I’m writing this freshly back from London where I attended the National Saturday Club Summer Show at Somerset House. After seeing the end product of 1500 young people’s hard work displayed in one of the Nations’ Great Galleries I have realised I have plenty to say on this subject! (but then, when do I not?) […]
Category: Artists
I’m one of Banbury Artists’ Cooperative Featured Artists for March [Exhibition, 2018]
I’m one of the Banbury Artist’s Cooperative showcase artists for March! After the preview evening got snowed-off, we tried something new, the meet the showcase artists day event last Saturday. Safe to say it was a well attended and fun day of talking art with the arty minded people of Banbury! If you want a […]
Workshop with Cally Shadbolt
Locally-based fine artist Cally Shadbolt visited the College in January to talk to us about how to write an artists’ statement, her own work and to hold a workshop with us. I’m going to focus on the activity we did and where it took me creatively! Cally graduated from Buckinghamshire New University in 2003 with […]
Rose Finn-Kelcey & Aleksandra Mir @ Modern Art Oxford
There is something really wonderful about going to an art gallery and finding artists you’ve not heard of before whose work really excites you. Back in October, I headed to Modern Art Oxford and discovered the work of Rose Finn-Kelcey and Aleksandra Mir; two very different artists working in very different ways but who both […]
Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius @ The Design Museum
Our first trip of year 2 was to the Design Museum for Breathing Colour by Hella Jongerius. This exhibition collects Hella’s body of work exploring colour together, which gives an overview of the way she perceives colour as well as the wide variety of materials she uses in order to achieve this. Jongerius (b. 1963, […]
Materials & Objects in the Tate Modern Boiler House
The Materials and Objects exhibition at the Tate Modern covers such a vast range of ideas, media and artists that it takes a while to really take it in. Below I have selected some of the pieces that really caught my attention. They’re by no means an exhaustive look and it is really worth taking […]
Trafalgar Square, The Tube & Public Art on the way to the Tate Modern
A look at some of the things I spotted on the way to the Tate Modern.
Tate Modern Visit September 2016
Exploring the Tate Modern for the first time, focusing on the exhibition in the Tank Room.