Photography as a means to process
I wanted to share with you this great book I have been reading by Wendy Ewald 'I want to take me a picture'. Yes, the grammar is...
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Li An Li
- Jan 26
- 2 min
Objects and why artist collect the strangest things.
I am trying to work my way through Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter. Isn't it bizarre when someone writes and it's what you've been thinking...
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Li An Li
- Jan 25
- 2 min
Looking at Mierle Laderman
Here are a few thoughts from https://hyperallergic.com/355255/how-mierle-laderman-ukeles-turned-maintenance-work-into-art/ Mierle...
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Li An Li
- Nov 20, 2020
- 1 min
Workshop - Art from the Heart
Art from the Heart was a workshop run by Alex and Evie Mowbray. Work was created after being presented with trigger words. The artworks...
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Li An Li
- Nov 10, 2020
- 3 min
Nothing- A UCA MA Show
This week I had the opportunity to be part of a show with two fellow MA Fine Art Students at UCA; Rups Creegan and Lucy Bevin. It was an...
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Li An Li
- Jul 28, 2020
- 1 min
Covid changes art
Due to everything happening in the world at the moment. My work has had to take a different turn. I have been recording Lockdown through...
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Li An Li
- Jul 27, 2020
- 1 min
Pouring paint away
This gutter run for the 'Ephemeral vs Eternal - points in time' is such an exciting project to be working on it is a marble run of paint....
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Li An Li
- Mar 18, 2020
- 2 min
February and the beginning of March
Now C-19 is getting very serious and uni has canceled face-to-face meetings and our JHG show has been cancelled I know have the...
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Li An Li
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
Curatorial Play
Today we played curators. By this I mean we were given a white space and all brought work in to play around in the space as though we...
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Li An Li
- Jan 6, 2020
- 2 min
The Future of Art
Should art become more interactive? Given so many experiences of the everyday life are now online and digitised is that really where art...
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Li An Li
- Jan 6, 2020
- 1 min
Mark Bradford
The intensity of scale, materials and the work that one can feel when enveloped by his canvas really stands out. His work teeters on the...
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Li An Li
- Nov 18, 2019
- 1 min
Keep on keeping on
Well producing work has taken off. I have had a very productive few weeks. I have been looking at the properties of paint and its...
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Li An Li
- Nov 18, 2019
- 3 min
Trip to London
MA group went to London. We visited the Freud Museum and Camden Art Centre. It was useful in so much that we managed to talk and chat...
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Li An Li
- Nov 1, 2019
- 4 min
Letting the paint lead
This week is the second week of half term for my children. They have been sick so we have stayed home and not visited the galleries I had...
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Li An Li
- Oct 27, 2019
- 3 min
Inspiration in the ordinary
It has been half term and sadly I have missed out on a week of studies (this is the first of two weeks). So for this blog post I thought...
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Li An Li
- Oct 17, 2019
- 4 min
'Very Little' - my second internal show
It is the third week of term and it was my turn with three others to put on a show based on the title ‘very little’. There were two main...
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Li An Li
- Oct 9, 2019
- 1 min
Feeling like an Artist
This week we have had to put on a show twice, attended critical theory session and had induction into metal and wood workshops. Alongside...
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Li An Li
- Oct 7, 2019
- 1 min
Show - Generations and Nations
The title was Generations and Nations to be interpreters anyway we pleased. From literally, self identity, to the generations of...
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Li An Li
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
Generation and Nations
The start of the MA is great but it is also overwhelming; learning how to think about the main body of work and how to adapt it to...
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Li An Li
- Sep 30, 2019
- 1 min
Day 1
got introduced to the studio today and a whole bunch of practical issues arise. how to make big scale art? How to protect work? I even...
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