How was my concepts and contexts presentation? To be honest with what I wanted to say was rather what I thought nail pushing because I hardly got the chance to explain myself too much as I was put on the […]
Looking back on my learning agreement, what has changed since then? I do feel that I was a bit mind boggled at first with what I really wanted to do so my ideas were really a rough plan. At first […]
The UTOPIA 2016 festival is a year-long celebration at Somerset House, London marking 500 years since the publication of Thomas More’s influential text. Initiator and artistic advisor Ruth Potts explains how the festival came about, and explores the relationship between its programming and More’s groundbreaking ideas.
i’m taking to review my january early as i have commitments with my two training courses from tomorrow until the end of the month. this month has seen me walk back into quad in derby to visit their animation exhibition […]
My year has been punctuated by mentoring sessions made possible by the Re:View Bursary from a-n. Firstly, it’s important to say how great it was to be able to pay artists for their time and experience (and we all know […]
Jerwood Visual Arts commences its 10th anniversary year with an exhibition that explores how copyright legislation impacts on the work artists make. Pippa Koszerek speaks to Common Property curator Hannah Pierce and two of the commissioned artists, Owen G. Parry and Antonio Roberts.
Report on HOUSE VISIT’s research trip to Billytown, The Hague, in May 2014, funded by the a-n New Collaborations Bursary.
Some time between about 4.30 and 5.00pm this afternoon it suddenly struck me, and now I know what I want to make. It came as something of a surprise – quite unbidden – as I was tidying Tim’s studio after […]
Clara Casian reflects on her responsibility towards her adopted city and its interconnected web of possibilities Jamboree provided me with a good knowledge on how people and places operate outside my area. I lived in Manchester for a few years […]
I’ve been looking at artists that reference film within their work in an attempt to understand why I use film within my work and what role it plays within my work. I know that I really like the idea of […]
The puzzle is lying pretty much as it was before Christmas, I have sorted out a lot of the edge pieces and even got some good runs started, though somehow I am not finding/making time for it. Actually I am […]
Spike Associate Laurie Lax gained clarity and confidence at Jamboree – and a national network of couches Only a certain kind of person would sign up to sleep on a gallery floor for three nights with a bunch of strangers. […]
In this opening post LOW PROFILE discuss the motivations and aims behind its new residential workshop model. We feel pretty invisible. We’ve been around for a while and we’ve done lots of things we are proud of, but we remain, […]
The founder and director of Situations Claire Doherty has been recognised in the 2016 New Year’s Honours list for her outstanding contribution to the arts in the public realm, while artist Phyllida Barlow and Henry Moore Foundation director Godfrey Worsdale also receive honours for services to the arts.
I did think I was going to write a sort of review of the year, as that seems to be the done thing. But then I realised I just couldn’t be arsed. It was a bloody good year, I got […]
Lithuania First week back into uni didn’t actually happen until October for myself and a few others, as we travelled to Lithuania for a week’s residency (22nd – 29th September): We flew to Kaunas airport from Stansted, met by Rimantas […]
a year ago i reflected upon my 12 in 14 journey, today i start to consider how well my drilling has been this year. beginning this blog i had no preconceived ideas of where i would be at the […]
The museum has been quiet since a flurry of excitement about the epic Joseph Cornell exhibition at the Royal Academy this Summer. I must confess that I’m finding it increasingly difficult to focus on this space with so much diversification […]
As I work more regularly with Tim it has been interesting to consider both the similarities and differences between our approaches to our own practices. Last week it occurred to me that artists have far (far!) less distance from their […]
This year has seen the Bristol-based public art commissioning organisation, Situations, present one of its most ambitious and high-profile events yet with Theaster Gates’ Sanctum project. In the first of our end of year series, its director looks back on a ‘breakthrough’ year and looks forward to more support for public art that is ‘temporary and unfolding’.
43 participants including adults and children 33 General Public 10 Artists/Creatives Point 1 – Suitcase People where asked if they wanted an International or Domestic residency and noted their responses on luggage labels. The scores for this where International […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here For the first time in ages, I’ve been feeling a bit of a stall in the way I write about my work. I have the work in my head, and in my sketchbook, but […]
It’s been a difficult week, but whenever I do this to myself, when I put myself in a position where I have to deliver on something that I am honestly not sure I can do successfully and I get […]
Work from the Posture series has left the studio building, its on show – which means its finished, complete. Any sense of satisfaction doesn’t immediately follow, rather the debrief, the autopsy, the learning curve, lessons to be reflected upon. It […]
