I’ve been thinking about knowledge. Of course I know about German history, the Third Reich, the Holocaust, have learned much at school, through reading, watching documentaries, listening to interviews, visiting two concentration camps, and was almost muted by terror and […]
Reflecting on the painting ‘Invidia’ Instead of staging particular emotions, I decided to think about how to capture real genuine emotions. With this sketch I took a photograph of the subject to capture the exact emotion that triggered me towards […]
Published on the occasion of his exhibition at the Hungarian House of Photography in Budapest, Arion Gábor Kudász’s new monograph maps the logic of memory through a photographic exploration of his late mother’s personal belongings.
→ continued from above I’m not entirely sure why I’m doing what I’m doing here and what I’m achieving, if anything (I call it artling). There’s some sense to it: Both my brother and I were profoundly influenced by my […]
Franz Ackermann – White Cube I often pay the White Cube a visit whenever I’m in London as there is always a display of exciting contemporary artwork on offer. On browsing the gallery website to see what was on, the […]
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, 14-16 February 2014 Part 3/5 Saturday morning was spent digesting the literature while Toby napped: Supermarket exhibition catalogue and magazine (Issue #4). One side lists the exhibitors as the catalogue part and on the flip side […]
This week’s selection includes a major survey of the work of American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia in Wakefield, Tate’s Richard Hamilton blockbuster in London, and the paintings of a young Welsh artist in Cardiff.
There’s something uncanny about looking at these photos of my dad as a prisoner of war. That they survived, that my father chose to hang on to them, put them in his album, although it’s quite in character too: this […]
this is my draft proposal i had to do for my interview for my masters but i thought it would be usefull to put on here as it really goes into my work and what my work is about… Within […]
Lilac Sediment, is the current name (as it might change as more layers develop) of this painting, about A2 in size. It currently has four layers. I have painted it on the floor and at the sink, using lots of […]
For the latest in our series focusing on art books, Tim Clark sits down with Ping Pong Conversations and is enthralled by the long, friendly discussion between stalwart of American lyrical documentary photography Alec Soth and Italian critic and curator Francesco Zanot.
My main artist inspiration would have to be Sam Taylor-Wood. I started looking at some of her work in my A-level art then moved on from her at the start of my degree however I find myself constantly coming back […]
Clare strand is another artist I am looking at specifically her pieces ‘Girl in two halves’ and ‘Aerial Suspension’. These are again utilizing different Photoshop techniques and other things that I am able to achieve using Photoshop. I like the […]
Another interesting area of photography and Photoshop I stumbled onto was how much it has changed over the years. How people reacted to edited photos in the past and how they react to them now. An interesting example of this […]
Construction Project: Day 1 I have set myself a two/three week project to make a construction of my pre-existing materials in my studio everyday in order to free up some ideas and possibilities for new works. I have set myself […]
This week’s selection of must-see shows includes Matt Stokes’ elegiac films in Blackpool, Pop Art pioneer Patrick Caulfield in Kendal, and Chinese animator Sun Xun in London.
Different points of departure I call this piece ‘The Fighter’. It seems to be literally straining to get itself off the canvas. It’s beginnings came from a photograph of mine of a fairly ordinary object we might have in our […]
This week, we’re in Los Angeles, Geneva, Berlin and Roskilde for our whistlestop tour of what’s happening internationally in the world of art.
For the latest instalment of our regular Pictured series focusing on art books, Tim Clark reflects on Veramente, the career-spanning monograph from pioneer of new Italian landscape photography, Guido Guidi.
Part of this residency, called theCommons, aims to be a collaborative space. This is the current list of collaborators with more to come, an exciting time! Michael Hobson January 13th, 14th, 27th Sound work inspired by the notion of sound […]
Previously, in my last year of college and my first year of Uni, my work involved themes on colour and texture. I experimented with making detailed and intricate shapes and patterns with the medium. This worked particularly well with ink […]
