It has been a long time since I have posted in this blog and it’s because this archiving process is very time consuming, I think I need to start to keep a diary. From this process, three different collections have become […]
A new exhibition and free pop-up summer school from Create London and the William Morris Gallery celebrates the cultural and educational legacy of Walthamstow School of Art, which from 1957 to 1967 became a hotbed of artistic ideas and talent. Lydia Ashman talks to two of the people behind the ‘Be Magnificent’ project.
where i’m sitting is a bit eerie, it’s slightly dark with no view of the outside world. the heatwave at the moment giving opportunities to practice making shade and keeping cool. our puppy still insists on looking out of the […]
“Under this mask, another mask. I will never finish removing all these faces.” (Claude Cahun, 1930) I recently went to see the Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask at the National Portrait Gallery. This exhibition brings […]
Operating alongside my in-depth look at my own commute, I am undertaking a series of interviews with my co-workers at the Barbican looking at their commutes too. In keeping with my overall approach to this period of research, these commuting […]
After launching for the first time in Athens in April, the quinquennial art exhibition Documenta 14 has just opened across 35 venues and numerous outdoor sites in its home city of Kassel, Germany. Ten a-n artist members, who visited Kassel with the support of an a-n Travel bursary, pick their top three works from the vast city-wide programme.
I’m behind with blogging! A familiar sensation – if I don’t blog in the moment, the practice can drift. So I’m picking up again, an hour or so before another meeting with Simon Haynes, my filmmaker and collaborator for this […]
A description of a short course I attended with the potter Tanya Gomez at West Dean College with the support of a Professional Development Bursary from a-n, The Artist Information Company
Market Gallery’s recent Free Market symposium – supported by an a-n Artist Led Bursary – brought together thinkers and doers to discuss issues around ‘cultural resources in crisis’ and was in part informed by the Glasgow gallery’s own precarious situation. Chris Sharratt reports on three days of thinking beyond the usual.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Kahlil Gibran I am not a natural learner. Well, not in the traditional, educational model of; linear, sequential, bite-sized chunks type learning, […]
Selected from listings in the a-n Degree Shows Guide 2017, 11 degree shows opening across the UK.
The artist Alexander James disagrees. He has been producing underwater photographs of flowers and people for the last three decades, always wrapped up in Romanticism: the melancholia of everything being temporary and already gone; the exquisite beauty; the fated end; […]
Where are we now? Our Hack & Host a.n “Artist-led Group Bursary” funded project kicked off on Friday 12th May. The intention of the project, titled “Thrash Out: Artists as Political Activists” is to explore the notion of the artist […]
Narrative from the RD1st coaching accreditation programme 2017, course fees funded and attendance gratefully supported by a bursary from a-n, The Artists Information Company…
During the opening week of her Scotland + Venice film, ‘Spite Your Face’, artist Rachel Maclean spoke to Emily Sparkes about politics, inappropriate nose-touching and pasta pomodoro.
Trying to focus my work into a sensible, acceptable, believable, academic Research Question on which to hang my current art practice, is an ongoing and largely frustrating task. I’ve dithered about with Landscape, Sense of Place, Time, space and movement, […]
Between the 7th July and 30th December 2017, 80 Contemporary British Paintings will go on display in 4 Chinese art museums for the very first time.
It’s been a very busy couple of weeks but we got there. All ready and looking gorgeous, on time. So much has happened it’s hard to think back in order. Firstly, the customs problems did persist, with one box arriving […]
We asked this year’s Venice Biennale a-n travel bursary recipients and AIR Council members attending the biennale preview to tell us what their highlights were. They came back with 26 different recommendations – and a few repeats.
Launching my project to bring the very best British and Croatian naive artists working today, in a range of media, to a gallery or museum near you, with an outreach programme to encourage art making in the community – including a Call for Partners.
Sketchbooks – beware!! A place where ideas can die. A brainstorm on the brainstorm device. I as many artists do hold sketchbooks in an almost sacred high regard. They are intimately personal, show workings, ideas – good and bad, notes […]
As the final degree show approaches, it is difficult to believe that this process has lasted nearly three years. Generally, apart from the blog, the written component is finished and the show is all that stands between ‘us’ and that […]
i’m supporting a poorly back today by cleaning cupboards and catching up on housework in the kitchen. an at home day. my view through the window fills me with great joy. a monochromatic blue sky backs a splendidly fluid vibrant […]
The Experience in question is the pub open mic night. The variables in play are those of an adjusted set list due to illness… I’ve had a really bad sore throat and cold which meant my bandmates stepped in to […]
