Triangles After looking at various monochromatic imagery of paintings and photography, I began gathering my own images for my painting/ series of paintings of monochromatic rendered flesh. I have been considering the triangular composition that runs through a lot of […]
The Cello Factory, London
27 February – 12 March 2014
Casa Maauad, Mexico City
21 March – 5 April 2014
I came across this picture in an old history book of mine, given to me by my mother. Ever since I saw this image of Lewis Powell I have never forgotten it and it has always stuck with me. Lewis […]
I’m delighted to announce my appointment as the Victoria & Albert Museum’s first Community Artist in Residence. Although we haven’t quite confirmed details, I will hopefully be based in an artists studio on the site, directly opposite Latimer Road tube […]
Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen’s solo presentation, commissioned and curated by Arbroath’s Hospitalfield Arts, will represent Scotland at the 56th Venice Biennale.
This week’s must-see shows include Michael Craig-Martin’s ‘line drawings in space’ in Bakewell, New Zealand-born and Berlin-based artist Simon Denny’s first UK solo show in Colchester and research into rural communities and development by Stephanie Misa in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
This week I have really been focusing on my research and what work really influence me and make me produce the work I do. I stared of looking at some artist that has influenced me throughout this process. Firstly I […]
This week’s most significant international art event is the opening of the 19th Biennale of Sydney, now minus its founding sponsor after protests and withdrawals by a number of participating artists. Plus we take a look at Paris, Madrid and the German city of Gelsenkirche.
Back to Reality. Looking back to my previous blog I was about to embark on a realist work in oil on canvas. The image I have used is a still from video footage of a homeless American man during an […]
I am my own experiment! I have been researching into how memory works with regard to shaping our identities. Today I made studies of an object that I have ‘known’ all my life – a ceramic figure of a little […]
A Rant with Perspective Part 2. And now teaching again after a five year break, has been thoroughly enjoyable I have felt relaxed and comfortable. That is until last week when a sense of weakness caused me to go completely […]
Black & White/ Monochrome. Colour is a very communicative devise in painting. Often a mood can be easily established in a painting through association of colour and emotion. Very much the same way that large scale can easily communicate an […]
SPACE AND PLANNING Now it really starts- we’ve just been allocated our exhibition spaces for the show. Everything seems more real now as I begin to measure up my space and start to think about the different possibilities of exhibiting […]
This week’s snapshot of international art action sees us talking about revolution in Finland, exploring the virtual and the real in the Netherlands, contemporary Arab art in the USA, and going deep into the Congo in Australia.
New opportunities — the ones that aren’t part of my usual way of working but I find myself instinctively drawn to — can be a fantastic way to develop ones practice. The collage abuse series came about in this way, […]
Currently reading: Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl, 2012, eflux Journal, Sternberg Press. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle. Part 2/5 In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective (p.12) Steyerl discusses that with the […]
It was back in September when I first started using family photography in my artwork. I had selected one image of myself standing in the back garden of my childhood home. At this point I was thinking about my own […]
Here are some thoughts from one of the artists in the Topography Disarranged exhibition, Erin Solomons: During the making of this work, I became aware of how potent visceral objects of photography can be. The discoloration and watermarks on the […]
The First Person Plural conference at London’s Media Space set out to reflect on the legacy of photographer Tony Ray-Jones and examine issues associated with photography in the digital age, while also speculating on the medium’s future. Tim Clark reports from the one-day event.
SITE VISIT In my search for materials, I have recently been given permission to access a building whose decrepit state attests to its liberation from utility. Awaiting demolition, in the coming months I will be investigating this transitional environment- a […]
As there are lots of exciting things going on at Hereford college of Arts, my aim is to get a lively selection of it into the newsletter and on the Palette magazine online blog. At HCA there are now two […]
This week’s must-see shows include the Silver Lion-winning French artist Camille Henrot at Chisenhale, London, German artist John Ebner at Vane, Newcastle, and science-themed portraiture at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
