Welcome to the Fairways. The Kentish Riviera.. How much can architects do to create sustainable and friendly communities? Do they have to portray an advert style world where the sun always shines? Is it about showing financial success with high […]
Engaging in a detailed way with industrial manufacturing means immersing oneself in a world of language, techniques and processes that are at times utterly surprising. The products produced in the factory today have ranged from a very high end car […]
I’m 48 hours into a residency that’s as focused upon manufacturing timelines and heritage-based narratives as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and competitive strategies. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and supported by arts commissioners Super Slow Way, the Art in […]
Throughout 2017 I will be making new artworks and creating engagement opportunities responding to this unique architectural relic. This blog reflects on the ideas in my application and my initial responses to this unique residency opportunity within this iconic London landmark.
since the weekend i’ve been reflecting about the film. it’s reached the stage of being online and viewed by invitation. this is part of the research into reactions to a non linear film. for this project i drew upon my experience […]
i am very happy to write this update about the film project. for those of you new to the blog, let me give you some background. i have a commission from derby silk mill museum to make a non […]
what will the world make of it ? i posed this question at the end of my last post. in working towards completing the k film based on the silk mill museum, i’ve found myself asking of myself … what […]
later today i’ll take myself and my equipment into the derby silk mill museum of making and begin the filming for the film commission i’m currently calling four six one. it’s being produced by sue ball, one of the two […]
blog of the non linear artwork installed in the second floor of the museum of making at derby silk mill. it’s part of the arts and heritage pilot programme of the museum. this programme also features work by toni buckby and red saunders.
A one-day event led by artists group Anchor & Magnet using creative workshops to discuss and debate heritage, regeneration and loss in the city, that took place on 23rd April 2016. Review written by Oliver Carter. Photographs by Katarzyna Perlak.
I am organising a Museum’s Learning Day in Sittingbourne at the Ideas Test head office, Jan 29th 2016. I am looking for interesting and provocative speakers who can bring new ideas about how Museums work with artists. Suggestion are welcome! […]
Review of new work by Simon Lee Dicker in response to a residency at the Twineworks in West Coker
As part of this year’s Heritage Open Days across England, six artists have been commissioned to produce site-specific work at the English Heritage site Fort Brockhurst in Gosport. Pippa Koszerek speaks to the artist and curator behind the Space Interrupted project.
18 July – 29 August 2015 Pyramid & Parr Hall, Palmyra Square South, Cultural Quarter, Warrington WA1 1BL This weekend my first solo show (eek!) opens in Warrington at Pyramid & Parr Hall (in the gallery at Pyramid). This […]
Flow Contemporary Arts to deliver training on behalf of lightsgoingon