Jens Sundheim is a visual artist working principally in photography. Born in Dortmund in 1970, he studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund from 1994 – 2002 with a period of study at the University of Plymouth in 1997. He is currently based in a live/work studio space at Künstlerhaus Dortmund (KHD) and has been resident there since 2007. Sundheim’s work has been exhibited internationally in exhibitions and festivals, most recently in ‘space shuttle 2.0’ at Fotogalerie, Vienna. He has had his work featured in various magazines and publications and has been awarded numerous prizes including a recommendation at the Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Emily Speed looks at the complex nature of making a living as an artist with reference to profiles of four artists, all based in Austria and Germany, whom she worked alongside at the Salzamt, Linz.
Richard Taylor converses with a third year student James Clarkson at Sheffield Hallam University on not always having something to say but having plenty to show instead.
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
9 February – 27 March
8th April 2010 Its not two months since the fire and it seems we may have found a long term replacement building – a mill just outside Kendal. Its been so busy these last couple of weeks – meetings and […]
I regularly engage in dialogue with myself about my work, like most artists I’m sure; dialogue with material, object, concept, place; and dialogue with audiences through showing work in exhibitions. I worked on a collaborative project in 2008 that was […]
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
9 February
Exploring new initiatives within galleries, education and commissioning.
Mentoring with Bob Levene Sheffield 29.01.10 I had posted the DVDs of the ‘Cans’ re-shoot and of ‘One-Minute Birdwatching’ as the focus for this session. I wasn’t convinced with them as objects in themselves, so I was eager to get […]
Being a first time buyer of your magazine I read your letters page with amazement. Is this really the first time that issues about the pretentiousness of the art world have been raised in such depth?
Helen Scalway is an artist who works using drawing to investigate pattern and place. She has just completed a residency project with the V&A and Royal Holloway, London University. In 2007 and 2008 she held residencies at The Drawing Centre, […]
54 days into 2010 already…. That is what I woke up feeling with acute gravity as I tried to emancipate myself from a brain fogged with illness this morning… …..that and suddenly through the fog…. it’s time to regroup (and […]
Contents include: Residencies and communities feature; the future of foundation courses in Debate; Big picture is Conflict by Kerry Jameson; Christine Wilcox-Baker recounts her residency at Tatton park in Collaborative relationships. PDF version [size 5 MB]. Requires PDF reader. a-n […]
It’s been a short while since I last blogged, somehow I seem to have entered some sort of stasis. There have been positives and negatives in the last two months. On the plus side, I am interning with Nottingham Visual […]
New Arrival So many hours later I arrive in Chongqing and am met at the airport by Yan Yan and Chloe. We drove through lots of traffic, as it was the rush hour, the yellow taxis drive like England cab […]
A blog on how we live and then where we take ourselves / or a delivery of online diary covering collaborative ideas / tweaking of texts / duplication of words (the process of making an exhibition that is proposed for […]
This blog documents my work during a three month residency at Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia. The FAC is a state funded, multi-arts organization hosting exhibitions, residencies, concerts and workshops.
Last night my companion and I battled through slush and icy rain to a little gathering at Firstsite in Colchester. There were drinks and and nibbles. What neither of us realised and was that the drinks were a trick to […]
Bath Artist Studios, Bath
3 – 13 October 2009
I started on the Creative Business Development course in September at MMU and it has helped me realise what goals I have for the future. I have been searching for artist residencies over the last few months as I feel […]
The Future Jobs Fund is looking to be possible addition to the Chapel Arts studio programme. I had a good chat with those people today, and they think the ideas are (a) good and (b) stand a high chance of […]
