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A Dozen of everything : End of year humbuggy anti-list

I’m not a great fan of all this end of decade , end of year list thing…seems like an excuse to pretend you know more than someone else or purchased more than someone else… So here things that really impressed me this year…yes impressed..not made me feel miserable, or reach for a doggy persona…or generally resort [...]

The Real Art World: Hornsey College of Art : London’s Burning 1980

Hornsey Art College burns…a great start.. I am going to describe the 1980’s artworld as it really was for the majority of art-students. Not the cosy new money YBA’s and their cohorts or the city-slickers with loft-spaces and pockets to fill. No this is one lowly art student’s coming of age in the brutal underbelly of [...]

Thinking whilst making things – a challenge – beyond the crisis in art

I have long been a fan of the Sharkforum and resident artist/critic Mark Staff Brandl’s take on the present state of art criticism. This is by way of a practice run to ’scope’ the afore mentioned ‘art criticism now?’ agenda I love that word ’scope’ you’d think we were shooting bears..maybe we are…certainly foxes… His latest project [...]

Academic Artist? Oxymoron?

There was a time when the phrase ‘academic artist’ was synomonous with a certain conservatism and use of traditional strophes that reflected the academic virtues of fine handling of paint, drawing of a certain standard and a certain ‘resemblance’ to the world of the viewer who would recognise the metaphors and the world that produced [...]