This month I’ve watched two beautiful documentary films about artists – ‘Tish’, about the late Tish Murtha, documentary photographer, and ‘Amselm’, Wim Wenders film on Anselm Kiefer (who needs no introduction!). Both films were wildly different and about wildly different people, but interestingly one thread wove it’s way through them both: which was the…
For the second time, Art and Ppl (aka art consultant and mentor Claudia Kennaugh) is hosting her ‘Precious Postcards’ exhibition, online and for 1 day only at ‘That Art Gallery’, Maudlin Street, Bristol on Tuesday 5th December (from 10am, drinks between 6 and 9pm). Claudia has assembled postcards from many wonderful artists, all for…
I’m now a member of Jamaica Street Studios, having moved into a small studio there at the beginning of November. The Studios have acquired the ground floor events and exhibition space and will be hosting a Christmas Art Show with work by all the studio holders between Saturday 2nd December and Saturday 16th December…
I’ve always thought of artist’s studios as places of magic- safe and sacred. The way I often think of churches and some kitchens. I always remember going to an exhibition in the Pompidou Centre in Paris in the late ’90s where Brancusi’s studio had been meticulously recreated in the gallery and it thrilled me.…
What is it about the etched line that gets me? I’m still not sure, but I think something to do with the scratched, ragged nature of it. Also, a certain, almost photographic nature to it, the same thing that attracts me to old silver type photos. A certain darkness. Most of my ‘lines’ these…
I know the importance of rest, the trouble is, it’s so hard to enact in this world I live in. Emerging out of the (rather wet) summer holidays, I was starting my run up to leap into all the things I said ‘I’ll do in September’, when, mid-leap, Covid felled me. I seem to…
When I moved to South Bristol in 1998, as a student, the area was run down, cheap to live in, and the only places to go out were small, scary, ‘old man’ pubs. The area’s changed beyond comprehension now. Some might call it gentrification, but there’s certainly a lot to be grateful for in…
Conclusion: Much more of a slog. But still worth it. If you don’t know, the 100 day project invites people to do one thing everyday for 100 days, recording it, or not, on social media, usually Instagram. The idea being that all those little bits of creativity teach you something, and added up, mean…
I will be opening my house and shed studio on the weekend of 23rd and 24th September, and this time I’ll have a guest. Glass engraver and artist Jess Bartlett- aka The Corbeau Press- will be joining me showing her beautiful, delicate and light filled glass engravings of nature. I’m taking the opportunity to…
I recently visited Tate Modern and caught the Maria Bartuszova exhibition. No, I hadn’t heard of her either. It could be that my knowledge of Eastern European 20th century, female artists is lacking. There again, it could be that our collective knowledge of Eastern European, 20th century, female, artists is lacking. The exhibition was…