Showcases the best art and design shows with advertising of degree shows around the UK. Plus in ‘Keep moving’ four recent graduates describe their journeys through the tricky months after university and in ‘Points of reference’ Richard Taylor presents excerpts […]
Times they are a-changing. Excellent news from the Royal Standard studio group with several people (present and past) going away to study for postgrads in various brilliant places. Other artists I know in Liverpool are also looking to move away […]
Last month Cambridge saw the launch of a significant new artist-run space, Aid & Abet. Artists Sarah Evans, David Kefford and CJ Mahony discuss how the project has developed and how their relationship has graduated from being fellow studio holders to a collaborative working group.
In March, artists got together to discuss and share their strategies for surviving the cuts without compromising practice, ethics or professionalism.
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
15 March – 9 April 2011
It’s all a bit strange in work today… We had an hour long meeting in which we were told about the forthcoming changes to the staff structure…then given an hour and half to digest everything that we were told. 90 […]
I listened to a man this week. He told me a story of stories. He said, if he had a book, an autobiography and he asked the writer the story of that book, they would tell him a story of […]
I think I’m to have a bit of a moan about money in this blog. I’m sure that it’s quite a blogged about subject especially the lack of it but that’s not the main reason for this though, it’s the […]
The studio now has running water and great facilities for washing buckets etc. This week sees the studio used for Design & Build, 2 workshops run by UCA architecture students on the graduate diploma course. The first workshop was on […]
As 2011 BYAM SHAW alumna Eliza Self’s totebag boldly states: “CSM FUCKED MY ART SCHOOL (NOT IN A GOOD WAY)” Last year, Byam Shaw celebrated its Centinary. It was an independent art school until 2003, when it was subsumed by […]
Is surface texture, pattern and ‘the natural’ an escape or a trap? Rosalind Davis talks to Andrew Bryant about this and other questions in her work written about in her Artists talking blog.
On getting an Arts Council Grant Two years ago, 1000 sheep appeared over night in the field surrounding my studio, based on an ex military defense unit near Salisbury. Today, is day 1 of ” A Thousand Sheep” art project. […]
Times flying along and trying to find time to really take hold of this and push it forward is a challenge but we’re making progress. Laurence and I met up again and thrashed out the final proposal and budget. Elements […]
At the start of the month I went to visit a very old, very dear friend in another city. He’s a little younger than I, just about to graduate from art school and step out into the world for the […]
This is my first post since my graduation, which is now approaching a year ago. So I will start by updating this and bringing it forward to where I am now.. After graduation I was selected for the Saatchi Gallery […]
Cabinet Gallery, London
14 January – 26 February
Guinea Pigs and Art … I am currently writing this from our somewhat lively studio, as clearly panic has kicked in and people have started to fret about work and deadlines. There is what seems like a house being built […]
The art auction raised over £2500 for the Pakistani Flood appeal. Everything was sold. I don’t know who bought mine and what it went for. I think the organisers will have enough on sorting out payment and admin etc. so […]
So finally I have given into having a studio and so far it feels really good. I was a bit unsure whether I would actually use it regularly but I have got into a habit of coming twice a week […]
Another day another couple of rejections for menial part-time jobs. Tonight’s the opening of Leeds Artist Book Fair and the Home From Home exhibition. I’m gutted I won’t be there. It’s going to be a great event. Over 80 artists […]