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- Unpopular Culture - Grayson Perry selects from the...
- ARTIST OF THE WEEK - SAM LOCK
- Artists Open Houses - Ravenswood
- Artists Open Houses - Maggie Feeny
- Artists Open House - Southdown Ave
- Artists Open Houses - The Real Mackay
- Sheds
- ARTIST OF THE WEEK - PENNY GREEN
- Through the Keyhole - Barbara Macleod
- Julie Arkell and Polly Dunbar
- Through the Keyhole - Andrew Hood
- Brighton Open Houses - The Handmade House
- Open Studio (Dulwich) - Donna Wilson
- Artists Open Houses - Cardigan In Bloom
- Phew what a scorcher! - 2
- Artists Open Houses - The Forge Newhaven
- Phew what a scorcher!
- Mid Century Show, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on...
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Hammersmith Apollo
- ARTIST OF THE WEEK - PERDITA SINCLAIR
- MAKER OF THE WEEK - Andrea Eserin
- Brighton Open Houses - 64 Stanford Avenue
- Remembering Loppy
- Through the Keyhole - Christopher Noulton
- Manos
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- Brighton Fringe festival Show at Castor and Pollux...
- Through the Keyhole - Fiona Denning
- Poster Design for BAF08
- Stencils Icons and Spraypaint Workshops at INK'd
- Maxine Sutton - Inspired by the Geffrye Museum
- Cake
- MAKER OF THE WEEK - Carys Davies
- Anita Klein Studio Sale
- Zaha Hadid in Innsbruck
- Maker of the week - ABIGAIL BROWN
- Goodies at Harrogate
- Thirty years of looking.....photographs by Garrick...
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- Diem Chau
- Etsy Shop of the week - Dutch Door Design
- CraftScotland
- Xenia Taler Tiles
- Myth and Legend at Contemporary Applied Arts
- Etsy Shop of the Week - Gooseflesh
- Search out paintings in your area - The Public Cat...
- Alex Binnie at Ink-d Gallery
- MANOS - Karin Erikssons New Shop
- Brighton Art Fair - MADE08 decision time
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Unpopular Culture - Grayson Perry selects from the Arts Council Collection
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Monday, 19 May 2008
ARTIST OF THE WEEK - SAM LOCK
SAM LOCK
Painter
Describe your work…..
Worn, eroded, corroded surfaces, visual reminders of places, feelings, things past.
History. Archaeology.
Favourite living artist…..
My mum, Jenny Lock, the best painter I know; she makes work that touches people and that has inherent poignancy.
Favourite historical artist…..
Jannis Kounellis, Sculptor, monumental, primal, weight, substance, immediacy – elements I wish I could achieve within my paintings.
Inspiring place…..
Melvich beach in Sutherland, North Highlands – 20 foot deep rockpools, amazing microcosmic spaces; Glencoe, melancholic landscape made by unimaginable natural forces and stained by human history and cruelty.
Where and what is your studio?
Painting for me is a solitary practice, I try and lose my self-awareness cos otherwise I make contrived and shallow imagery that falls in love with itself. My best work comes from being brave and destructive. My studio is by the Clocktower in the heart of Brighton shared with 5 other artists; a typical day at the studio involves lots of tea and listening to Bob Dylan while making a right racket with my electric sander and noxious fumes with my blowtorch.
Do you work best on your own or in collaboration?
I work best on my own because my paintings are personally driven and introspective but I prefer to exhibit with a group – not just because of safety in numbers, but I like the way different work talks to each other, the conversations that can develop between paintings, sculpture, spaces; connections, clashes, crossovers.
Do you have a good work/life balance?
As well as my own practice, I have a manic job at Croydon College running several art programmes, including A Level Art, A Level Photography and the Foundation Course in Art & Design. I love working with the students but also treasure the holidays where I can be in the studio day after day! I also have a 5 month old baby called Noah who is cute as buttons and a right distraction.
