…Continued from last post Caroline suggested that it might be good to take the brakes off in terms of the ACE application, and give myself to have further exploratory conversations with other collaborators, allowing myself to develop a firm sense […]
Yesterday I endured the acquaintance of an extremely heavy, cumbersome and joyless piece of apparatus commonly known as a ‘camera.’ As some of you know, I have been asked to produce over twenty images of jars of home-made paint for […]
Progress on the ACE application is inching forward slowly, amidst leaky pipes, boiler problems and visits from friends and family. I met up with Gideon at Fabric (http://www.fabricculture.co.uk/) last week to go through what I have already and got some […]
The 44th edition of the pioneering photography festival – Les Rencontres d’Arles – held annually in the south of France is now underway, and despite its strange curatorial proposition still continues to enthral audiences. Tim Clark reports back from the opening week.
Hello everyone… its nice to be back to blogging with you all. I haven’t been blogging for over a year now. I had blogged about Being Part of Something, which started out as a journey from joining an artist studio, […]
Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.
A residency in a disused chocolate factory in Derby by artists Ivan Smith and Nick Hersey is addressing the need for ‘dirty studio spaces’ in the city. S Mark Gubb reports.
Thinking very much this morning as I walked with Betty about power, access, hierarchies and ethics. I used my second and final Re:view meeting with artist and curator Caroline Hick last week, to talk through the family photography project in […]
Five talented emerging makers unveil the results of their £7,500 Jerwood Makers Open commissions this week in London. We talk to the Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and two of this year’s selected makers about the project.
Our new weekly series casts an eye across the UK’s galleries to offer a selection of must-see shows.
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 […]
