Sue Lawty was Textile Artist in Residence at the V&A in 2005.
School submissions to World Beach are always a delight. Here, from students working in stunning and remote locations towards the extremities of our...
Stick brown canes in clods of earth lined up in buckets take refuge in my hall, the ground outside still frozen and closed for business.I dug them up before Christmas. Hurriedly,...
SOFA New York 2012: The International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art, Park Avenue Armory.A pair of lead textile pieces informed by V&A research were...
The route to museumaker and Killhope can be tracked back to early research in the fabulous stores at the...
I was handed a hammer and encouraged to whack the rock hard. In an instant a startling starburst flash of light glanced from the interior as it fell...
I have mentioned previously about childhood coastal summers in Yorkshire. A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I walked a more northerly stretch from the magnificent pier at...
Tapestry Cartoon: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, Luke 5: 1-11. Raphael (1483 - 1520). Italy...
More fantastic projects... In April 2009, Ka'u Homeschool Art Class Keikis were World Beaching on Punalu'u Black Sand Beach, Big Island of Hawaii. They wrote: ' Mothers &...
World Beach Project hits the 1000 mark! Fantastic! I feel so proud. (I'm never quite sure why pride is considered to be such a sin... just bubbling up, unbidden, as it does.) I...
My father was from Hunmanby in the East Riding of Yorkshire and summer holidays as a young child were spent on the stretch of coast from Bridlington to Scarborough. We got there...
Northern Art Prize 2010. On the long list but not the short. Short listed artists are: Alec Finlay, Lubaina Himid, David Jacques and Haroon Mirza. A very warm good luck to all of...
Liquid squidgey sloppy shiny dull matt flaky heavy crumbly runny rock hard. Clay... in all its forms. And as raw, basic and unprocessed as it gets. Marl Hole 2009. A film by Neil...
I thought this might be a good point to share a few hands on images. In the making of Calculus hundreds and thousands of decisions were wrestled and questioned in researching,...
Taking Time has moved on to its second venue at IC at the Dovecot, Edinburgh. Last Friday I travelled north for the opening. The solid mass, almost oversized, stone architecture...
Had to get out. Run. Unfit. Up. Slow Hard. Black ice. Imagine the dance. Clumsy skitter. Low bright white light. Muscles struggle. Feet pound. Heart beat. Harsh breath. Icy long...
The first thing I did on discovering Google Earth (a few years ago) was to steer to the snaking, ridged vast expanses of a big hot arid desert ‐ probably it was the Sahara....
It has been totally fascinating to witness senior textile conservator, Elizabeth-Anne Haldane's meticulous conservation of this beautiful piece over the last year or so. In this...
The opening to the public of the new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries is imminent! A suite of ten galleries will house a sumptuous array of nearly two thousand objects including...
A selection of drawings and designs from the weekend workshop at Birmingham Art Gallery… done by all ages - mostly at the younger end of the spectrum; from age 2 (!) to...
I’ll be in Birmingham this weekend running a drop in workshop for families as part of the Taking Time programme of events (see post below). Each living thing has specific...
Calculus 2009 2 x 3 m natural stone on gesso (photo credit: John Coombes) Calculus “…To see a World in a Grain of Sand…” William Blake I wanted to take...
The artists of Northeast Arnhem Land are famous for the quality of their fine bark paintings. In my search to find images on the Yirrkala.com website I kept being drawn to the...
Of Time ‐ Place ‐ History ‐ Geography ‐ Geology ‐ Life ‐ Links ‐ Web Community ‐ Commerce ... and Art So. Eastern Arnhem Land. I...
There has been a wealth of really interesting World Beach submissions recently… including a small cluster from a remote region in Northeast Arnhem Land at the top end of...
I was there (so early) this morning. Darkness. Stab of the alarm. Hot tea. Ringing phone…. …. and a warm welcome to Radio Australia from the soft accented Barbara...
UPDATE: The World Beach Video is now LIVE on YouTube and Vimeo...
And last week an interview with Lily Feng for the BBC World Service. It was for a Chinese Radio broadcast and online report about the World Beach Project, going out to Chinese...
Earlier this month I was interviewed about World Beach by journalist Florence Waters resulting in a fine spread in the Telegraph Review. Unfortunately the critical point of...
I have found myself being reeled into the web that is ‘One and Other’.Antony Gormley’s project for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is certainly one like no...
UPDATE: The video is now LIVE on YouTube and Vimeo ! Filming a few weeks ago... against the backdrop of the cross channel...
