Manifesto Project – Sarah Chalkie Cloonan

Week 14: Where do painters learn from?

There are two well held views. Reading through the information from and looking forward to Bridget Riley’s new exhibition arriving at the Hayward Gallery later this month I spot both. https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/five-things-know-about-bridget-riley Riley spent her childhood in Cornwall, and she credits the Cornish landscape – its ‘bosky woods and secretive valleys’, its ‘changing seas and skies’…

Week 13: Reviewing Our Manifesto/ The long read.

The Manifesto project from week one seems such a long time ago. Time to tidy up the thoughts, processes and review. “Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucius. 551–479 bc. Our manifesto, ‘Homo Sapiens to Homo Digitalis’ is to examine group 8’s concerns bought about by our technological advancement…

Week 10: Recived a tweet – Yoko Ono Arising

Performance art involving the audience. She requests you to contribute listen read and see her eyes. Yoko Ono Arising — Read on imaginepowerarising.com/ RISING Listen to your heart Respect your intuition Make your manifestation Thereʼs no limitation Have courage Have rage Weʼre all together Follow your heart Use your intuition Make your manifestation Thereʼs…

Week 10: Blog research- In the Gallery: The Swerling Circus of Small – Anthropologie Blog

Roll up, roll up! Anthropologie is delighted to announce the arrival of The Swerling Circus of Small in our King’s Road gallery. — Read on http://www.anthropologie.com/en-gb/blog/lisa-swerling-circus-of-small/ I found this exhibition fascinating and was very pleased to find a blog that explained a lot of what I was wondering about without dispelling the magical memory it…

Week 8: Dear all, who make art and make art happen.

This is the second time I have seen this in three weeks. It is a call to arms. The first time, I saw it was in the zine for Migrants, Didactic Wall by Irfan Hosic And then again in the Hong Kong writings by Critic Yang Yeung. As quoted in an article in Freeze The…

Week 7: Exhibition on Ken High Street where you may browse all things Japanese.

Anno’s Journey @ Japan House https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-Jj_pZfk5AIVT9HeCh1h6QJ2EAAYASAAEgI0IfD_BwE This was rather like Japanese Enid Blyton in many ways. Both developed and produced for children with a huge nod to fairy tales, myths and fables. They are Tales and plots from everyday life with a twist or kink allowing the audience, in this case, me, to engage and…

Week 6: Handbook/Zine with a very real application.

I wish I’d seen this last week. still very interesting and sad at the same time. A handbook for Refugees. Dear all, who make art and make art happen to escape from where they are coming from, to help them get to where they are going to safely. I have noticed the author has called…

Week 6: The cats out of the bag how to let it go?

In this morning electronic news and post-delivery I received this article…..it is notable because it is interactive. I was tempted but decided to have a chat with one of my children and pet the dog before setting off to research my city. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/21/cellphone-screen-time-average-habits?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX01vcm5pbmdCcmllZmluZ1VLLTE5MDgyMQ%3D%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=MorningBriefingUK&CMP=morningbriefinguk_email