I have been invited to a speed networking event next Friday to pass on my experiences to young graduates in Derby. I usually avoid these networking events like the plague but I’ve accepted this opportunity because it is focussed. I’ts […]
New to this blogging lark. Just starting final year, staring down the barrel of the dissertation but established in a great studio space and with keys to a shared studio in my village. Just allowing myself to get a little […]
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists and makers take their practice to the next level.
This is the first piece of work I made after finishing studying at Camberwell College of Art. The work was made for a group show of graduate, at the Former Alliance Gallery, Peckham, London.
University Of Derby, Derby, Nottingham
1 March – 26 September 2010
This is the first piece of work I made after finishing studying at Camberwell College of Art. The work was made for a group show of graduate, at the Former Alliance Gallery, Peckham, London.
1. decisions? so here i am. having recently graduated from fine art at nottingham trent university, i have decided to throw myself into a new and completely unfamiliar city – maybe missing that initial buzz of exhilaration that comes with […]
Yes, time to limber up my digits and get tapping away again! So much to report on since my last post which was…a while ago. I have delivered four of my Opal stone sculptures safely down to “Barbed” in London. […]
Here follows a first draft of my secret plan and Arts Council Grant proposal. I did worry that revealing my plans so early might scupper them. But this didn’t stop Goldfinger or Blofelt or Scaramanga or Dr No or Hugo […]
I have only ever had one really bad collaborative experience… Project participants were put into pairs. It was organised so that artists who didn’t know each other were put together and given a week in which to work towards a […]
Crocus Gallery, Nottingham
17 August – 4 September 2010
The saddest thing that I received in my email today was an invitation to the opening of an exhibition by a group of recent graduates. I read through the explanatory text, and realised with a sudden jolt that it read […]
Selected round-up of forthcoming events, training courses and professional development opportunities from the world of new media arts and imaging.
Core Gallery is hurtling towards ‘ The Eighteenth Emergency’ Opening this Thursday Brought to us by a-n’s artist talking editor Andrew Bryant who is exhibiting as well as curating an exhibition that brings together the work of iartists Frauke Dannert, […]
Ryan Riddington reflects on doing an MFA at The Slade, eight years on from his first degree, his reasons for doing the course, the challenges of working in a communal studio space and where he is now.
As recent graduate Alfie Strong embarks on a journey of self-discovery, he shares highlights of his final year and passage as an artist to the other side.
It’s difficult to plant your flag in the ground when your position keeps shifting. By which I mean, I’ve done so much reading and thinking and discussing over the past few days; I’ve been privileged enough to hear so many […]
