So now I find myself within a new collaboration with Jenny, now called 'Hunt & Darton', with a performance that’s been through the mill, and is know finally finished. I'm still very much attached to Ben and reminisce our work […]
Feedback was good. I apparently have a gift for editing (not sure how get in and out as quick as you can without doing anything complicated counts). Still, the main issue with my work is raising the roduction standards, and […]
I have just had a read through the comments on this blog and it has given me a lot to think about. I also feel very glad not to be alone! One comment reminded me of something that used to […]
Selected reports on both current and upcoming residency programmes in the UK and beyond.
In a response to a request to consider issues around ‘rural arts practice’, Veronica Vickery writes in the light of the events, performances, installations and seminar that made up BOS-08 and a BOSarts research trip, funded by ALIAS to Grizedale and Allenheads Arts in August 2008.
London-based Artquest has launched a new free international networking and studio exchange site for visual artists. By joining Artelier, users anywhere can create and update a free profile, providing details about your studios across the Artelier network. The aim is […]
Darlington Arts Association A proposal to re-establish the Darlington Arts Association The shock decision by Darlington Council to knock down a third of the Arts Centre to make way for a huge expansion of the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College […]
Working today on finalising the arrangements for my forthcoming trip to America for the opening of the show in Redhouse Arts Centre. It will be held in the Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery and is titled Inishlacken; the last parish. 23 […]
Group Process is the latest season of work to be staged by Radar, Loughborough University’s contemporary arts programme. Running into February; it involves new and adapted commissions produced by artists Lisa Cheung, Yvonne Droge Wendel, public works / myvillages.org, Parfyme and Yara El-Sherbini.
Felix Thorn: Felix’s Machines
Gasworks, London
15 November – 18 January
I created a performance video which at the moment have the working title of MOLTERN STATES. It is inspired by the the meeting seas and the fustration I have felt when the people you were relying on lets you down, […]
Space.Media.Arts, London
1 October 2008 – 31 December 2009
I have finally finished my entry for Coldplay's Lost video competition. It is here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGbbBp68rg Even though I didn't have enough time to hand sketch each frame, it still took ages to rotoscope some additional video footage. I do not […]
TAKING STOCK At Crate I used over a kilo of sugar, more than 700 artichoke seeds and 40 cardboard boxes. I started a series of drawings of 392 dandelion seeds from a single dandelion clock. There have been 5 residencies, […]
The British Ceramics Biennial (BCB), launched on 1 December 2008 and directed by A FINE LINE partners Barney Hare Duke and Jeremy Theophilus, is a major initiative to create a programme of events and activities and a showcase Biennial event in Stoke-on-Trent to take place in October/November of 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Tomorrow I am finally to meet some of the interested parties in the Caterham project as I go to the Arc for a meeting of the Caterham Arts Festival committee together with Becci Kenning and Katy Potter from the Arts […]
Artist Neil Armstrong and pharmaceuticals company Specials Clinical Manufacturing talk about working towards a special commission in the latest of our collaborative relationships series.
Ally Wallace on his residency at Victoria Baths, Manchester.
White knuckle taxi rides, wallet massaging, leathery kings vitrined for an infinity, not the eternal life they imagined. Dismembered cars used as rubbish bins, shit I'm in cairo, well couldnt expect anything different! A contemporary gallery tucked away inside the […]
Sarah Thelwall reveals that there is not one art market but several different ones. These markets are very different in terms of the artists, gallerists and collectors who participate and develop them. This Art market tour articulates the main markets and looks at what drives them.
Report on visit to Dublin 6/7th September 2008Le Chéile Cystyllt Exchange Project The purpose of the visit was for Veronica Calarco and Andrew Smith to meet with Monica de Bath, Pamela De Bri, Eileen Keane in Ireland. Summary of visit […]
With half the UK’s population residing outwith urban conurbations, and regional and arts and cultural policies prioritising local engagement, locations often regarded as countrified are strategically raising their art world profile through imaginative programmes and project.
In a world increasingly skewed by notions of commodity and markets, artists and creative practitioners must be proactive in seeking out opportunities that enable them to experiment and take the risks that will drive up the quality of their work.
