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Fan of Football – Fan of Zines
How football fanzines helped me personally and professionally
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Never Forgotten
Exhibition news and update of work in progress by Gayle Rogers on her commemoration-centred practice. Supported by an Artist Bursary: Artist Information Company 2023
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Group Shows – do they help us all?
Installing the new Ordinary/Extraordinary show at the Workers Gallery, resident artist shares her hopes for the show – for everyone exhibiting
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How football brought me closer to death
Does constructing and retelling the narratives of our dead say more about us than them?
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Kicking Back to the Football Art Prize
After requesting the Football Art Prize make their prize more accessible to artists on a low income – I’ve had a response – but it’s still woefully short of my expectations for a publicly ACE funded exhibition venue.
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Being an artist – the BIG gamble
One glaring great injustice for artists on low income is the ‘Call for Artists’ paid submission ‘scam’, where artists are invited to submit their work for inclusion in an exhibition but by also by offering prize money that exhibition submission becomes a gambling wager.
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I’m a Failing Artist
I’m always going to fail and I’m always going to be an artist and that’s OK
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TABOO: the aftershock
Curator Gayle Rogers reflects on the challenges of selecting work that may shock…
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Over Sensitive?
The public and personal dilemmas of curation; curating a show of potentially upsetting or disturbing content, whilst considering the needs and concerns of the artists
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Can Creating a Gallery be a Political Act?
Reflecting on the experience of opening a gallery in an area simultaneously denigrated, marred and celebrated for its unique political history,
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The Dead Are A Job
Reflecting on the ‘Maggie monument’ debate and commemorative arts as an artist working today
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Hedonism & the Workers
The perfect quote that took 4 years to discover