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One year on: Sheyda Porter
Currently studying for an MA in curating, the Northumbria University graduate has been busy developing her practice and project-making skills.
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A Q&A with… Thomson & Craighead, video and internet artists
London and Scotland-based artistic duo Thomson & Craighead have created a new generative moving image work for the Look Again festival in Aberdeen. They talk to Jack Hutchinson about the impact of the internet on our lives and how splitting their time between rural and urban areas has benefitted their practice.
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Draw the line, then walk it.
I’m not particularly new to art. It’s been an interest for years. My commitment to it has waxed and waned in the past, just as life changes. So after an illness and plenty spare time in respite several years ago, […]
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Leg 1: Hackney Outdoor
A 5-minute walk from my flat in Hackney Central to Hackney Downs Overground Station. The land is owned by Hackney Borough Council. NO. OF CCTV CAMERAS ENCOUTERED: 7 CCTV OPERATORS: NSL Services Group on behalf of Hackney Council FOOTAGE STORAGE: […]
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i am
out of the window this morning i see a flat monochrome sky. in front of it a flat green tree and flat brown bricked buildings. my cup of tea is empty and the puppy is pressed against my right leg. […]
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Autistic power in the workplace
Yes, we do have power. My post is not a simplification of wider more intractable structural power imbalances which work against autistics, but rather seeks to address a specific area in which power may be regained. Society tends to ignore […]
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A Q&A with… Keith Piper, artist, filmmaker, and cultural archaeologist
Keith Piper’s exhibition at New Art Exchange, ‘Unearthing the Banker’s Bones’, explores the idea of what our society’s relics might look like from a future perspective. The founder member of the BLK Art Group talks to Wayne Burrows about the themes contained within the work and the continued importance of political and social questions to his practice.
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Vår konst – Open studios iv
Next to my name and venue number in the guide it says (because that is what I wrote in my entry form): Installation and objects. I wonder if people have been intrigued or confused by that description. From chatting with […]
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Culture
Culture My father used to say to me, “lucky your pretty with your Dyslexia, at least you can be a glamour model, no need for brains in that game”. It seemed evident very early on that I would be […]
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An Interview with Rachel Bailey
Rachel Bailey is an artist I’ve got to know through the artist peer mentoring group over the course of the past 2 years (she was one of our original members). As artists, we have shared a common preoccupation with themes […]
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Vår konst – Open studios iii
Just as realised that it was almost time to ‘close’ yesterday my phone rang. It was Eva, who I first met when I visited her studio during last year’s Vår konst, she apologised for being late and wanted to know […]
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Vår konst – Open studios ii
What I liked about the pace of visitors on Friday was that I was able to spend time with each of them. There was only one occasion when two groups overlapped. With the kind of work that I make, and […]
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The Science
Science is not all about facts. This much I knew before meeting my partners from the scientific community. But now, having met with my new colleagues I’m much more aware of the many affinities between research-based contemporary sonic art and scientific […]
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Raku – exploring alchemy in clay
I had the pleasure of taking part in a Raku workshop on the 8th of April 2017 at the fantastic Seymour Road Studios in Lady Bay, Nottingham. It was here that my passion for clay began several years ago under […]
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Bob’s your artist for Brexit Blues.
Drawing made after a recent visit to the Robert Rauschenberg exhibition at Tate Modern and linking this to the UK’s formal withdrawal from the EU.
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Assembly Margate: programme of artists’ workshops, talks and events announced
a-n’s touring programme of workshops, talks and get-togethers begins in early May with Assembly Margate, devised in collaboration with Margate-based social artist Dan Thompson. Stephen Palmer reports.
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Untitled blog post from "Keeping It Going"
‘Keeping It Moving’ the blog I wrote while making the short film with Henrietta Thomas, was very much about recording the process & final outcome of a specific piece of work. It was created for the sole purpose of documenting […]
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sound recording
sometime around the end of last year a friend contacted me and asked if i could meet up with her and a friend who was embarking on a film project. i of course said yes and duly met up, shared […]
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Sophrosune
Sophrosune “Error would be removed from human life, because each person would do only what they knew and would leave what they did not know to that which did” (Donald Watt) The piece of work I am currently engaged with, […]
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Christopher Wool
Another artist I have taken inspiration from is Christopher Wool, who is a contemporary American painter. Best known for his paintings with large stenciled letterforms, the bold, black strokes of Wool’s text is contrasted against white backgrounds for maximum […]
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Emerging themes, embracing shadows!
I don’t know if it’s just the time of year but I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the direction of my practice and how my concerns have both evolved and clarified into some conceptual ideas that will impact on my ways of working.
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Brexit and artists’ copyright: making the case for continued protection of creators’ rights
What will Brexit mean for artists’ copyright and what should artists be thinking about and doing as the process of disentanglement from the EU begins? Abby Yolda, head of communications at the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS), outlines the organisation’s view.
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Howard Hodgkin and London
Today of all days was a good day to visit London. Out of the shock and horror of events on Wednesday emerged a palpable sense of solidarity, caring, love and hope. Walking through Trafalgar Square after my visit to the […]
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Aim….. (post 2)
Within this blog I aim to break down and better understand the themes which run through my work. As a starting point I have created a couple of mind maps which consist of the two main themes which run through […]
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Untitled blog post from "Walking with Artists creating new Encounters"
Precario Developing an artist led walk from the Dundas Gallery to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh in July. I have now started the process of preparing for a walk in Edinburgh using the poem by Cecilia Vicuña Thread and […]