This week…um…trying to think back all the way to Monday. Monday, I was at the gallery (work, boring, yawn, yawn) Tuesday I had a play day at the studio. I enjoyed it. It seems I have started a routine of […]
Thursday, 29 October 2009 Hanging a show at ICIA University of Bath, Artspace 1 is an odd experience. Postgraduate students and lecturers are constantly passing through, avidly looking at half hung work and passing comment. One woman (jokingly?) accused me […]
Today was the day! I am now the proud owner of a set of keys! After all the waiting and building snag-list sorting, I at last have access to this fantastic building. Had an introductory meeting with some councillors and […]
Artist Profile Jonas Ranson Achieved through treatment in both digital conversion and photographic silkscreen technique, Jonas Ranson’s compositions describe imagined algorithmic and structural ‘episodes’. Slyly garish black interstices, a representative veiling and distorting, the print works act as codes that […]
To go along with the laser cutting I will be working on this semester, I will also attend this Symposium in Loughborough where my tutor, Sian Bowen, will be the key note speaker… Cutting Edge : Lasers and Creativity Loughborough […]
I don’t think there’s any need to introduce myself, I have been blogging for a while now. For those who don’t know me have a look at my website (www.lauraball.co.uk). Sadly, my previous unedited blog took a sudden nose dive […]
Project coordinator Ed Adam and consultant Sovay Berriman tell Jane Watt how Alias (Artists-led Initiative Advisory service) has developed over the last ten years. They discuss the dilemmas that artist-led organisations face and offer their survival tips.
Artist Rona Smith, public art consultant Vivien Lovell and architect Soraya Khan discuss the development of Rona’s ambitious North Elevation work which was permanently installed at Lumen United Reform Church last year.
The quality of art education offered in UK universities has been regularly under the spotlight in recent times. In this month’s Debate, an MA graduate gives an account of the critical situation, and proposes an alternative system to offer education for artists.
It’s Hard To Make a Stand by Steve Bishop
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
10 – 25 October 2009
You say that your work reflects or is influenced by film. What would you say was your earliest film influence, and what has inspired you more recently? The original version of Dr Zhivago stayed in my mind for years – […]
Dr. Julia Horn, Joint Director of the Centre for Career Management Skills (CETL) at University of Reading talks to Jane Watt about the fascinating research project and online resource Beyond the PhD
Writer and editor Jane MacNamee came to visit me in my studio during September. We had the following interview for local and wider publicity about the project.. Hi Clare, are you usually based here as an artist? I’m based here […]
Ruth Ewan, Pound Hand in the Jungle, screenprint on found page, 2009.
I thought i’d go into more detail on our development weekend, and the benefits of using some of our Arts Council budget to employ a mentor. The 11-12 of September saw us reside in Lincoln for 2 days to work […]
Abigail Branagan has been advising artists and makers for over a decade. She is a freelance business advisor as well as Business Development Manager at Cockpit Arts in London. She talks to Jane Watt about what makes a good advice session and how makers are weathering the economic storm.
Erica Donovan, If you like this, you might also like this… (I), 25-colour silkscreen print (edition of 50) 40x40cm, 2009.
Its about time I made the transition from Degrees Unedited to Artists Talking, having promised myself I would. Its an odd thing finding yourself suddenly outside the safety of the education system. I have allowed myself a break (albeit one […]
i’ve spoken to a dr in birmingham today as a direct result of not enough applications being received by staffordshire university for their ma fine art. months ago, while still an undergraduate, i added to the why do an ma […]
Curiouser & Curiouser! Dunbar Arts Hub Aug/Sept09 – Curiously lots of Mad Hatters opened the exhibition – dining around a huge table on Dunbar High St with cucumber sandwiches, fairy cakes and the queen of heart tarts! Knitted and edible! […]
