Jill Randall – Tate Project

Began the day in Tate bookshop and bought a new book entitled “The Fall of the Studio” Artists at Work -a provocative title discussing the demise of the traditional studio and the new forms this now takes. ….”It is now rare for art to be produced in a single spot and by a sole individual. Read more

My day began with a coffee in the new temporary cafe next door to the Archive, bizarrely shared with performers from Spartacus Chetwynd’s Turner Prize installation dressed in outfits involving camouflage and plastic ducting ! The Tate was buzzing with press prior to the Turner Prize Opening tonight. Something to think about: …“The APG (Artist Read more

The first week of my project starts on Monday 1st October and I will be working at the Tate all week in the Archive. I look forward to reporting back on my first week of research at the home of British Art. On Monday, I will also be meeting up with Australian sculptor, Frank Wilkinson, Read more

…” The idea of Artist Placement stemmed from a group of UK artists, and was guided by John Latham and initiated by Barbara Steveni, who were experimenting with radical new forms of art. Directed by Steveni, the APG pioneered the concept of art in the social context. From the outset their notion of ‘placement’ acknowledged Read more

From his 1954 demonstration leading to the foundation of the Institute for the Study of Mental Images (ISMI), Hampshire, when his “quantum of mark” approach to Form as Art was discovered, until his death in 2006, one of John Latham’s major preoccupations was to map the relation between this representation of history and that of Read more