After the degree Show Oct 11 The Degree Show finished towards the end of June and then over the first 4 weeks I focused on entering formal competitions: New Sensations, The Jerwood Drawing Prize & Great Britons. I also made […]
A new commission for Red Nile Projects In August 2011 I took part in a Red Nile Projects Factory Nights event in Stoke. http://www.rednile.org. The Factory Nights series give creative people of all disciplines a chance to visit, learn about […]
Morning! This year I got shortlisted for a commission and a residency that ended up being awarded to 1) a social enterprise and b) a design agency. They were small/medium to large things – between 2 – 12k, so substantial […]
Spinning plates – This feels like a good metaphor for where I’m at. My heads busy but I feel like I’m actually stopping myself from moving forward. Where am I going? How do I get there? 1) Projects for schools; […]
A survey of commissioning projects and public art consultancies around the UK.
Feeling the love. Twitter is my favourite at the moment. I talk a lot of rubbish but occasionally, really great discussion breaks out and people share things you perhaps wouldn’t expect. I’m @speedina if you’re not on there already. Yesterday […]
In response to Claire White’s letter in the November issue, I want to agree with her analysis of artists and how many find themselves as part of community projects and development.
how to emerge? Blogging versus Tweeting? Last night I attended a talk at the Peckham Space led by Andrew Bryant on the subject of blogging. The blogger-speakers were Alex Pearl and Aliceson Carter. Long before the talk, and in my […]
Interesting, just editing my latest version and again have been asked to cut out remarks that could hinder peoples chances of future commissions. People have felt comfortable in talking openly to me, but once given a chance to listen to […]
Some images of the Bike Wheel Dome I made for Small World Festival 2010 and the Bike Wheel Shelter I made to permanently stay at WoWo campsite (Sussex) 2011. Making these shelters coincided with the launch of Room for Imagination; […]
Below is a sample blog post from http://redundantalex.blogspot.com A basic summing up of the last month would go as follows. I am redundant (from my place of employment, an FE college in Suffolk, actually Ipswich, ok its Suffolk New College). […]
Article five part one… So what does happen when a choreographer is situated in the role of curator? From our discussion I glean that Siobhan put together the collaborators for this series of commissions, in a way was in essence […]
Alexis investigates, article five: A conversation with Siobhan Davies about dance thinking Recently choreographer Siobhan Davies has seemingly turned curator, commissioning four new collaborations between dancers and visual artists, the results of which are being shown in an exhibition titled […]
Various venues, Manchester
1 October – 27 November 2011
Welcome to episode 4 of creative conversations. http://creativedialog.wordpress.com/ This week I visit Weymouth seafront, where I meet local photographer Paul Russell. He talks about the difference between a documentary photographer and a street photographer. A definition of street photography is; […]
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London
11 October 2011 – 11 March 2012
Since graduating from Leeds University in 2007 Joe Simpson has developed his craft as a painter blending his practice with commissions and more personal projects. With his show ‘Musician Portraits’ open in London, and his portait of Maxi Jazz in the BP Portrait Award 2011, he takes time out to fill us in on his career so far.
Digital capabilities have revolutionised artists’ working practices, from transforming the kind of works they make to how they interact with each other and audiences.
It’s sixteen years since the Disability Discrimination Act came into force; so are disabled artists more in the mainstream now, or have the goal posts just moved sideways asks Emma Geliot.
Highlighting just some of the festivals, events and exhibitions taking place across the North of England this season.
I’ve become distracted lately by a horrible issue with Orange, which I wrote in this blog: http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.com/ Still no news from Ofcom yet, however, I’ve since been busy applying for funding for the Empty Shops project and just to be […]
Over the past five years, the words Turning Point have been read, heard, written and spoken with increasing frequency by people in the visual arts in England, but for many individual arts practitioners, in particular, the origins and activities of Turning Point remain a bit opaque. This briefing paper is for them and for anyone interested in understanding more about what Turning Point is and does.
James Rigler, Chatsworth Table, ceramic, marble, wood, steel, gold leaf, rope, 2011. Courtesy: Chatsworth House
