The programme for the sixth edition of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, the first under new Director Sarah McCrory, combines the local and international to create a busy 18 days of contemporary art activity across the city.
Still trying to catch up/ multitask but grateful to be in paid work I suppose. …. 24 September. Work day. Crazy day as hundreds + hundreds descended onto Chagall before the exhibition ends next week, so I couldn’t get any […]
Czech Pavillion, Venice Biennale
29 June – 24 November 2013
Open Plan is a collaborative project space where >Departure Foundation< is hosting a second Micro-residency. A group of artists including me are invited over the next ten days to work in this newly refurbished ground floor office in a Central […]
The sun was out today, at last, when I woke this morning after a week of snow and dirty skies in West Yorkshire. The ice is slowly melting, as the song goes.I took the dog straight out for an early […]
So there it is… the fundamental flaw with education today, beautifully illustrated in TES this week under the heading “The catastrophic impact of league tables for individual teachers”. http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6323230 For me it serves as a warning and a highlighter of […]
Two things have been swimming around in my head together over the last couple of days. Well, actually, there’s plenty swimming about in there, but these two things happened to crash together in a way I thought interesting, and pertinent […]
Summit Gallery is a new artist-led gallery and project space overlooking the Olympic Park in Hackney Wick. We talk to Director Natalie Sanders and the project’s first artist-in-residence Riccardo Iacono.
Week 19: 21st – 27th JanuaryIn many ways practice-led PhDs can be quite different to their theoretical counterparts; the structure of which can generally be separated into 3 sections. Assuming the PhD is full time, each section will coincide with […]
I’m back to un-coding the code. Maybe we shouldn’t be called teachers… Maybe we should be called examples – exemplar? Isn’t that just a better way to describe what we should be doing? Our job description? I made a mistake […]
MEASURING THE EXPERIENCE #15 The [information in the prior post] is not provided in order to suggest that there is, or necessarily should be, a direct relationship between the intentions and aspirations for visual arts policies and the financial situation […]
My foray as stated, started shortly after completing my BA. I had moved up to a little village just outside of Cambridge and for lack of other opportunity, was working in the local petrol station that was the social centre […]
At the end of October, Arts Council England announced its new structure, in response to a 50% cut in its admin budget from central government. The former Executive Director of ACE North East assesses the shape the organisation is in and expresses some concerns for the future.
Following (and maybe as a result of) my slightly panicky post on Thursday, I decided against a give away of my text piece ‘Recipe For Reciprocity’ at the Inhospitable private view in Leeds last night. Which is probably just as […]
Babylon Gallery, Ely
1 September – 7 October 2012
Video of the artists Ellie Harrison and Jordan McKenzie in conversation, with insights into surviving financially, alternative ways of doing things and using humour to engage people.
Serendipity strikes: Teatro Valle, the site where Six Characters premiered, Rome, is under occupation! On Wednesday I gave a short lecture about my Pirandello project at the British School at Rome during which I described the 1921 premier of Pirandello’s […]
“Find something you love to do, and you’ll never work a day in your life” – Harvey MacKay In the latter stages of last year I decided that I wanted to find a middle ground between what I was doing […]
A new exhibition traces the ‘Glasgow Miracle’ back to the 1970s and the foundation of the city’s Third Eye Centre. Chris Sharratt reports.
Open submission competitions have been generating plenty of comment and debate on a-n of late. What does the biennial Marmite Prize bring to the discussion? We speak to one of its founders.
This week I visited the BIAD, School of Art Degree Show, I was really impressed! The production levels, contexts worked within, content and general presentation of some (if not MOST) of the work was outstanding! Much better than last year […]
We catch up with a 2011 graduate, one year on from her degree show, to unveil alternative means of productivity with Scotland and Venice, well placed volunteering and research through internship.
