A Turner Prize winner and three former nominees make up the selection panel for this year’s open platform aimed at final-year students and recent graduates from UK art schools.
Back to earth today – no more Tate and Paul Klee. The walls of the gallery needed a bit of making good so the gallery curator and I spent the afternoon sanding and touching up the walls of the gallery […]
I’m still not getting anywhere with Kickstarter funding, so I’m taking a break for a while. The Christmas Market went well considering we had to move it at short notice. I somehow managed to set it up, and made as […]
Does the idea that the best way to succeed in the creative industries is to comply with the notion that you have to have been to university and follow a particular path really work? In my view it has more […]
Currently Reading: Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Phaidon (eds.). 2009. Phaidon, London. This survey of contemporary sculpture conducted in 2009 spotlights 119 prominent cross-generational artists from 27 countries, introduced by Anne Ellegood. The criteria for inclusion to […]
In a previous blog post I mentioned two areas of my work which were just beginning to unfold. The AA2A project, http://aa2a.biz/pg/profile/southampton based at Solent University took off to a slow start due to previous commitments and school holidays which […]
Is it acceptable to advertise for unpaid, full-time interns? And what is a reasonable level of pay for the directors of a registered charity that receives over £1million a year from Arts Council England? Two stories about the Serpentine Gallery provide food for thought.
Following on from our previous posts “Why You Don’t Need to Debut” This post is addressed to new graduates who are wondering what to do next, and who have perhaps considered attending one of the “how to get into the […]
As the first proper entry of my first ever blog there is a lot to say as there is a month or so to catch up on!!! Before I came to Art Space:- I studied 3DDesign at the University of […]
The opportunity arose to apply for a Graduate Student Residency at Art Space Portsmouth (ASP). This was my chance to have a studio space for 6 months along with 6 mentoring sessions and a solo 2 week exhibition at GASP, […]
At 8am students are already arriving at the studios. The Public Art course has a great space, or at least I thought so until Yijia, my host and lecturer on the course, says that other disciplines have much better studios. […]
This month has been a proper UP and DOWN in my practice. UP because I have been pleased with the reception of “La Mujerzuela (The floozy)” from people. I know that there is more potential in playing with these objects […]
Day 17 – Black to Bloom No 2 Black to Bloom describes the ‘blooming’ of the pigment as it spreads out through the glaze. The pigment diffuses and mimics the circular spots already on the canvas. This painting is composed […]
It has been some time since I posted about anything other than cinema reviews and that is all going to change by not neglecting this blog from painting anymore. Since finishing the Graduate Residency with AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent in […]
The £60,000 Contemporary Art Society Annual Award has been won by Elizabeth Price, in conjuction with an Oxford-based partnership led by the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology.
Artists/Practitioners sharing this Loopart13 November residency (pt. 5) Louise Oates http://www.louiseoates.co.uk/ http://www.source.ie/graduate/2013/londcollba/londcollba_student_08_41_27_13-05-13/londcollba_student_08_41_27_13-05-13.php Evy Jokhova http://www.evyjokhova.co.uk/ and if that wasn’t enough: http://www.saatchionline.com/Eeevy and! http://www.saatchionline.com/Eeevy Impressive stuff and a lot of reading and intense ‘looking’ to do, but dipping in as and […]
This year’s engage International Conference took place in Birmingham and tackled the current period of ‘extraordinary change’ in art education across the UK while also exploring what an uncertain future may hold. AIR Council member Caroline Wright, who was presenting at the conference, reports.
Exhibition dates and project details announced for second edition of major moving image awards, featuring new commissions by artists in the first five years of their practice.
Vision and more vision this week. My focus has increased and I feel that I’m making things happen (with great phsyical/mental effort!). The lampshades have finally arrived to a pleasure point where I’m happy with what I see and what […]
Victoria Warehouse Hotel, Manchester
25 October – 10 November 2013
I’ve been leading a double life for the past month as the Lincoln residency overlapped with my year long University of Nottingham residency. I can now confirm that I have moved into a studio in the old Dairy on Jubilee […]
