A belated post from our trip to Birmingham in July. CWC is keeping us busy! CM: Arriving at Birmingham, I changed immediately to a train for Bournville to visit the International Project Space, which was showing Through Symbolic Worlds with […]
CM: On the Saturday eveningof our stay in London we met with Tamarin Norwood, Claire Nichols and Patrick Coyle who form part of Antepress, who describe themselves as an imprint platform and who’s work we had encountered through Art on […]
JL: We met with Lynn Harris, one of the two directors of AND Publishing on the final day of our research trip in the British Library. AND Publishing is a print on demand artists’ book publishers, who also offer a […]
CM:While visiting the Whitechapel Gallery to view Fred Sandback we took some time to browse the bookshop, luckily we were restrained in terms of purchase as we could have spent up. By pure chance we bumped into Leeds artist Andy […]
JL: I’m already feeling the benefit of the trip, sitting on the train reading through notes and website pages I printed off on current projects and activities of those we will meet. I also have my copy of The Perverse […]
JL: Meeting with David Berridge Our paths have crossed with David on different occasions in the past couple of years. He was a fellow writer with me and Charlotte for the publication RITE, I personally took part in his Art […]
CM: Back from a great and really useful weekend in London of planned and chance meetings, as well as having the chance to view and discuss shows and events. Here’s a brief round up of the people we met, things […]
A very productive sunday meeting! We have refined our planned activity for the next 18 months, subject to some tidying up. We have also ideantified some points uregntly in need of research, which will be helped by the a-n bursary. […]
An Introduction… Critical Writing Collective aims to promote critical discussion around regional contemporary art and performance activity, create a platform for experimental art writing and support artists and writers through events, publications, projects, opportunities and an open network of contacts. […]
Part of our activity includes developing COPY, which aims to explore the boundaries of critical and experimental art writing through publishing submissions of writing as or around art practice, and page based works with a critical / textual element. COPY […]