The motif of ‘barrow as fairy dwelling’, is common in recent folklore. Unfortunately the prevalence of sites which are not gravemounds tends to diminish the significance of those which are, and this eclecticism becomes even more apparent when we include […]
Gerry Atkinson, 'Shades of other Lives', Photography.
URIEL ORLOW is interested in what happens in the shadow of great narratives of history. Some ideas he presented that interest me are: Heterotopia – spaces in our society that are outside of society such as hospitals, prisons etc. Uriel […]
Back to college now and the week started of at a flying speed. The presentation on a contemporary artist was postponed due to lack of completion by some students. My artist of focus is Jemima Stehli. An interesting artist who […]
Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool
18 September – 28 November 2010
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
14 – 24 October 2010
Last night was the launch of HMS Open Studios 2010 and proved to be the best ever. There were lots of interesting high profile Sideshow events in Nottingham so the competition was really hot. However, people from 8wks to 80yrs […]
Josephine Coy, 'Be Careful He Went That Way', Digital Photography, October 2010. Photo: Josephine Coy. The central figure here of a young boy is taken from ?Sunshine and Showers?(a sequence from Kurosawa?s Dreams). The title is from the dialogue of another film in the Dreams series. The boy and the title are placed out of context creating a threshold of meaning, an open narrative.
These film-like strips of conjoined frames, with their spatial and temporal ambiguities, place the boy as if in a tunnel between levels of consciousness. He peers out from his aloneness in one dimension into that of another alien world.
The Photographers’ Gallery officially closed its doors to the public for one year on 19 September 2010 to “embark on our ambitious development of the building, creating a new, international home for photography in the UK”.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
Profiling studio and workshop facilities around the country, plus ambitious exhibition projects that are engaging with local communities.
Capabilities Although my residency is officially over I went back last week to test out the capabilities and capacities of the Stratasys Fortus machine. The idea came from a proposal I have written for a conference next year. The question […]
tell me I’m not going crazy Like the internet can do so well, I’ve been journeying tonight. Generally I avoid TV but tonight among The Antique’s Roadshow and Mastermind I watched ‘Unreported World’ on C4. Here goes the route that […]
I have just been catching up with Susan Francis’s blog, ‘Flesh on the Bones of the Belfast Child’ and I came across an entry where she had quoted myself: ‘…Now if I was to create a representational image I use […]
Following Christian Union meeting we know that we need to reach out to more students and maybe me and Steven work together – he is a Photography student level 5 / 2nd year. In the talk on wednesday it was […]