Spin is a site specific temporary drawing made out of mirror tiles. I wanted to play with the flashing flecks of light reflected from the water nearby and to create something that related to the rotational work I was making in the […]
As part of my research into artist residencies I have been talking to SWAGGERJACK who where Samarbeta artists in resident in the club space at Islington Mill from 11/01/15-18/01/15. SWAGGERJACK are artists John Powell-Jones http://www.johnpowell-jones.co.uk and Callum Stephen Higgins http://sacredtapes.bandcamp.com […]
Alice Cunningham’s solo exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculptors, London, includes new works in marble developed while she was recipient of the 2014 Brian Mercer Stone Carving Residency in Pietrasanta, Italy. She speaks to Pippa Koszerek about how she worked with a specialist stone carving studio to create the four works included in the show.
With the Assemblage exhibition coming to an end at AirSpace Gallery, the studio artists group discussed it, and several of us decided it would be a brilliant opportunity to move the Exhibition to the Original Spode factory site, Stoke-on-Trent, alongside […]
To learn more about artist residencies I went to London for a research trip and visited Gasworks and Shape Arts. I had tried to make an appointment with Gasworks although with the building only just re-opening this month after a […]
Baltic Science is an installation of print orientated works in progress developed from a residency at Nida Art Colony, Lithuania. The works explore natural data systems and are directly informed by data collected from Nida. 1. Medis dalis vienas, 2015, Acrylic […]
Oblique Arts is a small not for profit visual arts organisation working out of Cambridge, UK. We are currently setting up a studio centre in Southern Spain and I need to find out the legal requirements (if any) in doing […]
I have been working at Ashburnham since mid May, at the end of July I took a natural break as it was the summer holidays and both family commitments and Ashburham site use made it impossible to settle down to […]
Straight after the residency had finished with AirSpace, it was time to set up the Narrative exhibition . The exhibition ‘ Consume My Shopping Mall’ was shown in an empty unit. Most of the walls were white washed, we took […]
So it has been Over a month since I first started the residency at AirSpace Gallery, and I’ve really enjoyed the experience so far! This first month has not been as productive in terms of actual art making than I […]
This week I have been firming up dates and plans for my artist parent residency research event at Manchester Art Gallery in November. I wanted to use a space that can accommodate everyone with activities for the children and adults […]
Here are two more drawings of my hybrids from my sketchbook. I am not entirely pleased with these two drawings, mainly because I feel like I was distracted while drawing them; the draughtsmanship feels of a lower quality than what […]
The AirSpace studio artists have been organising an exhibition of their own to run alongside the current AirSpace Gallery exhibition, Icon, with Ian McIntyre. They invited me to join the exhibition, which I thought was a great opportunity to get […]
This past week has been about listening and taking snapshots of residencies popping up on social media. A good listen was Susan Jones lecture about artists pay since the 90s up until today and it seems that back then it […]
There is something quite special about working by the stream. I enjoyed sitting there and picking apart my thoughts about the landscape and it’s boundaries. I had been thinking about boundaries as a notion contracted by man. Questioning whether […]
I struggled to place the items back in the landscape. The process of collecting and painting had become a ‘thing’ in itself, and so when it came to placing such jarring colours into this site which had provided me with […]
My first step was to walk. For some reason the thoughts flow easier when walking. The process of the development of thoughts seems more fluid when the body is in the repetitive action of one foot in front of the […]
I have been in residence since 11th September and have been so busy that I haven’t been able to get this blog up and running until today. As my residency co-incides with h.Art week there is a constant stream of […]
This blog is somewhere for me to share my thoughts, ideas and responses to my week long residency at The Sidney Nolan Trust.
A compulsive hoarder is probably too strong a term to describe myself, but I do like to keep things, and enjoy spending my studio practice time archiving and labelling them in my various folders, files and boxes. To sit […]
