It’s back to the art world and back to blogging for me. I graduated from Norwich University of the Arts in June 2012, I put up my degree show and the next week went into full time work as a […]
Week 22: 11th – 17th FebruaryI often enjoy looking at the bigger picture and the different factors that connect things, so it was with this in mind that I set about contemplating this week’s blog post: the structures of education […]
In January, three UK makers began Watershed’s Craft + Technology Residencies, bringing together making and design with digital, networked technologies. Taking place in Bristol, Plymouth and Falmouth, we talk to the participants and discover how digital technology is influencing their practice.
This is how my documentation is looking at the moment. I have made this book using the website Blurb for my assesment couple of weeks ago. 82 pages of work from 2008 to 2012, with images of sculptures and drawings […]
While Michael Gove’s recent scrapping of the English Baccalaureate Certificate is welcome, Q-art Director Sarah Rowles suggests that there’s much more work to be done when it comes to the wider issue of art education.
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.
Mock Artist Talk +4 Q: A few weeks have passed since your debut solo show ‘Grandfather’ at Airspace Gallery from 25 January to 2 February. Where did the motivation to create the surprisingly different paintings featured in the show come […]
Working men’s clubs and pubs An unusual spot of influence to the visual imagery depicted in the contemporary paintings has come from the post’s eponymous title. The recent exhibition visit to the UKs capital hubbub for culture and arts has […]
End of Graduate Residency The conclusion of this 6-month Graduate Artist Residency here at AirSpace Gallery from September 2012 to February 2013 resulted in the cultivation of a debut solo show that will forever be listed on the curriculum vitae, […]
Stuart Middleton awarded £10,000 prize for his work Jump!
Grandfather With the opening of the long-awaited debut solo show, GRANDFATHER, one is found with pride and conviction of their actions that have led the beginning to the end of the Graduate Residency a success. Changes were made, thought processes […]
New Contemporary Paintings Although produced within the last weeks leading up to the debut solo show GRANDFATHER, the newly exhibited paintings show a depth to artistic control and determination, foreclosing theory and existential texts in favour of lifting a paintbrush […]
After a busy 2012 of solo shows, festivals and art fairs; we talk to Scottish artist Kevin Harman about his career since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art’s MFA in 2010. And pick his brain on art education today.
It’s been a bit of a blurgh day…. a trek through the snow to work, convinced that my wellies were leaking…..and a reject from the commission I’d applied for. Not so bad for me really, compared to us all sitting […]
The Griffin Gallery & CHARLIE SMITH London, London
11 January – 16 February 2013
Glasgow’s Tramway is to be the host venue for the 2015 Turner Prize, bringing the UK’s highest profile art prize to Scotland for the first time.
Drawing: After training in Decorative Arts my practice as an artist has been for many years primarily concerned with stained-glass, glass applique and kiln-formed glass sculpture. In this way I’ve educated my eye in respect of pattern, geometry and colour […]
Back in May, Axisweb announced they were having a clear out of their books and publications in their Leeds office, inviting their membership to get in touch if they wanted anything as they were going digital. This was just before […]
This post was originally written on August 21st, 2012. Since graduating I have been busier than at any time in my life, and that’s not just because three days before my final assessment my wife gave birth to our first […]
A return to blogging in the form of an update. The final time I shall mention him in the place where art should be: my son is now six months old, sleeping (like a baby), and I have managed a […]
Week 12: 3rd – 9th DecemberThis week I attended my first conference as a post graduate researcher. The title of the conference was Charming Intentions: Occultism, Magic and the History of Art and promised papers ‘ranging from the material culture […]
Mrs Rick’s Cupboard, Nottingham
7 December 2012 – 25 January 2013
ALISN’s Conference for Emerging Organisers explored the complexities of being an artist-organiser, and provided a useful forum for informal networking and discussion.
Crisis – Opportunity? You would have thought that by the final year a student would have everything figured out but it would be dangerous to assume this. In fact we are still learning. At the end of my 1st year […]
