The following link re-directs to my Flickr account, documenting the official photography done for Dance4 as part of the Nottingham Contemporary performance entitled ‘Giving The Eye’: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfickling/5562539… I also created an 8min video as part of the performance, in collaboration […]
Considering the film still. To document my paper eating I will be using a matchbox pinhole with XP2 35mm film. Attached to the winding apparatus will be a knotted string which I will pull on to wind the camera on […]
Generally a positive response to our presentation this morning. Unlike a performance (which it was viewed by some as) it was calm, casual and lighthearted. An approach that was questioned, mainly I think because of the formal way we had […]
Having moved I thought it was time that I tackled the view from my flat. It adds layers to the city. The flat itself is on the top of a hill and the back faces southwest in to the hills. […]
A blog about a collaborative project with my mother Catherine, for an exhibition on illness and photography for the ‘Fotomanias’ photography festival in Malaga, opening next week. The blog will document my/our reflections and experiences of the project so far,the […]
The joys of collaboration The collaboration between me and my mum Catherine originated when Madrid based artist and curator Maria Cobo, invited me to participate in an exhibition about illness and photography for the Fotomanias photography festival in Malaga. I […]
Shot my first roll of black and white today that was fun, I haven’t developed it yet so I’m excited about that. It came about after a conversation with Dave Hazel who is one of the photography lecturers. I have […]
I continue to read the interview with Boltanski and I’ve made a list of artists to research. I’ve also contacted Paul Lipscombe about the photography project. Right now I am trying to write about the live art project and seeing […]
Another day another couple of rejections for menial part-time jobs. Tonight’s the opening of Leeds Artist Book Fair and the Home From Home exhibition. I’m gutted I won’t be there. It’s going to be a great event. Over 80 artists […]
Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham
9 February – 5 March 2011
Specialised, proficient, practiced, able, skilled, knowledgeable expert capable of having an opinion who has advanced, improved, matured, grown and transformed and who can show evidence of this in a collated container or file or as it is known by my […]
Helen Ingram’s work is two dimensional using a variety of mediums ranging from traditional and digitial. These materials are used as they demonstrate the changing hisotry of process that is seen in fashion from drawing to the present day photography. […]
Eat My Hat Presented at the 10 Gales Gallery in London from 8th April to 10th April 2011 Featuring the work of student artists, Eat My Hat sees the second year’s group show which brings together work that aims to […]
I am interested in the relationship between person and place, and philosophical ideas of how the presence of an individual within a place alters that place (or at the very least the conception of that place). I have always been […]
Review of ‘Memory of Light’ There is a quote that has stuck with me from Peter Brook’s seminal book on theatre, The Empty Space. In it he explains his ‘acid test’ for the success or failure of performance: for in […]
As an artist, you need to constantly be wary of the effects that side projects can have to your, shall we say, “main practice”. Over the summer I began to do something i’ve always wanted to do – fashion & […]
Despite setting up a successful jewellery business with her husband, blogger Jane always knew she was an artist and eventually found the time and space to develop her painting. Andrew Bryant talks to Jane about business, the relationship between art and craft, the obsession with interpretation and about feminism and painting.
When we are born ‘each of us is simultaneously the beneficiary of our cultural heritage and the victim of it’[1] from the cities and countries we were brought up in, from our own parents, or guardians. Certain aspects of who […]
I am inside myself. I am inside the world. I am above and around everything my senses allow me to understand. I am waking-walk-waking-walking. Vibration of a conscious mind. Of my own creating. Of my own forming of this physical […]
