(9th April 2016) THIS TIME LAST WEEK A week ago on the 2nd April (and slightly longer once I have posted this blog post) I was in London at Arts Admin Toynbee Studios for a weekender workshop with artist Vlatka […]
I’ve been preparing a new piece of work for a brief group showing coming up in late May in a temporary location. Our gallery, once a car show room, is located just around the corner from my studios on a […]
Everything all at once. I have realised I am not very good at introducing my work (currently reading ‘The Art Rules’ by Paul Klein). One of my aims this year is to get my work into at least 6 shows/venues […]
I am trying to take myself less seriously – I get all involved in my subject matter and forget to laugh at myself. And now I am diving in to my current concerns… The rhythm of making calico boards for […]
At the recent Art Is… event at Tate Modern, the Freelands Foundation gathered together a cast of artists, educators, gallery directors and more to present a series of talks and discussions about the idea of socially useful art, the importance of art education, and the role of creative freedom for artists. Fisun Guner reports.
This blog tracks and follows the developments taking place during the bursary time. It will be used to inform my own process and practice as time moves forward and act as a reflective journal and means of gaining feedback or to develop conversations and dialogue
My studio space, more photos: These photos are relevant for potential hanging of work. Notes I use the Notes app on both my I-pad and I-phone a lot, I find it is easier than pen and paper for general notes […]
On Thursday 23 June, the EU Referendum will ask UK voters whether the country should remain a member of the European Union or leave. As the debate for and against Brexit intensifies, Munira Mirza makes the case for artists and those in the arts to vote to leave, while Clymene Christoforou argues that the UK should remain ‘at home’ in Europe.
My mentoring year has started well; I received confirmation of funding for a project I’ve been planning since relocating to the Highlands (more on that soon) and I recently went to the Working Together Symposium, organised by the Wysing Arts […]
So a couple of days ago I completed step one of my professional development bursary plan and joined “Be Smart About Art”. I also contacted its founder, Susan Mumford to arrange my one-to-one sessions. Now some of you may be […]
Recipients of the latest round of a-n bursaries have been announced, with over £32,000 awarded to a-n Artist members to support research trips to countries including Ukraine, China and USA.
Play has been on my mind recently … to be completely honest Play has been on my floor recently! Since return from Stockholm in late February the piece has been lying on my living room floor waiting to be […]
The London-based artist Ben Cove, whose work explored art and design history with particular reference to modernism, has died unexpectedly after a short illness. Artist Emily Speed pays tribute to her friend and his work, while also collecting the thoughts of other artists and curators.
Some Notes on my work.at UCS Practice.work done and work in progress Blog Notes. This work was one of the last pieces that I have made in my old studio at Martelsham Suffolk. It is now in the Exhibition at […]
The STEAMHouse project will see the former Typhoo tea factory in Digbeth transformed through over £14 million of funding into a creative space featuring studios, workshops, equipment and support staff.
Ethnocide Blurb https://youtu.be/bLt_c4dcgHA ‘While entire cultures and livelihoods are wiped off the Earth, the knowledge within them is being spilled out of the global cultural landscape and heritage. As much as the actual local landscape is being destroyed, the […]
i like easter. it’s the first big formal holiday of the year and lasts for 4 days. in recent years it’s often been the scene of an ambitious decorating project. this year it’s been the scene of relaxation away from […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I am interested in the concept of cognitive dissonance. It is a very human condition. We don’t practice what we preach. The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. I can quite […]
After reflecting on my subject matter, it led me to also think about the sources I use for my portraits, particularly why I use photographs rather than working from life. I think it has always been a big part of […]
It occurred to me the other evening, as I was proof reading English texts for this year’s Supermarket catalogue and magazine, that there is no reason why artists cannot work with both commercial galleries and artist-led initiatives. Supermarket is celebrating […]
I was excited to be introduced to the book Hyperdrawing at the start of the term. Reading more about performance and drawing indulged my long standing love of lines and gestural marking and I hoped might give me the […]
Launched on International Women’s Day, the idle women narrowboat will tour the waterways of Lancashire and West Yorkshire until 2017, connecting and initiating art by women throughout the region via a series of floating residencies. Sara Jaspan talks to the women behind the project and finds something to smile about in the midst of Lancashire’s biting council cuts.
It has taken me a while to be able to write about this last event I hosted at the University of Salford, Overcoming barriers to artists’ residencies as I am so critical of my own performance and a little […]
A trip to visit Sam Wingate, MA Visual Communication student brought with it a tour of the architectural rabbit warren that is the Royal College of Art. A complexity of stairs and doorways, upwards, downwards, sideways: studio rooms, technology rooms, […]
Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making is a new touring exhibition that presents works by renowned outsider artists alongside those of self-taught artists who face barriers to the art world because of health, disability, social circumstance or isolation.
