40 Years 40 Artists: Zarah Hussain
Zarah Hussain discusses the impact on her practice of technological change and social media, and reflects on events of 2020.
Zarah Hussain discusses the impact on her practice of technological change and social media, and reflects on events of 2020.
Tai Shani discusses the need for change around artists’ pay and the “ethical gap between artists and institutions.”
Amy Gear and Daniel Clark, founders of Gaada in Shetland, describe how they are “creating an art world on an island.”
so here we are at the middle of august and our time in the space coming to an end. saying goodbye to the space was emotional – i hadn’t realised until it came to an end how much i had […]
As I said in my last post here, I’ve been involved in conversations with Elena Thomas and Stuart Mayes about the virtues of long term blogging. Our responses to some self-initiated questions were collated and published online on the a-n […]
On Thursday the 15 July, we successfully hosted first of online events titled: ‘The Power of Plants, the Future of Earth’. Tonight we have another event: check it out/ book here: How Like a Bee with Bee Time, Treebeekeepers Brotherhood & […]
Three long-form, long-term a-n Bloggers reflect on their blogs.
I have history with drawing What exactly is going on when I decide to make a drawing I wonder, what is so complex about this apparently simple decision to make my mark? Drawing has waxed and waned as a significant […]
Orkney Artist Bursary Research Trip
This Blog is about undertaking a large private commission within it’s deadline, with an incurable illness, during the Covid Pandemic.
What a difference a week, or two, makes! As if I needed reassurance that I enjoy hands-on doing the four day ’art camp’ (non-residential!) and five days of distributing ’art-bags’ demonstrated to me just how detrimental six months of computer-based […]
Talking to other artists, it is clear that ‘collaboration’ can mean a whole range of things, and taking the time to discuss examples of successful partnerships helped to reveal a range of possibilities. 1 Joy and Gill are keen to find […]
In January 2021, Covid restrictions meant that Gill and Joy were to start their dialogue through zoom meetings. The first conversation uncovered their very similar histories as creative practitioners with portfolio careers – both had periods of work in industry, […]
I have a strange relationship with my sketch book(s) I think… I have two on the go. One is A5, a tie-up Muji thing, with things poking out of it, receipts, photos, cards and envelopes. It is written in as […]
Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows.
Tomorrow is the first day of the four day children’s summer school and I am both excited and nervous. It has been a year since I last ran a workshop and I am feeling out of practice. I am pretty […]
This week I seem to have been talking about myself a lot. Hopefully not in a trumpet-blowing way though. I have been asked to record two podcasts. It’s a coincidence in terms of recording, that they both happened this week. […]
Chris Sharratt talks to three Fine Art tutors about the challenges of teaching during a global pandemic.
Larry Achiampong reflects on the role of art as “a place to conversate, to agree, to disagree, to hope, to dream, to imagine, to debate.”
Harold Offeh outlines how his success as an artist “has been built on the hard efforts, work and activism of previous generations.”
Mark Titchner describes the role of art in engendering empathy and how artists “hold up a muddy mirror to the world”.
Bedwyr Williams considers the role of art and the main changes he’s experienced as an artist over the last 20 years.
Image description: Sonia Boue is a white middle aged woman, wearing a black jumper and black rimmed glasses. She has short cropped hair and the photograph shows her using a brush and mirror set which has been collaged with photographs […]
This week I’m going to pick up a plate from a print-maker in Spike Island (Bristol) that is part of the bursary I was awarded in 2020 by a-n. I want to talk a bit about this because with the […]