easing back into comfortable shoes. it's thursday of bdo world darts week. disappointingly the wizard was dazzled and now returns to oz to prene and wait for another contest. adams has got through, yet again making a lesser player look […]
Andrea Hawkins, Head of Public Engagement at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery and artist Lucienne Cole talk about an innovative approach to publicly-engaged art.
Group Process is the latest season of work to be staged by Radar, Loughborough University’s contemporary arts programme. Running into February; it involves new and adapted commissions produced by artists Lisa Cheung, Yvonne Droge Wendel, public works / myvillages.org, Parfyme and Yara El-Sherbini.
Temporary Art Space Q & A Part 2 Why “Temporary Art Space”? We weren’t keen on calling it a gallery as it can be a very powerful word which can distance the art and the audience. We want to establish […]
BFI Southbank, London
6 December 2008
TATE BRITAIN, LONDON
30 September 2008 – 18 January 2009
Lucinda Holmes has recently re-located to China and become involved with an emerging arts centre called [the studio] that is working towards developing an artists community in Shanghai. In this article she records her impressions of the galleries she has encountered in the city, and discusses how experiencing a different culture has effected her work as an artist.
Elysium Artspace, Swansea
14 – 22 November 2008
Jupiter Room We worked it out, and from the first time we sat down together to discuss how we would go about putting on and what we would produce for our two person show, its been five months. Its certainly […]
Cockpit Arts’ chief executive Vanessa Swann and business development manager Ellen O’Hara speak to Jane Watt about Cockpit’s unique incubator scheme for designer-makers in London.
Friday: Reorganised studio. Not just physical space but some kind of mental space too. It feels good to see blank white walls. For as long as I can remember I’ve had a large table in my studio – at Dartington […]
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
I was interested to read your letters from Chris Young in the October magazine and the later response from Jon Bowen in November.
Art at the Centre is an award scheme from Arts Council England, South East that seeks to involve artists from the outset of regeneration projects across the region. As part of this scheme, Maidstone Borough Council looked to develop an Artists’ Quarter in the heart of the town to promote the area’s wealth of creative talent. Here video-media artist Margherita Gramegna and consultants FrancisKnight talk about their involvement in this process and the resulting work, Artists Don’t Bite.
Independent curator Jeni Walwin looks at issues relating to selling work and examines a number of different ways that artists can engage with the art world on a commercial basis.
Maturity. I started this blog as part of a re-engagement with my practice, now I feel that my practice and I are on the brink of a significant shift. It’s exciting and a little frightening. I know I’m resisting it […]
Review deadline this week. After much deliberation and complete lack of having seen anything relevant to my practice, even though things not relevant excited me, I chose to write about David Blandys ‘The search For Mingering Mike’ at the Bluecoat […]
Arghhh. I know I'll feel better tomorrow, but seriously, how do you review something relevant to your practice when your practice hangs by a very fine thread? I got it wrong this year, but this year it matters. I'd rather […]
Last night i returned to Swansea from London, and i am still tired!I have so much information and opinions in my head, so many new visual memories and blisters on my feet from pounding the pavements! I managed to find […]
Instead of making my usual pilgrimage to London I decided to head north this weekend to see a show by Lucy Harrison at Norwich Outpost. So for a third of the fare for the same distance I washed up in […]
I am in touch with someone from The Forum, which describes itself as "an innovative weblog featuring reviews, previews, opinion pieces and interviews from independent arts writers." She has sent me four questions which have actually been very timely in […]
thank goodness it's monday. the weekend is behind me, i'm feeling a little more like myself, that sapped energy i spoke of in the last post was indeed a warning of something on the horizon, tiredness like i'd not experienced […]
Taught my Critical Fine Art Practice students today all day in Fabrica sat around the large round discussion table in the gallery. It was part of my plan to explore new environments for teaching in. It went very well. The […]
Sarah Thelwall reveals that there is not one art market but several different ones. These markets are very different in terms of the artists, gallerists and collectors who participate and develop them. This Art market tour articulates the main markets and looks at what drives them.
Friday morning, ive now taken down and moved out of the installation room. Spending this afternoon making sure its in a good clean condition for the next student. I didnt manage to partake in the performance orginally planned, however i […]
