Cheese and whine I don’t like PVs much. Apart from when I was much younger and the objective of a party was to party, I never have relished certain social situations. Compound that with the effects of a life of […]
experiments with drawing I love drawing. Sometimes it is a means to an end, sometimes it is an end in itself, and sometimes drawing is about making the first few tentative steps towards a new place, like learning to walk. […]
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists take their practice to the next level.
Just back from Venice Biennale. Too much to see to write about – sufficient to say suspect there is a sea-change and people are beginning to question the accepted model. Also very political. Back home in Scotland and I am […]
Almost a month has gone by since my last update, but other than a week in Bilbao, Spain, I have had my head down working. I have been fortunate enough to be selected for Exeter Contemporary Open, have a show […]
The window space had my mothers desk in it. I could look out and get a glimpse of the pavement often with a chicken on it trying to get grit from the road. My mothers diary laid out and her […]
Tons of muck flows into the canals each day, and gives the crumbling back-quarters of Venice the peculiar stink-half drainage, half rotting stone-that so repels the queasy tourist, but gives the Venetian amateur a perverse and reluctant pleasure. Add to […]
I don’t remember any of the art in Peggy Guggenheim’s museum in Venice but I still remember the names of her dogs. Duchamp’s grave reads: “Besides, it’s always other people who die.” Peggy’s grave reads: ‘Here lies Peggy Guggenheim 1898-1979
My journey on the train was beautiful; the view literally consisted of tree, tree, tree, sap, tree, lake, tree, tree etc. I found myself becoming slightly frustrated that I could not be out in the forest but the sighting of […]
I have come back to this blog after a long gap. Its July, I’m making again, in a rather different direction. Venice is where my minds eye is looking. I went there in March and I have a rather large […]
There is only one thing to say. I would rather be in Venice than here. review of Venice trip on interface.
The most versatile of artforms, art in the public realm includes permanent works as well as temporary installations and architectural manifestations. The appetite for such work has been enhanced through the Big Art Project that enabled communities themselves to make the running for art projects and nurtured their ambitions and narratives over four years. A record one million viewers were attracted to the resulting Channel 4 programmes broadcast in May.
Steve McQueen, Britain’s representative at the Venice Biennale, was giving a press conference about his artwork, a short film depicting the setting of the Biennale after the glamorous art world had left. A reporter from a Sunday newspaper asked whether […]
Struggling to reach deadlines at the moment. Life feels thinly stretched and time to apply for other things has been squeezed out.. Hopefully I may manage the two that close next week… Exhibition (Dumb Objects), up. Opening, fantastic. Lots of […]
A silver lining to the recession? Me thinks he is coming from a slightly different point of view.. just doing my evening trawl through the paper (and getting some previews of Venice before I go!) and found this quote: "The […]
I’m at home recovering from a small operation. Yesterday I dropped off my application for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award. Going over to the east end was a bit much so I’m going to take it very easy today. I’m […]
Beacon co-director John Plowman and artist Kelly Large discuss the project ‘Our Name is Legion’.
Today we were ceremoniously booted out from our studio on campus. 2nd Year Fine Art students use the space to have their assessment/end of year show. We went willingly though, as this feels like the beginning of the end. Here […]
