“Hi Rosie, forgive me if I state something you have covered earlier, I have not yet had time to review all your posts. I have skimmed this most recent page and it strikes me that your plan drawings make for […]
The flyer/poster for the fundraiser we are having 25th March. The day happened to be on the same day the clocks change (British Summer Time) hence the name… The art fair is going to be a good chance for us […]
Well, I intended to blog about the peer-mentoring performance programme meet-ups down at the Construction Gallery a couple of weeks ago, but got sidetracked by the duties of motherhood and preparations for a soon to be 8 year old’s birthday […]
In the local paper they had an advert about a new art space in the town. It had secured Arts Council funding too. So I set about creating a proposal, using all the knowledge I’d gained at unversity to enable […]
We catch up with Beth Webster, in her final year of her Fine Art degree at Lincoln University, and talk about the concept of beauty, histories of found-objects in art and the ‘spin’ of self in one’s practice.
Last Thursday evening the launch for ZeitgeistAP (ZAP) took place. ZAP is a new venture created by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley with the education of artists by artists at its core. It was a great night and it felt […]
I did an artists talk thingy this morning. I’ve only ever done that sort of thing to my fellow students before, so it was a bit daunting. I wasn’t the only speaker, there were 4 of us, from 3 different […]
So many questions this week. How do I get these budgies back into the cage? Why do some people still think a mullet (the haircut, not the fish) is a good idea, and why do so many of them live […]
I have been busy preparing 3 of my drawing screens this week; projecting the drawing up onto the wall to draw up the transparent positive for exposing, retouching the lines on the lightbox and finally getting them onto the screens […]
Access to professional development is vital to artists’ careers, so here’s something we think will help.
Townley and Bradby have an ongoing collaborative practice. They also have two children. Here they discuss how they used an investigative project to allow their art practice and their parental commitments to inform one another, rather than remaining distinct entities. However, this feature does not look at the existing collaboration between the duo, it looks at the working relationship they initiated with a psychologist who specialises in families.
Today I am exhausted. My son finally recovered from chickenpox, only to develop conjunctivitis and to top it off last week was half term. I had to go to work through all this as well, and with a horrible nasty […]
I have a tutorial tomorrow and for the first time in a long time I feel as though I know what I’m doing. I don’t feel burdened by grades, criteria, modules, marks, assessments or evaluations. Today yielded some good things, […]
Rollo Contemporary Art, London
20 January – 2 March 2012
A crucial radiator has broken. It’s cold. Today I did not work on Sunday’s talk. I interviewed florists. Florists shouldn’t officially appear on this blog, they’re part of a separate project. But I can’t help it. I’m making no attempt […]
I am now getting into the life here and as the dust settles I begin to address bigger questions than ‘Where is the supermarket?’ and ‘How many espresso’s can I drink before my heart starts racing (Answer: 3)?’. So now […]
I have introduced hula hooping into my standup act that I have been working on for 6 weeks. This was quite hard as I have just used comedy material alone so far, and not even mentioned the hula hooping. It […]
Recently I’ve been thinking about how I can expand my drawings outwards- either out onto the walls or out into the viewer’s space. This week I’ve been experimenting with the idea of relief drawings/collages made with layers of tracing paper […]
So, this is it. I’m rested and ready for the big move on Monday. This will be my fourth studio move in five years, quite a lot considering the amount of stuff I have to move each time. The second […]
Things that are not really there. I have been focusing on writing my dissertation for uni recently where I have been focusing on the Sublime in contemporary art. Little did I know before I started just how big this subject […]
ICA: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
25 January 2012 to 25 March 2012
Today has gone by in a flash. Only two cups of tea for example. I’ve been synchronizing the videos: an alarmingly slow process of overlaying them semiopaque in Final Cut then editing them piece by piece while I wait for […]
Sometimes you just need to go home. And I have. Today I read Jane Boyer’s a-n blog a second time. Reversed the order and read from post #1. I feel better now. You can read about Jane’s current practice and […]
So, lately I have been thinking a lot about process in regards to my practice. In August of last year, artists Christine Sullivan and Rob Flint did a residency at Motorcade/Flashparade and gave an artist’s talk for the Spike Associates. […]
Last week I was starting to worry. After losing a day in the studio to the drive back down from Derbyshire, by this point I should be pulling hair out. However… I’m not. I’m behind, but I’m not worrying. I’m […]
