I am packing up at school. The place is almost completely disserted and it feels as though term has truly ended, though I went to a rather interesting, if sparsely attended, lecture this morning. The workshops are silent and even […]
Liz Hill reflects on a Warwick Commission debate which revealed the enthusiasm of the creative industries for better creative and cultural education in schools – and the barriers to making it happen.
May Post…Revisited I’ve been on hiatus for 3 and a half months. It wasn’t intentional. I guess it just came naturally. The coming down from my last performance in January was much harder than I could have ever imagined…Suddenly I […]
Redeye’s National Photography Symposium, an annual gathering for ideas and discussion, takes place at the new Library of Birmingham this month. Redeye director Paul Herrmann explains what’s in store.
i haven’t managed to do anymore on my collaborative project recently, for various reasons, mostly to do with editing the material from the grotto, but I decided to go to a talk arranged by Artquest about collaboration for obvious reasons. […]
The shortlist for the inaugural East London Painting Prize didn’t represent the ethnic and cultural diversity of the area and, argues Gillian McIver, this reflects the UK art world’s stiflingly restrictive approach to artistic practice.
Charlotte Prodger has been announced as the recipient of the annual Margaret Tait Award, awarded to a Scottish or Scotland-based artist working in experimental film and/or moving image.
The first weekend in March is usually reserved for the International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair here in Leeds and this year was no exception. However, unlike previous years when it was held in Parkinson Court at the University of Leeds, […]
These will be my last few posts as my piece is almost ready for assessment. I feel pleased that it has worked out how I envisaged it, with a few minor alterations. Rather than 90 prints there are now 96. […]
BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND THE UNPERCEIVABLE After a visit to the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 I experienced Marc Quinn’s gigantic inflatable sculpture of a disembodied women gazing with purple eyes over the water from the not so distant island […]
Bloc, FBI, S1, &model, East St Arts, Basement Arts Project, Mexico, Sheffield and Leeds
16 – 17 May 2014
After what seems to be about a month, or maybe more, I am delighted to say that my second piece of cast glass is out of the kiln and ‘resting’. The process has taken twice as long as it should […]
A word on creative blocks When you rely on your creativity to pay the bills and build your reputation, you can’t afford to be short of ideas or the energy to put them into action. When you can’t get over […]
Paper making refresher lesson I have only made paper once before, and that was over 20 years ago, while at art college. I thought that as my project is mainly about paper making, that I should have a refresher lesson […]
I’m Jean McEwan, said an elderly Bradfordian lady. Me too I said. We laughed. She had seen my name outside the temporary exhibition space in the market and wanted to come in and see what what was happening. My daughter […]
#PayingArtists Part 1 This post was meant to be about my recently begun new collaboration funded by an a-n bursary, but I’ve been distracted by the #PayingArtists campaign so I’m going to write about this instead… That artists are paid […]
#PayingArtists Part 2 Now I must admit that, like any artist, I’ve done my fair share of work for free, enticed by the promise of “good exposure” and “looking great on my CV” etc… And yes, maybe, perhaps this was […]
Every day in the news there is something that just reinforces what a shocking Patriarchal world we live in. The latest horror story is from the Sudan where a woman – who is a doctor and eight months pregnant, has […]
Yesterday I went to the Open Forum session led by Matt Roberts Arts at the Bath Artists’ Studios where I had a one-to-one portfolio session with Matt Roberts where I had the chance to discuss with him ways to promote […]
For the past few weeks I have had my commercial head thoroughly screwed on. As a contemporary artist untroubled by the stigma that is ‘making a bit of money’, I have decided to thrust myself into the realm of selling […]
Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery has responded to widespread criticism from artists and withdrawn an advert for unpaid volunteers to help install a forthcoming exhibition by Glasgow artist Jim Lambie.
It’s life ‘n’ that innit? Gaaaah! Four weeks of illness. FOUR WEEKS! But thankfully, I am on the mend now and my energies are directed to the upcoming North Yorkshire Open Studios. My first attempt, so I am a bit […]
Uploading my photographs from visiting the art museum in Gothenburg produced some images that I find fascinating and intriguing. My recently updated i-photo programme now automatically applies its ‘face recognition’ feature to all my pictures. Having taken photographs in the […]
a-n The Artists Information Company has appointed Jeanie Scott to be its new Executive Director.
The annual Cheltenham-based Open West competition and exhibition has announced four award winners across three prizes.
