With support from a-n, the London-based artist has launched an online store offering high quality, affordable, limited edition works and publications by artists dedicated to exploring place. Jack Hutchinson talks to her about online sales and research beyond the art world.
Collage- Chance -Mapping -Movement- Scores
Five a-n News writers – based in London, Liverpool and Glasgow – pick, in no particular order, their top five exhibitions/art events of the year.
Being elsewhere There are benefits to leaving home to make work. I left behind my usual commitments and responsibilities, creating internal space, a blank studio and real time. At home my role changes, in accordance with the time of day […]
PRINTED OPINIONS/Lubaina Himid (Turner Prize 2017) WARNING: Some explicit content. Today I was fortunate enough to attend a Hull 2017 Writing Workshop (Printed Opinions) at the Ferens Art Gallery, led by performance-based British Fine Artist Nicola Singh and supported by Art-Writer and Turner Prize 2017 Co-Curator George […]
A Mindfulness Exercise, Written For You Epistemological philosophers have been theorising upon how we know for a very long time. Over the coming minutes I invite you to see how I see, and reflect on the type of experience that […]
Lancaster 2017 I wasn’t entirely sure what I was letting myself in for when I received the happy news that a-n and RD1st had accepted my application to undertake an 8 day coaching for artists programme. My initial reasons for […]
My name is Fraser Briggs and I have been asked to blog about my involvement in the Artist as Activist talks that Hack and Host did earlier this year. I make shit out of shit. I first […]
This Christmas, ditch the high street and discover original artworks and handcrafted gifts by independent artists and makers who will be opening their studios or putting up their market stalls at a range of venues throughout the UK.
Stranger Things made me write ‘and beyond…’ after the title of this blog and I probably need stop ending things with divvy ‘spooky’ sayings – but it’s a temporary wonder and will fade! It’s a cracking bit of telly though and […]
Immortalizing the sculpture – death is part of life. The humanity of ‘process’ – the cycle of a project starts from an ending, a death of sorts. I gave up working in the way I had been and started with […]
The recent ‘What Should White Culture Do? Art, Politics, Race’ brought academics and artists together for a day-long symposium at the Royal College of Art. Sonya Dyer contends that, judging by the approach of some of those talking at the event, the answer to the question is, ‘Much more than this’.
So, those wooden boxes displaying matchstick toys, trinkets and wooden type hung on D’s walls were once all plan chests of alphabets, fonts and points ‘Type Cases’. On this course we got to rummage in stacks of drawers […]
Just returned from a week of collaborative exploration in Köln. Kölner Graphikwerkstatt is the most conducive workshop I have ever worked in. On the edge of the city centre, the building is old with three windows across the front and […]
Friday Arriving late, first impressions; conversations into the early morning, exchanging ideals and theories, plotting courses to follow for the journey ahead. Oh, it’s cold, it’s expensive, but it’s so clean! Journey? 1st time on an artist residence, so some […]
The opportunity to think about the world we live in was interesting in visiting Oslo in Norway for 4 days. As part of the treeline project initiated and set up by Jaime Jackson this was an interesting opportunity to make […]
The project I undertook with help from an A-N travel bursary, allowed me firstly to explore parts of Finland I had not yet been to, this was one of the main reasons for its undertaking. I secondly wanted to put myself […]
It wasn’t on my a-n project proposal, in fact it’s out of the blue, but the current editor of Printmaking Today, Leonie Bradley invites me to speak at Cork Printmakers‘ symposium about the periodical from a reader’s perspective. The symposium […]
Alongside the launch of its first curated programme, this week Tendency Towards opens its inaugural exhibition – an interdisciplinary showcase of graduate artists from four Scottish art schools. Richard Taylor finds out more about this new artist-run initiative in Scotland’s ‘Granite City’.
Back in May I spent a week at Grafische Atelier Alkmaar or GAA as it’s known. Alkmaar – roughly a 50 minute drive from Amsterdam – is an historic Dutch town famous for its cheese market. I went to make […]
So this will be my penultimate post on this blog. I want the final post to be forward looking in how the bursary activity will continue within my practice. Before that, I want to share an evaluation So September came […]
Reflections I am so glad to have had the chance to visit Aarhus during this year’s City of Culture Festival. It was such a good opportunity to see a great deal of site-specific artwork in a short space of time within a […]
One of the exciting and brand-new developments that has taken place as part of the Made in Korea project is the creation of a mobile phone app. This is Joseph Young’s doing so he gets all the credit for this! […]
Thinking about a new work for a group show, May 2018 … The show celebrates a significant anniversary of an independent gallery that I showed with in 2009. I like the idea of making something that references the piece that […]
Lately I’m wondering about why I blog… I started writing in June 2011 (I think) on a-n.co.uk as a way of recording and talking through my practice while I did my MA. I didn’t stop, and here we are almost […]
