John Akomfrah wins the Artes Mundi 7 prize.

Photography and film making win the biggest art prize in the UK! In November, when I saw the Arts Mundi 7 exhibition on an OCA study day, I had very little time to watch Akomfrah’s exhibit.  We had spent more time than we should have at the previous 4 exhibits so we had to rush to…

Recent exhibitions in Plymouth

We had a meeting of the SW new initiative on Saturday 21st January in Plymouth.  After over two hours of looking at one another’s work, we set off to the Theatre Royal to see the exhibition of the 21 Group, set up and curated by them. The group comprises mixed media artists in the South West.…

Summary of a 15 minute interview with Erik Kessels

Summary of a 15 minute telephone interview with Erik Kessels conducted on 26th October, 2016. For Assignment 3, “We are all photographers now” my essay led me to an analysis of the language used in the 2011 Arles Manifesto “From Here On” drawn up by Erik Kessels, but I had some questions for which I…

RWA exhibition review

Exhibition review 164th Annual Open Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy. (Joint mixed media exhibition.) With OCA students led by Michele Whiting RWA, Bristol   23rd November, 2016. Curators: Gallery Director, Alison Bevan et al. Location, setting & atmosphere. This was an enormous exhibition, enough to bamboozle any visitor through its numbers of…