All in Sound
What makes a successful art exhibition? Gallerists can provide a special bridge between an artist’s work and its audience, advocating for the artwork on the artist’s behalf. They handle the installation, marketing and selling of the art, leaving the artist free to talk to their audience and enjoy the ‘buzz’ of the exhibition opening.
A treasure hunt for sound vibrational art led me to Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery in southern Wales to view the works of Megan (Margaret) Watts Hughes. Her extraordinary pictures were created by singing into paint on a glass plate, revealing what the artist believed was the invisible “voice of God”.
A journey with wildlife veterinarian Marie-Pierre Puech as she works to heal injured or orphaned birds to release them back into the wild.
The work we do. I’ve been thinking of that today as I wove strips of photocopied posters advertising the silk industry which dominated the Cévennes up until fifty or so years ago.
Today is le quatorze juillet, the 14th July. In Australia we call it Bastille Day (after the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution) but in France it is referred to as la fête nationale (national day) and as such is a public holiday.
Today I thought about failure and about the process you go through as you creatively work through your ideas.
How to actually start a new project from scratch? When I walked into the studio space this morning, I was again struck by the idea of making a space for me
Its Monday morning and the weekly market has set up radiating out from the centre of town near the church, filling the streets
The first part of any new project is reconnaissance ~ that's a French word meaning preliminary surveying or research from the verb reconnaître,
Throughout our UK travels, we have visited many neolithic sites, from the Standing Stones of Stenness, Ring of Brognar and Skara Brae on the Isle of Orkney
