Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson and curator Emma Underhill discuss their collaboration on a project to create a sculptural ‘habitat’ that will contribute to the life cycle of birds in two urban garden locations.
Oh dear! Dissertation mad focus is getting in the way of sharing my potentially briliant (or more likely, jumbled) thoughts with the a-n crew. So i thought I’d post my freelance journal from my website, and also a couple of […]
I am not posting anywhere near as often as I should be. Last week was a good week- I attended the Jerwood drawing prize private view and prize giving, it was a tremendous turn out, and though not awarded anything […]
Back in the UK, slowly recovering from jetlag/brain-freeze, have set up a makeshift ‘office’ in my parents back bedroom, where I’m staying until I finish my dissertation and figure out what to do next. I miss my US-based partner like […]
I NEED THERAPY, NOT A BLOG. How and why does one experience incredibly unproductive weeks and then have a fantastically inspiring day or two? If I had the time and money, I would go back to University and study Psychology […]
I don’t know what to paint/draw. Need to live/read more. Good time to get on with one of those commissions. They have pretty distinct briefs, specifications.
I think there’s a need for some critical discourse to move my art on. At the moment, the people who see my work say all the right things, nod their heads, ‘it’s nice’. But they are not really engaging with […]
Sideshow will take place between October and December for the second time around whilst the quinquennial British Art Show visits Nottingham.
Thoughts from artists and arts professionals about how cuts in public spending will affect their future working pattern. Plus April Britski gives an account of how recent governmental decisions to cut arts funding have affected Canadian artists.
Selected round-up of forthcoming events, training courses and professional development opportunities from the world of new media arts and imaging.
Kate Raggett and Mandy Fowler give their recollections of an ambitious one-day land art workshop in rural Herefordshire that involved nearly 200 participants, several bales of straw, and a Cessna aircraft.
The Search Party event is just around the corner. Next weekend they will take on Lincoln in an epic table tennis tournament. Our intern Bethan has manged to get the Mayor to play the opening game, which promises to be […]
The past few weeks have been difficult. Working full time at The Shed means having to switch off my creative mind and switch on my organised, spreadsheet focused mind. I sort of can obssess about spreadsheets all day so moving […]
How we Met I met Ruth and Pete on an AA2A residency at Nottingham Trent University which started in November 2009. I had graduated in 2008 but had to move back to a small market town with little artistic activity […]
Decision time. And mass editing time. Despite having about 80gb worth of video footage, I’ll not being showing any of it (add harsh editing decisions to that). Carpet is staying but is having nothing done to it, no projections, nada. […]
North Yorkshire Open Studios 2010 – what a worthwhile opportunity to grab. The Sculpture Garden is a perfect venue for displaying the works alongside each other but on different levels and suddenly my tiny studio seemed quite big, cleared of […]
Public art projects, residencies and commissions in non-gallery spaces.
Last week I went to see the University of Lincoln Animation Degree Show, as I have been working with Animation during my AA2A scheme residency. I was very impressed with some of the work, most notably a very well made […]
How to Look?http://e-leven.co.uk/past/how-to-look/ Project Space 11, Plymouth City MarketWednesday 23rd June 2010 – Thursday 22nd July 2010 Project Space 11ʼs prominent and visible position within a busy market bringsinto question how contemporary art can be accessible to a non-art audience.Four […]
