Well, a month has passed and I’m beginning to realise how much slower things move outside the comfort of the art school environment. I finally graduated at the beginning of November which was great, apart from having to come up […]
i’ve been spending time feeling a little more like i know what i’m doing. the open dialogue, after a i r time was such good time well spent last wednesday. if you’ve not got to an a i r time […]
I’ve now had over a week to reflect on two recent exhibitions, and Wednesday’s Air Open Dialogues event in Nottingham gave me an opportunity to discuss the thought processes that I have gone through more recently with the group of […]
EXPERIMENT I am nearly two months into my MA at Wimbledon. Three weeks ago during my first tutorial I was encouraged to experiment more. I gave myself a task – i bought a new sketch book and told myself to […]
I found last night’s “Where is Modern Art Now?”, on the BBC, heartening. Gus Casely-Hayford (GC-H) explored the position of the current art scene during the recession and post YBA celebrity bling. He asked: ‘Where do you go when being […]
Sharing with Rachael today and considering that not only is it important for the work to flow naturally, but the collaboration itself does too and it is, which is good. We have not had chance for many meetings, but it […]
Sarah Lucas told Tracey Emin she had better be an artist because there was nothing else she could do – so says Emin in an interview re The Shop she and Lucas opened. I have usually found a sense of […]
Various, Birmingham
4 – 8 November 2009
Various, Birmingham
4 – 8 November 2009
Hello Sorry for the late bulletin this week, we wanted the new issue out before we did it but the printer has been playing us up so it looks like a Wednesday release now but it’s a good one, if […]
Eleonora Schinella considers the alternative perspectives on the art world through both the exhibitions reviewed, and the reviews themselves when researching Interface as an alternative archive.
Well it is certainly an interesting collaboration with Rachael. The instinctive element to our ideas, forming whilst working on our own, is as mysterious as the project, in a good way. I don’t know whether it is the House, or […]
Very busy week, exciting in work as The Forestry Commission have just agreed to re-instate Raumlabor’s Jantar Mantar for one day only in Southport, so I’m busy helping organise that. Photo here if you want to see it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/liverpoolbiennial/393… I […]
Richard Taylor in conversation with Christine Gray, MA student in Participatory & Community Arts at Staffordshire University
Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
28 October 2009
interesting how washing up provides a period of time to reflect on what’s happening right now. in theory i’m on an ma, i have a submission for a commission pending and a part time job application pending. daily i’m feeling […]
Wallace Collection, Manchester Square
14 October 2009 – 14 January 2010
28/10/2009 I’ve been trying to up keep a blog on blogspot.com tracking my residency at the Royal Masonic School. I find it hard to keep up with blogging. I’m easily over ambitious with. Nevertheless, I wanted to join this blogging […]
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.
Regents Park, London
15 – 18 October 2009
Another week, another significant amount of travelling, another lot of lugging my extremely heavy bag and knocking in to everyone and everything followed by my ‘Sorry, sorry, excuse me’. Some more trying to work out where I am suppose to […]
Mentoring with Bob Levene 21.09.09 I had a really useful mentoring session with Bob Levene in her studio, having posted her a DVD of my work. We discussed problems I had come across trying to fit into particular genres, and […]
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.
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall” Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938
This month’s blog selection.