us and hit us fast. The mad scramble to get ethics forms and health and safety signatures was yesterday and now we simply have to get our […]
14/03/2013 Today I visited the old dressing room for Wolverhampton Football Club, this was situated in the Molineux Hotel. The building is now home of the Archives material dating back to 15th Century. The Building itself is over 300 years […]
Post-AIRTIME Firstly it was great to be invited over so cheers Ed & a-n. We all had a great time, it was so good to see so much enthusiasm from all sorts of people, we really enjoyed talking to so […]
Have digital networks such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs altered the way curators choose artists for exhibitions? A new show opening at APT Gallery in Deptford provides some answers.
This past week at Meanwhile Space in Stoke Newington, L’Amour was in the air. All we need is love, yes, but à la française. Une semaine au nom de L’amour. Du mardi 5 au samedi 10 mars 2013. Ah, l’Amour, […]
Second edition of open exhibition invites work in any media from contemporary visual artists of all ages and nationalities.
Intro I received notification for this residency way back in early 2011, after seeing an advert for on Axis. So for me it has been along time coming. Really great to be here, in the country that flows through my […]
Modern Edinburgh Film School brings together practitioners in visual art, poetry, performance and film to explore alternative approaches to the screen. Project founder Alex Hetherington talks about community, social sculpture and his search for a sense of ‘elsewhere-ness’ in a very traditional city.
It’s now over a month since I presented my work, ‘The Fabric of Life’ at the group peer crit organised by Q-Art at Central St Martin’s. It was, as I’ve already mentioned here, the first one I’d ever presented and […]
The first of two symposia as part of Collective gallery’s New Work Scotland programme for recent graduates, takes place at Tramway, Glasgow, this weekend.
Kevin Harrison, Director of Stirling arts agency Artlink Central, responds to Stirling Council’s recent decision to close The Changing Room, the city’s only contemporary art gallery.
Small update on the studios: Running well, darkroom up and running, small re-jig currently happening, and finding dates to arrange the first in a series of artist talks. Also, there is a space currently available ready to move in asap, […]
The Importance of Tea Time. First: of course no contract has arrived, but I will update about that in due course. I was away last week, doing making, and a couple of workshops and a meeting. I wanted to tell […]
A partnership between homeless charity Crisis and Bow Arts, London’s largest artist studio provider, is providing a voice – and studio space – for the marginalised.
As a new art competition launches in Leeds, we speak to the project’s curator, its sponsor and one of the shortlisted artists about the city’s changing; and self-sustaining; art scene.
On Wednesday I finished looking at two ‘papers’ for the Artistic Research course. The first made very depressing reading and lead me to question the validity of an ideology that appears to be so desperate for institutional approval that it […]
Over the course of four years, artists, curators and writers were invited to select blogs from the a-n site. Their choices highlights the range and depth of practice discussed on a-n’s artists’ blogging platform at that time.
I have had so many meetings and discussions about this project recently that I feel like I have been having an out of body experience! I think this is because when I began this blog, it was very much in […]
I first initially began collecting my train tickets just as a habit throughout the summer as I was travelling backwards and forwards to work. I had no real plans to use these as work, however with the vast collection I […]
The Royal Standard, Liverpool’s renowned artist-led studios and gallery, is facing a brighter future after resolving – for now – the rates relief issue that threatened its existence.
