The static presumed ‘nobility’ of an image has never bothered me so much as it does now. I think it’s because we are in forced states of being ‘stationary’, it’s got me thinking about the still and moving image and the slippage that occurs between them.
Read MoreNolan Country' series.
56 photographs taken on a visit to Wales including a visit to The Rodd - Sidney Nolan Trust in October 2019.
58 ink on postcard drawings made between 07:11:19 and 02:01:20.
A hopeful attitude is applied to this research and with positivity I am finding out exactly what ‘family’ consists of in our new-found global togetherness.
Read More‘Sculpture from the Sofa’ is a series of short videos that aim to share knowledge and enthusiasm for sculpture, based on domestic objects collected over the last decade or so. This episode features a plaster cast of ‘L’Inconnue de la Seine’ (‘The Unknown Woman of the Seine’), its apocryphal origin story and the ways in which it has entered popular culture.
Read MoreDay 2 – Status Quo – Rocking all over the world – dog – Lulu – all over – the world – dirty water – 1977 – punk – virus – LCD font – ape – planet – a lover
Read MoreSince the outbreak of Covid 19 The Art House where I have a studio has been forced to close, and because of this they are offering two months where you do not need to pay the rent.
Read MoreObie Butcher takes his inspiration from the natural world and has created a range of sculptures using many materials. He began sculpture by learning to wood carve before moving on to marble carving whilst living in Spain.
Read MoreClare Charnley is a UK Visual artist who work is made in collaboration with the public and foreigners. Her recent work has included Brazilian artist Patricia Azevedo.
Read More‘I Clap For An Art’ by Phill Hopkins is Hopkins riffing on a recent work entitled ‘I Pray For An Art’.
Read More2020, live updates from The sounds of ideas forming, Volume 2 (Instagram - @alandunn67), exploring the fragility and tangibility of vinyl sleeves in domestic settings. Recent instalments:
Read MoreAs we all move indoors for a few weeks of enforced isolation it is important to make sure we do not lose our connection with those things that make us happy, give us hope and allow us to share something of what it is that makes us human; our enduring spirit of creativity.
Read MoreI still love Leeds, I guess you always do when it’s your hometown. I studied my foundation at Jacob Kramer 1990-91 after doing Photography O & A levels at my school. I failed my art O level and am really glad I did!
Read MoreI remember vividly my very patient dad telling me how the gas-o-meter worked as we passed it regularly on Armley gyratory; it fascinated me as a child and still does now.
Read MoreSometimes, without the need of confection for a plot, themes can emerge through the process of discussion and planning. I like to think that this is arts natural state, the continual process of discovery, research, reaction, change and consolidation, an alternative to the staid and retrogressive times in which we are currently living.
Read More‘On The Corner’ is a project that is truly intergenerational and is aimed at promoting ideas of art as an important and integral part of the fabric of our society. We ignore art at our peril.
Read MoreThroughout my second year, I’d been undertaking a series of works that related to home and my family, and for part of the module I was required to research an art space that related to my work, and visualise my pieces within in it.
Read MoreSince we began this venture nearly a decade ago, we have been diligently chipping away underground, creating a place that serves both artists and community alike. Over time the project has become the foundation for a broad set of ideas that address many issues in art whilst speaking directly to the concerns of the local community.
Read MoreI discovered the remnants of a woman’s life in amongst a bonfire ashes and brought them home to assemble two sculptures. They became the starting point of a larger body of work that has evolved to scrutinise wider aspects of the UK sex industry.
Read MoreOne day I touched a piece of sculpture, I felt its form, I ran my hands around it and it had presence, in that moment I understood why I wanted to create. That was 10 years ago, the moment I finally made the commitment to exploring creative expression. The next morning I borrowed the kids colour pencils and drew an apple, it was the best apple I have ever drawn. I have been doing it everyday since.
Read MoreMy memories of being five and sat in a room full of furniture ten times bigger than they actually should be are vivid, and further embedded when I recall the sound of the Polyphon. A coin, 2p, is put in the slot, it wends its way down through the mechanism clinking and clanking as it goes. Eventually it rattles as it drops into a pit of other two pence pieces. The machine grinds into life and music drifts out into the quiet, rarefied atmosphere of the galleries.
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