- And we’re back
As August has drawn to a close, so too has my studio-focused hiatus from this blog. While there are still preparations to be made for my show at the end of the month, I will otherwise be returning to my usual artist-writer duality now that September has kicked off the start of yet another art […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- Studio Notes: Caprica and creation myths
My science fiction geekdom will come as no surprise to anyone who’s been reading this blog for any length of time or even looking at my drawing for the last couple years, the latest object of my unseemly delight for the genre being Caprica. While being the prequel to the truly spectacular remake of Battlestar […]
- Professional Practice Bonus Feature (with props to Diana Poulsen)
Further to my ranting last Friday about the meanest basics of submitting one’s work to galleries and granting bodies, I’ve been wondering whether there might be a place on this blog for further anecdotes on career development for artists. While I’m still undecided on that count, I still can’t resist sharing another snarling pearl of […]
- Professional Practice Primer
One of the consequences of sitting on two Boards of Directors for Hamilton’s artist-run sector - and consequently, on two Programming Committees - is that I invariably end up spending a lot of time looking at artists’ application packages for everything from exhibitions to commissions to OAC Exhibition Assistance Grants. Just this week alone, I […]
- Studio Notes: On Cleaning and Making Messes
Further to my goal to better preserve my studio time in 2010 (after the chilling revelations discussed in this post), you may start to notice an increase in studio-related posts on this blog in the interests of self-enforced accountability. This is the first of such entries in what we might call the sobriety-sponsor relationship; however, […]
- Time, and where it goes
I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions - happy enough with my weight, like my bad habits exactly where they are - but this remains a reflective time of year well suited to self-scrutiny.
One of the more useful books I read this past year was Jackie Battenfield’s indispensably practical The Artist’s Guide: How To […]
- The most wonderful time of the year
I apologize for the lack of hardcore art action on this blog lately, as life in the wake of grant applications and launching towards Christmas has left me busy as a… well.
Stephanie Vegh, Age of Enlightenment (Rome: The Final Goal), 2009. Watercolour pencil on extracted book pages.
And while the idea of flying off to Rome […]
- In the studio last week
With blog-worthy content running at a veritable trickle, I had an excess of blessed studio time in which to experiment with a few unanswered questions. One of those being, can I feasibly adapt my work to a traditional bookmark format just because of a random call for submissions? Perhaps it’s a lingering affection for Barrie […]
