a-n blogger Fiona Masterton is this month’s featured member on the a-n Instagram. The London-based artist talks to Richard Taylor about responding to place, and how this stretches her gaze both compositionally and geographically.
Briefing featuring national and international news, including: Artist organising alternative Havana Biennial released on bail; new judges announced for Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize.
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including Gavin Turk at the pop-up Skip Gallery, Post-Soviet Actionism at Saatchi Gallery, London, and John Piper at Tate Liverpool.
A bi-weekly briefing featuring national and international news, including: Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for £341m at auction; Documenta to return to Kassel in 2022 despite budget issues.
“Folklore and hearsay fascinate me, how the myths and legends of the past affect our world today. I love telling stories that hover somewhere in the hinterland between fact and fantasy, whilst scratching at the surface of a truth. My […]
In order to have photographic images in my final book edition ‘Hazel House’ I decided I wanted to print them as photo polymer etchings. The process shares some similarities to screen-printing and etching. The course was at East London […]
While in Oslo, outside of the meetings we are having, I’m spending some time going on guided walks….guided by my 21 month old Son. I have come here with my Partner, Robin, and our Son, Yves. We will be working […]
The project I undertook with help from an A-N travel bursary, allowed me firstly to explore parts of Finland I had not yet been to, this was one of the main reasons for its undertaking. I secondly wanted to put myself […]
Each time I explored an area of train tracks in search of clothing, I took a camera and a light. I had not done this before as I normally collect clothes without recording the environment. The decision to do this […]
With help from the A-N Travel Bursary, I traveled to Monterrey in Northern Mexico, where I co-ran a four day workshop in one of Mexico’s main Museums of Contemporary Art, MARCO, with artist Marysa Dowling http://www.marysadowling.co.uk/ The workshop was titled […]
Book Launch and Print Exhibition
30 October – 2 November 2017
Exploring the very nature of the photographic image, and our obsession with self-portraits ‘mediated by glass’.
The artist Helen Cammock’s exhibition ‘Shouting in Whispers’ at Cubitt Gallery, includes an hour-long film of the same title that features historical footage of protest and explores the idea of multiple histories. Fisun Güner talks to her about photography, the importance of words in her work, and discovering the writing of James Baldwin.
Very excited and somewhat nervous at the prospect of presenting a paper about the project and video at Drawing Conversations 2: Body, Space Object, at Coventry university in December. Having been out of academia for a while, I am getting up […]
Other work forming part of the LAST STATION project LOCATED:Southport. multi media stuff /
A selection of exhibition highlights for the week ahead including artists’ responses to war and conflict at the Imperial War Museum and Cézanne’s portraits at the National Portrait Gallery.
So this will be my penultimate post on this blog. I want the final post to be forward looking in how the bursary activity will continue within my practice. Before that, I want to share an evaluation So September came […]
This week’s selection from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, includes selections from Bristol, Esher, Gosport, London and Manchester.
The site of the not-for-profit arts organisation had been highlighted in the council’s New Southwark Plan as an area to be redeveloped for a new mixed use development.
I have been continuing my work on my Moor series which was instigated by a trip away to Derbyshire. I’ve extended this remit to essentially include the more wildish aspects of the UK countryside as I normally spend most of […]
