May 2012 Blog Posts (27)

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Exciting new collaboration between Clare Broome & Sharon Kelly to provide easier access to life drawing & figure sketching

Back in Northern Ireland and the sun is shining, so instantly everyone is in a different mood. Nice to be away from, over choice and over consumption in the states but as always good to get away and reflect on what is really going on. I was over in Chicago as an invitation from Sue Ellen Semekoiski   an adjunct Professor at School of Art Institute Chicago. We met at a conference last year run by NIAMH Northern Ireland Action for Mental Health. Sue Ellen is an artist, art therapist, non…

Experimenting with this have a look, feedback welcome ;)http://worldtv.com/texttv/

...or is it a combination of the above with luck, contacts, friends, talent, trends and gatekeepers?

I think I have just about recovered, This is what I was here observing this weekend in Chicago

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It was quite something.

Now that the LGBTQ community in Belfast have got an arts festival why not take the next step and go for a Culture centre? The other day I visited America first Culture Centre for the LGBTQ community  Center on Halsted, the first of it's kind in America the centre provides a transparent cultural focus for the community .…

I want you to take part in my Art project.

The project is about myths relating to Mental Health/illness.

I am collecting thoughts on this question;

Do you believe in mental illness?

All comments are welcome

All comments are anonymous

you can message me your comments if you prefer.

please post your thoughts here http://wp.me/p2pUg8-1

I am also looking for people to read a…

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/5/16/what_have_we_been_doing_decorated Dont think any of you are getting this news at home.

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Met these lot last night

It's hard to emphasis the importance of travel, I was lucky enough when I was 18 to spend the summer in the states and on that trip I came to Chicago and looked out into the lake and wondered why it wasn't tidal. Walked around the city and saw Picasso, Chagall and Miro sculptures. It's nice to see that the city has continued with it’s sculpture tradition with it's pieces by Anish Kapoor locally called "the bean"  and a wonderful piece of digital art gone mad which includes a paddling pool…

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Thursday 7th June 2012 starts 730pm - PM textfilms for location and Map.

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Phot by El Porter-McCullough Copyright…

As the evenings shift into more daylight in Belfast and Late night art continues to bring people out into the streets on the first Thursday of the month, life goes on elsewhere.  Laura Graham was made artist of the week because of her piece she has in the University Gallery, go inside and feel the energy. What is a Mantra ? can you actually digitize  it?  In this digital world of our are we missing something ? Something hidden to the human eye that is passed between humans .The idea of this…

Q, Do you think the creation of Art in NI is accelerating of late? If so do you think the collaborative pop up exhibition in alternative spaces will accelerate as well? I personally need another space for June for a bit of colab exhibiting.

Having read an article today about how facebook will potentially be the fourth biggest flotation on the US stock market in the coming months...now that's allot of doe ray me for Mr Z don't you think? I thought what does he do with it? I then thought when are people going to breakaway from what we call hear in NI, bakebook or fakebook? Maybe I spoke to soon, …