Networks, Space and the Artist-Citizen, was written for the Q-Art Transitions Out of Fine Art Education Symposium @ Glasgow School of Art on Saturday 25th June 2016. Staff from across the UK gave their views on the role of fine art education today and share their approach to supporting students as they transition out of art school.…
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The traditional white cube gallery space comes with a cultural set of definitions and rules, it’s a set interaction between viewer and art object, with the object presented for the viewer to contemplate, there is a predetermined level of participation, which often makes it hard to negotiate, both from the experienced and casual gallery visitor.…
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Manifesto has been a project brief for students and staff on Foundation and for Criw Celf, part of my practice when embedded in my Making Protest piece, and a method of consultation when working with Peak (https://peak.cymru/about-us/ ). In all these situations the brief has been simple – write a six point manifesto, based as much as is useful on Claes Oldenburgh’s…
Read MoreOsi Rhys Osmond, the life class and other things.
Published in Encounters with Osi, 2014 Even to breakfast he did not arrive like other people from bed, but from the Atlantic… or from the wood, where he had discovered some rare, beautiful bird…We knew only the zest of his company and his example. (Carey, 1941: 237&8) On teaching days Osi ascended the staircase at…
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CIVIC has grown from an exhibition into a larger project, a network of practitioners and researchers, in conversation about art, architecture and the city; about cultural institutions, place, space, writing & walking. The first manifestation of this project in 2014 was as an interrogation of the city, an invitation to propose architectural and other interventions for…
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Criw Celf West
Read MoreCIVIC: Curators Perspective
In response to the question ‘What do curator’s do?’ I wrote this while developing the exhibition. What’s a curator to do? Why does this exhibition have a curator – what does a curator do? Role: curator, caretaker, carer, keeper, minder, co-ordinator, facilitator, organiser, administrator, middle-manager, cat-herder, nag… To make what? – an ‘exhibition of ideas’,…
Read MoreConsidering the City: Swansea
CIVIC Considering the City: Architecture, Art and the Urban Environment ‘When I decided to step out of the field of architecture, my first impulse was not to add to the city, but more to absorb what was already there, to work with the residues, or with the negative spaces, the holes, the spaces in between.’ –…
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Whiteroom: Waiting Rooms of Youth and Age in Visual Art and Literature
peer reviewed paper presented at Occupation; Negotiation with Constructed Space Conference, Brighton University, July 2009 Abstract: The whiteroom, the sparse and solitary ‘waiting room’ of youth or later life will be examined through a consideration of two of Rachel Whiteread’s works, with reference to literary examples by Charlotte Brontë, Willa Cather, and Margaret Atwood. The paper is…
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