- Writing hard, just not here
I’ve got another Hamilton report for Akimblog due this Friday, and am attempting to clear it off my to-do list sooner than that so I can better enjoy the start of the long weekend. So it doesn’t look like there will be much time for unpaid ranting here until I stumble my hangover back home [...]
- The Bigger Picture
Last night some eighty artists, cultural organizers, politicians and buskers converged upon the newly renovated City Hall for The Bigger Picture, a forum following up on last November’s The Big Picture Revisited at the Workers’ Arts and Heritage Centre. Hosted by the Arts Advisory Commission for the City of Hamilton, the purpose of the evening [...]
- The Real Sobey Shortlist Announced
Knowing that my chances of guessing as well as I did in 2009 were pretty damn slim, I wasn’t terribly surprised to see that the proper, jury-selected Sobey Art Award Shortlist is not the exact mimic of my personal dork-motivated picks. Only two of my selections – Brendan Fernandes for Ontario, and Emily Vey Duke [...]
- New Hamilton-based Blogs
Having started this blog some two and a half years ago without much of a plan in mind, I’ve found myself covering a fairly sporadic mix of issues that arise from being a proud Hamiltonian with a vested interest in the artistic potential of this city. Politics, places and personalities all have their role in [...]
- James North Art Crawl: June
Even before this month’s Crawl kicked off, I had suspected it would be a busy one, and I wasn’t half-right about that one. It wouldn’t be any exaggeration to say this was easily the most successful instalment of the Crawl in recent years, for crowd and atmosphere as much as for the quality of the [...]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: The selective, self-interested edition
Among the many openings and events bound to make tomorrow night’s Art Crawl particularly brisk are a handful in which my participation was enough of a factor to ensure that I’ll still be out and about that night as usual instead of hosting my first open studio. For the truly curious, my iPhone documentation of [...]
- The new studio
After taking a trip back in time to studios past, you might be better able to comprehend my slack-jawed astonishment at the space I am now privileged to call my new studio. Hell, at least two of those previous spaces could be zipped through time and space, dropped in this place, and still have room [...]
- Gauthier and Ratcliffe in Cambridge
I chose this past Saturday for a long-overdue visit to Cambridge on account of the Printmaking Fair taking place at Cambridge Galleries‘ Design at Riverside space, but aside from a couple curious finds I didn’t see anything that especially rocked my world. Not one to waste an afternoon out, I made up the difference by [...]
- A short history of studio occupancy
If anyone’s been noticing a dearth of content this week, that would be down to the process of shifting studio spaces this week, from the convenient smallness (and suspicious black-moldiness) of my home studio to a spacious slice of paradise on James Street North. I look forward to introducing the new digs in a future [...]
