- 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 […]
- On Monsters, or art in times of strife
I’m pretty sure summer is meant to be an easier and even sun-shinier time, but lately it seems as though my own view and everyone else’s has been one designed to reinforce how bloody hard it can be to make art happen. And now that the rain’s let up for two whole days in a […]
- Thoughts on Honeybees
The same day I was in Toronto doing my last-minute viewing at MKG127, I also had the chance to catch Adrianne Rubenstein’s first solo show at Board of Directors. I had previously viewed her earlier drawings in a group show at the same gallery and was appropriately blown away by her tangled compositions of colour-shifting […]
- The Portable Library Project Kicks Off
While I’ll be otherwise engaged this coming weekend in an annual cultural tradition that my friends and I like to call Boozefest, that shouldn’t stop those of you within reach of Vancouver from checking out the first installation of the Portable Library Project at the Regional Assembly of Text. Curated by Tara Bursey, this project […]
