In the run up to Edinburgh Art Festival, Gordon Dalton speaks to some of the artists participating in this year’s tenth-anniversary edition, as well as Director Sorcha Carey about the impact of the publicly-sited commissions.
So, spoke with Mike Stubbs on Skype. Mike is the Director and C.E.O. of FACT in Liverpool, and is a really knowledgable curator dealing with digital media. It was a very involved discussion. One aspect that came up was that […]
After last post decided to take a break from blogging; aim to be back in September. Until then I’ll be pondering the links between snippets of texts, ideas and images mixing it up in my tired head: Iphigenie, Grimm’s The […]
Two recent events in Manchester square up to a debate that’s not going away – the relationship between artists and money. Bob Dickinson reports.
Week 39: 10th – 16th JuneI’m in another exhibition and this time it’s at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, which feels like something of a coup in artistic terms. The exhibition is a continuation of the 16 […]
Changing your mind I changed my mind about my cast figures, I thought I would make an edition, all exactly the same, I had the figures cast in aluminium intending to attach them to a series of press-moulded ceramic bases […]
During the last two weeks I lost (truly) three whole consecutive days as a crushing wave of ever worsening M.E.-symptoms washed over me and hardly let me come up for air. When it finally deposited me it wasn’t on a […]
Preparing for my second Re;view meeting with Caroline Hick tomorrow. Going to use the session to concentrate on talking about the family photography project and it’s potential for a collaborative research project, combining and sharing ordinary and expert forms of […]
55th Venice Biennale, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
What is your proposed artistic activity, and what do you want to achieve by doing it? (500 words) This morning, trying to start filling in an R and D application for Grants for The Arts, and feeling confused and overwhelmed […]
Programmed in relation to the current Ellen Gallagher exhibition at Tate Modern, the Afrofuturism’s Others seminar provided an enticing introduction to this cultural aesthetic. Artist and curator Sonya Dyer reports.
After a really nice weekend off, it’s time to get the Monday morning “doing stuff” head on. I really need to focus on specific things, as lately my attention has been so refracted and I’ve not been feeling like I’ve […]
a-n is teaming up with Castlefield Gallery in Manchester for an event that will launch a new guide to sharing content online and explore strategies for hosting artists’ video.
I’m trying to expand my art-practice, and have been experimenting with different media. First I wanted to paint and draw, but it’s not something that’s easily done lying down, and when I sit up (which usually means propped up against […]
10th June 2013. Weather; Sunny. A break in the cloud of being busy. Time to put thought into words. I am at one of those crossroads in life. My daughters have left home, my 91 year old mother has finally […]
APT Gallery, Deptford
14 – 31 March 2013
Out walking the dog first thing this morning, it hit me that sometimes it takes a while to know what a conversation means. In my last blog post I wrote that I had realised that my decision to apply for […]
(Continued from last post) “…Isn’t it more about how we can apply our skills or how we use the tools we have, how we can exchange or share these in different ways and settings, guided by our own personal commitments […]
Bad news for art and culture in Bradford over the past few days. Last week it was announced that Bradford One gallery is moving from its central location in Centenary Square to Cartwright Hall to make way for the new […]
Bosch in Bath. Last month was spent organising, arranging and curating ‘Old Victoria Buildings Revival’ for Fringe Arts Bath 2013, a show that in the end featured work from: Sam Aldridge, Jan Bennett, Phil Babot, Andrew Cooper, Geraint Evans, Kim […]
Week Three News Extracts from Buddy Leader, Anne Barrell’s weekly mail-out to the group. It’s been great hearing what the buddies have been up to and some lovely ideas are coming forward. Sarah Mulholland and Catherine Walsh have been sketching […]
BLUE MONKEY LOVES DAVID KEFFORD! Blue Monkey artist Anne Barrell writes, “I very much enjoyed the David Kefford talk at Towner on Wednesday. Part of what he talked about was the importance of artists support networks and about how through […]
With my exhibition, workshop and lecture complete, I’m just back from a much needed few days break lazing by the beach in Hainan off the south coast of China. I fly out of Chongqing tomorrow evening arriving in Gatwick at […]
I have also looked at Ryan Gander this piece he did really inspired me to think of my own practice and maybe push my own boundaries more. http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/ryan-gander been thinking about new work as well spring boarding of this degree […]
I can’t believe its been almost 2 months since my last post. The last 7 weeks have been an intense whirl of events, meetings and new opportunities. There has only been time for doing, action. The dust however has now […]
