Artists and Mental Health
Summary of my research on the mental health of artists for a-n: the artists information company.
Tag Archives: artists
All real artists get turned into a doll
I was inspired– negatively, so… unspired?– by the fuss about a recent Frida Kahlo Barbie doll, of which the doll itself was probably the least offensive thing. Yes, […]
Artists and mental health
New article for a-n News.
Artists are human too: the realist residency
Towards a fair artist residency.
Post election breakfast at Assembly Bristol, June 9th
9am-12, Friday 9th June at The Brunswick Club, Bristol.
My latest column for Sluice magazine
New edition of Sluice magazine out now, May 2017.
What They Didn’t Teach You in Art School
I contributed my wisdom (?) to this book by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley. As a famous idiot once said (and as referred to on page 9 of the book […]
What is Art? A User’s Guide
Southampton City Art Gallery, Thursday December 1 2016.
Sluice__ talks and Space Time Agency performances
Saturday 21 May, 12-6pm
A day of quickfire talks and performances at The Averard Hotel, 10 Lancaster Gate, London W2 3LH
NEO-THOREAU
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Discussions of economics and making a living from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854): SELLING AND AVOIDING THE NECESSITY OF SELLING “Not long since, a strolling…
b-side Symposium 2015: The Excursionist
Portland, Dorset, October 8-9 2015.
ARE YOU VALID?
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Some new research on artists working outside the gallery system has just been published by Axis [1]: Validation Beyond the Gallery. As an artist who…
BUY NINE, GET SIX DESTROYED FOR FREE
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
A PARABLE FOR ARTISTS The early Christian writer Lactantius– who advised the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I– told the story of how the Roman…
SAINTS AND MARTYRS
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Two posts from other sites about audience entitlement, the apparently growing resentment towards any creative person who dares to try making a living from giving…
JEFF GOLDBLUM SAID: A PARABLE FOR ARTISTS
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
Via @AylwinGL on Twitter, with reference to the aforementioned horrorshow that is Amazon Art, a useful observation from the lovely Jeff Goldblum as the least…
Living Wage for the guy, mister?
Wednesday 5 November, 4-7pm at City Hall, Norwich.
Critical Mass: Making the visual visible
Supporting rural artists: Thursday 10th July, 1pm-5pm Hestercombe Gallery, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton, Somerset TA2 8LG
E(book)s are good
It’s ebooks all the way down.
Eric Gill, sans consentement
“‘Bath and slept with Gladys,’ runs one entry in the diary. Such Gill family intimacies seem routine, a habit. A few weeks later there are more surprising entries; ‘Expt. [experiment] […]
TLDNU*
Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
(*Too long, did not understand.) Either I just succumbed to some kind of reading disorder, or the reliably daft e-artnow list has delivered another payload…
