Middlesbrough – Aimee Charlotte

MotherOther Artist Talk

I was asked (I volunteered) to give a talk at the most recent Mother Other artist networking event – held in Middlesbrough. It was an event for artists who are also parents, and I recently had a baby – this is relevant context. I wrote a talk called: ‘How to be Creative between the HoursContinue reading “MotherOther Artist Talk”

Middlesbrough Art Weekender ‘22 CLUSTER

Our studio is full of flies, an exhibition update

Twice removed from reality

I saw the phrase “twice removed from reality” the same place that I get all my news and culture updates – on a meme. For poetry in particular, or art in general, Plato argues that art is twice removed from reality, because it’s a copy of an idea Art imitates idea and so it isContinue reading “Twice removed from reality”

Home: Revisited

The Arc, Stockton is running a project over the next few months to celebrate working class northern artists. I agreed to take part in a brief which explores what ‘Home’ means – this meant filling a sketchbook around the theme of ‘Home revisited’ I decided to explore ‘over the border’ of Middlesbrough. The part ofContinue reading “Home: Revisited”

Further Snakes at Let Us Eat Cake

Upcoming exhibition

Artists cookbook

We all submitted recipes and did interviews for the covid artist support cookbook last year – but they didn’t add the Interviews in them – which is a shame because it’s nice to know a bit about artists who made the images (There’s a copy of my interview below) – I’m not sure if IContinue reading “Artists cookbook”

Ladies and Animals

I’ve become mildly interested in ladies with animals and I don’t know why. I just like them holding each other – coexisting in the same space I pondered on this, reading scraps about it here and there. I did a bit of research and found a lot of classical portraits of women holding animals inContinue reading “Ladies and Animals”

Teesaurous park

This was in no way my project, and all done by the volunteers of Community Champions Middlesbrough The photos are mine, unless specified, or clearly not mine, because they’re from 1979 I did help out with some painting, because the dinosaurs are near my studio. I even got to paint a small triceratops, which hasContinue reading “Teesaurous park”