Most overated artist/maker?
Howard Hodgkin! Arrogant and dismissive – paints like a sledgehammer, turns colour into mud. But I’m sure he won’t lose sleep just because I don’t like him.
If you could exhibit in any gallery which would it be?
The Botanical Gardens at Inverleith in Edinburgh – I saw the British Art Show exhibits by Anya Gallaccio and Damien Hirst there when I was a student at Edinburgh College of Art and the setting heightens the senses and is conducive to thoughtfulness.
What one word would describe your feeling of doing your work?
Lost(found).
Who would you say buys your work?
Gawd knows!
I would like to think that they are maybe people who like puzzles, who don’t like to be told what to think but would rather create their own meanings for paintings, who enjoy the freedom offered by abstraction and the opportunity to spend time looking. People who want more than a glance.

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Friday, 16 May 2008
Artists Open Houses - Ravenswood
Jo Riddell has opened her rather beautiful and light house in Florence Road, Brighton for the first time this May but put together a great exhibition. The Open House would be worth a visit for a look at the lovely house and garden but the exhibition is great. (and it is also opposite Sylph Baier's house so you can take in a few at a time
This is a rather poor photo of one of Jo Riddell's large canvasses.
Jo Sweeting's papercut's - Jo Sweeting is exhibiting her carved work but also interesting embossed paper and papercuts.(one day I'll learn how to rotate images in blogger) Jo Sweetings carved pebble alphabet
Katrina Mayo's Etchings.
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Artists Open Houses - Maggie Feeny
Maggie Feeny's house at 88 Springfield Road, Brighton won last year's Best 2D Artist Award and the exhibition has 2 rooms inside showing Maggies lovely atmospheric semi-abstract landscape paintings as well as Clare Crouchmans ceramic wall panels.
The kitchen leads to a small but rambling tropical garden running up to the railway embankment, where Guy Stevens' simple carved sculptures sit beautifully with the lush planting.
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Artists Open House - Southdown Ave
Mel Williams has put together a large and eclectic assortment of artists to exhibit at this years Open House from Vanessa Mooncies crochet jewellery and other items (donuts etc) - belowTo Annebet Wyndhams silver jewellery - this year with subtly coloured enamelling
and Helen Musselwhites paper sculptures/picturesalso Jane Arkwright's paintings, Gabriella Casemore ceramics, Maika Crampton's Textiles, Kevin Warren's Ceramics, Masha Whites brooches clothes and prints, and Jonathan Williams prints - (and more).
Mels house is also ideally placed to visit (walk to) many of the houses featured here over the last few weeks - Brighton Festival ends next weekend.
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Artists Open Houses - The Real Mackay
We visited The Real Mckay - Angela's Mckay's Open Flat (59A Springfield Road, Brighton) on the the first weekend of the Brighton Festival and actually bought something (it's unusual due to lack of funds) but with the new shed and the garden looking blooming marvelous we thought we needed a bird bath to finish it all and we rather taken by Christian Funnel's in the front garden.
Angela McKay this year has been the artist in residence at Preston Manor and much of her exhibition is drawings done there as well as drawings of the Houseboats at Shoreham and farmyard animals.
She also makes things - knitted and printed bags. etc
Angela always seems to attract great makers and this year is exhibiting the jewellery of the talented and original Grainne Morton
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Thursday, 15 May 2008
Sheds
After the sun comes rain, and thunderstorms, winds and torrents, but the first rain held off until a few minutes after the final ridge piece had been secured.
The shed now has changed from a rectangular box to a more of a greek temple shape. Roof trusses going in, skylight installed, plywood and waterproof membrane fixed in place and finally the corrugated iron screwed down. Then the rain came down - good timing!Shed nurds see also installment One and Two
Gables sheathed and door frames installed
The shed is now watertight (with a vapour membrane) and the doors are on - just in time for torrential rain forecast this weekend.Next week we'll get the cladding on and the finish the inside.
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