An interesting discussion this week from Louise Atkinson who looks at the relationship between artist and museums. Louise considers how artists have intervened in museums, either through being commissioned to respond to the collection, creating interpretive works, or sometimes even…
The themes that emerged in Week 50 included the importance of being local (heritage and networks), scrutiny, communicating in better ways, and how to do things. Mark Braggins started the week by looking at some of the images of his…
Louise Atkinson updates us on her research as part of her PHD. This week Louise takes part in the bi-monthly Artwalk and blogs about two large scale wall mounted photographs by artist Bob Clayden. Louise also hears Bob talk about his…
The posts in Week 46 were as varied as ever but with a strong emphasis on healthcare and training, with some ghosts of writing (but no ghost writing), the odd Trojan horse and bovine brain, and some sport thrown in.…
This post relates to a previous one about a drawing session in the Hatton Art Gallery in which I drew a landscape from a photograph I took years ago (and there will be a future one about painting the same…
Louise Atkinson writes about the Museum of Contemporary Art, a large installation at Tate Modern by artist Meschac Gaba in which he questions the Western art world’s definition of art in relation to African artists, and collecting policies. Practice as…
In this post, I go back to basics in an enjoyable free art class, to push myself into returning to drawing. I try drawing a couple of views in the North Pennines from photos I took years ago. Hatton Gallery…
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