Week 63: 25th November – 1st DecemberAlthough the focus of my work is artists’ books, and I have been creating and exhibiting this type of work since 2007, I’ve never really done any formal training in bookbinding. Artists books and […]
I have never felt the need to reference my own life within my artwork. Of course my life experiences inherently play a part in the artwork I have produced over the past 5 years or so, however, the want to […]
Found a stone and told me to smile Part 2 Brooklyn subway 2 days later on a busy New York subway, I saw a woman wearing the same seed on a chain placed on her neck. I was shocked as […]
I was asked to give a talk at the Ipswich Art society about my work. The event came at a good time for me as I was about to start my blog and this would a good opportunity to have […]
Second chapter. Westminster Reference Library. In reverse it started with an opening and performative collective reading. It made me realise how much I have worked on in the first part of my residency (November 2013) including large scale installation photographs, […]
All a-n’s UK Artist + AIR members get free, specially tailored public and products liability insurance with their annual membership. Here, a-n’s Director outlines why making sure you’re properly covered is essential for every practising artist.
For this week’s must-see shows, we’re wrapping up warm in London, getting immersed in a fictional 70s exploitation movie in Manchester, and enjoying a comprehensive survey of British Land Art in Coventry.
For the latest instalment in our series, Tim Clark considers the carefully fabricated world of Robert Zhao Renhui, whose pairings of photographs and text blur fact and fiction to address our lack of regard for the natural environment.
<CP> Eddie surprised me this week, which is nothing new, except that this was quite a nice surprise for once. He’d secretly booked a day in the darkroom on his own to print some of our negatives, after which I […]
For this year’s London Art Fair, Edel Assanti gallery has been invited to guest curate Photo50, focusing on the distinction between the material and the digital. We catch up with co-director Jeremy Epstein to learn more about the aesthetic dialogues they plan to draw out and the huge changes they are witnessing in the medium of photography.
I discovered the work of the photographer Thomas Wrede whilst considering the sublime and the use or not of a horizon – perhaps the omission of a horizon could cause a disorienting effect? I came across a good example of […]
The Connect10 shortlist, matching artists with heritage and arts venues for Museums at Night events in May 2014, has been unveiled, ahead of two weeks of public voting beginning next week.
Ikon Gallery will be looking back at key periods from its 50 year history as it celebrates its half century this year, starting with two exhibitions by Jamal Penjweny and John Salt.
What does 2014 have in store in terms of conferences and events, art fairs and festivals? We take a month-by-month look at what the year has to offer.
So its a new year and i have started up some new ideas. I am experimenting as much as i can with my knitting skills to create different techniques and ways of working with the materials at hand. I have […]
Land Strategies and theCommons January 6th to February 21st. Harrington Mill Studios residency The aim of this residency is to create a discourse between all the elements of the residency/exhibition space exploring the genius loci and the intersections of space, […]
For the first instalment of our Pictured series for 2014, Tim Clark picks up the weighty monograph from legendary Swedish photographer, Anders Petersen, and is blown away by its raw photographs that are brimming with kindness and fury, beauty and abjection.
UH Art & Design Gallery, Hatfield
15 November 2013 – 2 February 2014
Posting this last blog for the year. After the Christmas celebrations and hiatus, I return to my thoughts, and my work. I look forward to the exhibition ‘Trouble & Strife‘ at the Beaney in Canterbury, a companion exhibition to the […]
For this bumper edition of Now Showing, we present 10 must-see exhibitions to see over the Christmas holidays.
The Kickplate Gallery, Abertillery
11 – 31 December 2013
