I wanted to be a dancer when I was a child. My mother booked me ballet lessons, but after a … More
Author: annekafrench
Fog / Fire in the Lungs, In Between Time Festival
Today I have to steam the floor in the gallery. I have to erase all traces of blood-paint from its … More
Lectures at Birmingham School of Art, February 2015
I’m looking forward to getting back into some higher education teaching in the next couple of weeks at the beautiful … More
The Artist and the City and KULES Residency, Stoke-on-Trent
A new five-year project in Stoke-on-Trent titled ArtCity aims to re-stimulate cultural growth and opportunity for those living and working … More
Donald Rodney and Luke Fowler: Recent Acquisitions and Commissions in the West Midlands
Two of the region’s best-loved galleries have been working hard to acquire and commission artworks from some of the most … More
Josephine Pryde: These are just things I say, they are not my opinions
Riding a miniature locomotive train through an exhibition is an unlikely way to experience a series of photographs. The train … More
Upcoming reviews and In Between Time Festival
I am delighted to have been selected for the Writers Programme for the upcoming In Between Time Festival in Bristol. … More
I Sell the Shadow to Save the Substance
An exhibition of new photographs by Birmingham-based Lucy Hutchinson takes as its central idea the ways in which identities are … More
Conflict, Time, Photography
Toshio Fukada’s series of gelatin silver prints, ‘The Mushroom Cloud – Less than Twenty Minutes after the Explosion’ (1945), show … More
Objective Considerations of Contemporary Phenomena
MOT Projects’ current exhibition investigates the uses and possible abuses of written, spoken and constructed forms of language. Curated by … More