I’ve self funded the development and delivery of my Notts School Puppetry Workshops over the past 3 years. ACE rejected all x11 of my Arts Project Applications that included them. But I can’t afford to any more so we’re in hiatus. Shame.
BBC Reports on the Committee’s findings and recommendations but not on any reaction from the Grass Roots Live Music Venue Community. Suggesting also that a similar Govt enquiry into support for Independent Visual Artists might come up with solutions to their plight.
Arts Council England’s new Strategy 2020-2030 makes lots of claims about inclusion and diversity and has shaken up it’s National Portfolio Holders in support of levelling up. The fact though remains that most of their funding will still be delivered by graduates, to graduates.
Some posts reflecting on the ACE funded BeLonging project for and about women over 50 in Corby by The Eloquent Fold – artists Carole Miles and Phiona Richards
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.
This is probably my final post for this project – it seems a bit weird amidst all that is going on. However, my plan was to share some final images and thoughts on my installation in ‘Fool’s Gold’, my two […]
There is under one week until Pamela Schilderman and I install our new work for ‘Fool’s Gold’, a two person exhibition at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum with associated events in Rugby and London. I am thinking about how my […]
Originally my plan for my piece ‘Winter Blues’ was to use branches from ‘real’ Christmas pine or needle trees that are discarded along pavements in January – an act I find disturbing. This year I have been working with discarded […]
Video still of a performance with Arts Council England funding forms 2017-2018. Autistic author and poet, Joanne Limberg, has described this blog post, first published on WordPress, as essential reading. So I’m sharing it here too. In many ways it […]
‘Quadrats’ will be one of the three new bodies of works I am making for ‘Fool’s Gold’. The square structures will be formed from discarded ‘sticks’. From the the streets I have collected abandoned mop poles, rusty poles, brass poles, […]
Pamela Schilderman and I have been awarded Arts Council England funding for our exhibition ‘Fool’s Gold’, opening in January 2020 (January 25th – 14th March) at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. The project, which takes place in Rugby, London, and online, will […]
A space for my ideas towards ‘Fool’s Gold,’ an Art’s Council Funded two-person show at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum – if all that was left of humanity was the things we made, what would be our legacy?
In the guise of fairy tales, reality comes into focus, we are forced to acknowledge we are the authors of our happy ever after.
An upcoming solo show exploring humanity’s ongoing fascination with myths – from ancient Greek legends to modern superheroes and ‘fake news’. Opening July 6 at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
We are amidst a global mental health crisis. To bring about policy and culture change, we must think outside the pillbox. Through an ACE-funded Unlimited commission #MagicCarpet, we argue for ‘lofty arts’ in effecting cultural change in mental health.
ACE Club launches it debut show at Union Club, Soho, London June 4th and 5th,
A blog post in which I finally understand the importance of relationship managers in professional development and funding bid success as an autistic artist. I’m back at the coalface of the Grantium portal, but this time I’m making a higher […]
Where did January and half of February go? The last six weeks have passed in a blur of activity. We got the fantastic news at the beginning of January that our grants for the arts funding bid to Arts Council […]
Yesterday I learned a great deal about being invisible as a socially engaged artist – in the context of intersecting minorities. I am an autistic white Anglo-Spanish woman of middle age. My current project in collaboration with Elena Thomas; The […]
Do you think art galleries who receive funding form ACE should support everyone? When galleries talk about DIVERSITY and ticking that box when supporting artists what do they actually mean? Do they really support British Indian Artists, living and working in the UK ? […]
I have some fantastic news! I have been awarded an ACE small grant for Revolution and Resonance 2017. After a self initiated research residency at Ashburnham Place in Battle. I formed the project using the space around me, the materials around […]
For some months I have been working on a project idea called Revolution and Resonance, which is the result of my seed research at Ashburnham Place, I am glad I was slow at getting this off the ground because this […]
Thank you a-n for focusing on my work over on the your Instagram account this week . Its really given me a high :-) I feel like I should be writing a really interesting post just now as I’m getting so much […]
