Preparing for my second Re;view meeting with Caroline Hick tomorrow. Going to use the session to concentrate on talking about the family photography project and it’s potential for a collaborative research project, combining and sharing ordinary and expert forms of […]
The Venice Biennale, Venice
1 June – 24 November 2013
‘I’m interested in the relationship between the I and the we’ I knew, before we met, from our exchanges on Twitter and also from the fact that Caroline Hick (one of my Re:view artists) recommended that we talk, that Lisa […]
What is your proposed artistic activity, and what do you want to achieve by doing it? (500 words) This morning, trying to start filling in an R and D application for Grants for The Arts, and feeling confused and overwhelmed […]
The Practicalities of Work Art making away in residency, or on the fly as the case may be, feels like a different beast to the controlled environment of the studio. Much more is up for chance, and necessity dictates lateral […]
Hurrah, a studio day. Digging out my work from drawers, wardrobes and boxes, after some recent visits from family friends had temporarily turned my studio back to a spare bedroom. Laying out archive family photographs and putting them next to […]
Some new research on memory work has opened up, from reading Annette Kuhn’s ‘Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination’ (Verso, 1995) which I’m finding really exciting. ‘Memory work is a method and a practice of unearthing and making public […]
Continued from yesterday “What is the most meaningful project you’ve done?” – Caroline Hick asked me at our first Re:view meeting. I knew the answer. A collaboration I did with my mother, called ‘Us’ – for an exhibition for Malaga […]
Today’s catch-up post is on a collaboration with family members in response to my late Nana’s photographic archive. This was one of the areas of work I wanted to address with Sarah, Caroline and Andy in the Re:view discussion sessions. […]
A new membership scheme from The Photographers’ Gallery aiming to nurture the next generation of art collectors and philanthropists, launches tonight. We talk to Director Brett Rogers about the project, and about future prospects and challenges as the organisation celebrates the first anniversary of its reopening.
The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London
14 – 23 June 2013
barren day 16 White plastic eraser Rauschenberg acquired a Willem de Kooning drawing and erased it see whether a drawing could be produced from entirely erasing and removing marks rather than adding them. The act of labour and production was […]
A day in Bradford: Got some family photographs photocopied (for collage purposes) at Daleys Art Supplies. Site visit to see new proposed darkroom space (next to the one we were originally going to take on Rawson Place ). This new […]
In the first of a new series focusing on visually-rich art books and publications, Tim Clark looks at the disturbingly sublime images of the photographer Richard Mosse, whose images from wartorn Congo are currently showing in Venice and are to be featured in a 240-page book from Aperture.
Channelling Henry Darger, using everything to hand – photocopies, tracings, found pages – to make evolving collages Images from the family archive become characters, actors, in new stories, fusing with the found and the fictional Birds, trees, hands, repeating Moving […]
Abbey Farm Barn nr. Snape Malting, Aldeburgh
8 – 23 June 2013
barren day 10 Indifference to forgery To bring together components is described as assembly; rigid elements that lead to some articulation. (Ingold.T; 2012) They can be criticised for being negative, the enemy of conjuring a ‘sense of’ and arresting feeling. […]
Under threat of closure due to likely further cuts in the comprehensive spending review on 26 June, a campaign to save the National Media Museum in Bradford is attracting growing support.
Sarah Ball’s painting of a 1920s New York girl gang member wins her the title of Welsh Artist of the Year 2013.
During my bursary period I am meeting several times with Gill Park, director of Pavilion, a Leeds based commissioning organisation. I have known Pavilion for a while; first as a visitor to their exhibitions, then in 2008 I worked with […]
barren day 8 Space frame Walking into the studio this morning the transition from work placed within the space to the space becoming the work is clear. A threshold has appeared and it is like stepping into a stage. The […]
Veil works 2013 These works started with my fascination with Gaitan De Clerambaults obsessive and somewhat fetishistic photographs of veiled Moroccan women – where simple rough fabric takes precedence over a usual kind of photographic Orientalism, where Eastern women are […]
What can you do with a space 168 cubic feet … the size of a large broom cupboard … turn it into the smallest gallery in London … what else … some may have opened the door only to see […]
As the first results from AIR’s Paying Artists Survey make clear, artists are finding themselves at the end of the arts food chain as funding cuts bite. Here, a-n’s Director looks at how things stand and suggests a future where practitioners determine the status of their art and of artists.
