Artist Ania Bas and Exhibitions Officer Helen Jones reflect on an innovative approach to being an artist-in-residence at The New Art Gallery Walsall.
I started this blog only a few weeks ago. Seems like another life. Sitting behind a gallery desk, getting my bike stolen, and watching people fall ill. Struggling, hoping and living in a bedsit. Today’s NFASP conference, at the Toynbee […]
Full of a cold and bundled up on the couch looking at application TO DO TODAY! Just noticed that the debate on the artists talking front page points to my blog at the moment – on the subject of professional […]
Project coordinator Ed Adam and consultant Sovay Berriman tell Jane Watt how Alias (Artists-led Initiative Advisory service) has developed over the last ten years. They discuss the dilemmas that artist-led organisations face and offer their survival tips.
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall” Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938
Good news refreshes a thirsty man! Heard the happy tidings that I’ve been accepted on to this years AA2A residency scheme. I’ll be busying like a busy thing in the workshops down there, in the very near (and very busy) […]
Overview of recent residency related awards.
A guide to career development and training opportunities as well as related services and resources that are designed to help artists take their practice to the next level.
Featuring a selection of UK’s most interesting rurally-based organisations and artists’ projects.
Tuesday – My last day in Finland We turned a different way out of the road this time, and Edwina took me to the side of Riihimaki that i had not been to yet; i am amazed how far this […]
I took the train to Turenki as after Friday’s seminar, Riitta had invited me over to her gallery with the possibility of making some Textile pieces for her to show. It was a really enjoyable afternoon, and one that i […]
Ah, show is up, I have a title.. it’s not the most amazing thing I have ever done, but that disappointment is partly due to the fact that I can’t show the animation alongside the sculpture.. otherwise it will do. […]
The birthday trip home to Liverpool begins in about two hours, so I shall see you in September… Hoping this break will give everything a bit of clarity when I get back and see my work again. The next exhibiton […]
St. John’s Centre, Preston
30 July – 26 August 2009
Linzblog: On Friday we were very lucky indeed, and managed to get the keys to go into the tunnels under Linz. As the book I am making is about the surface and what lies underneath, I have been desperate to […]
Getting paid blog: This is in reply to Christina and Andrew in the previous post.. firstly thanks very much for the rant encouragment! There shall be more to come. However, recent frustrations I mentioned here are more to do with […]
Linzblog: I have been reading through a few blogs this morning and specifically those by other people currently on residencies.. It made me laugh how much I recognise my own experiences mirrored in these: struggling with time both going slowly […]
I didn’t mean to post anything else again today, but I was just checking the deadline for something and came across a residency at the Bridge School; a special needs school in Islington. This is a residency with studio, materials […]
Today I was thinking about artists who write. There’s quite a lot of them (us?). Picasso has at least one thick volume of collected writings and stories published… Louise Bourgeois’s creative writing has just started appealing to me. With quite […]
Dorm, ten minutes before breakfast. We went into Uzipis last night, en famille. Uzipis was declared a seperate republic but artists who lived there, in 1997 or so. Here’s their constitution. Needless to say, there are now developers signs around. […]
Our project ‘Red’ is a series of 3, one month residencies in 2 market towns and one city. We have been commissioned by ‘In Certain Places’ to work in the St John’s Centre, Preston, for the first month. This blog […]
Project Space Leeds, Leeds
25 March – 27 June
