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Analysis of Contemporary Context writing workshop, 13.02.18

Mapping spaces in and around the art school (and two from distance):

 

There will be some strong work in this show – don’t miss it!

Image: Steven Sales

Josie Llewellyn and Steve Sales have been selected for the MA and other Postgraduates Contemporary Art Exhibition 2018, at Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School.

Josie Llewellyn Marine Plastic 2017

 

Steven Sales Accumulation Vessel 2017

 

Exhibition opens February 2018. Watch this space…

Winton Community Academy in Andover is seeking a part time Artist in Residence with a Ceramics specialism. We are offering space to work within the department with full use of equipment in return for basic technician duties to include maintaining the Ceramics facility.

Involvement with aspects of teaching, running workshops, clubs, exhibiting and selling work is also a potential feature.

CONTACT ZOË CROCKFORD HEAD OF ART FOR AN INFORMAL CHAT AND MORE DETAILS

zcrockford@wintoncommunityacademy.org      07887 499554

William Gass being painted by Philip Guston before a reading in 1969.

Photograph: Digital Gateway Image Collections

A collection of tips for writers published in the same year saw Gass advising: “Stay away from the machinery of the modern world. It will ruin your imagination. It will shape a heart break and make demands of their own kinds.” And: “Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to be any. Be happy because no one is seeing what you do, no one is listening to you, no one really cares what may be achieved, but sometimes accidents happen and beauty is born.”

Despite Gass’s ambivalence about the messy business of connecting with an audience, his wife, Mary Henderson Gass, told the St-Louis Post Dispatch the author had been corresponding with friends this autumn. He was “honoured to be associated with the best writers, ones that he admired”, she said. “That was his aspiration – to contribute something to the greater world of literature.”

Full article here.

i.e. try continually to work out what your discipline is [/ disciplines are], through production, and thereby contribute to its [/ their] ongoing definition and expansion.