Carol Anne Jones
Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!
The other day, I had a few hours to spare in Shanghai and decided to spend them browsing the TinTin and Hergé exhibition at the Power...
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Carol Anne Jones
Mar 20, 20212 min read
What makes an artwork valuable?
Everydays: The First 5000 Days, Beeple Traditionally, a combination of factors seems to make an artwork valuable, like, who owned the...
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Carol Anne Jones
Nov 16, 20203 min read
Who’s the artist? It’s a computer
A few weeks ago with an easing of the Covid restrictions, I took a Didi ride to the Beijing 798 art zone (798藝術區) to visit the UCCA (the...
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Carol Anne Jones
Oct 11, 20204 min read
Terracotta Journey
I remember feeling overwhelmed as I walked into the exhibition hall. Suddenly I faced 35,000 figures and double the number of little eyes
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Carol Anne Jones
Nov 13, 20192 min read
Airport terminals are looking more and more like art museums
I haven’t done any travelling since August but soon that’s about to change with several trips planned which I’ll be writing about in...
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Carol Anne Jones
Aug 11, 20193 min read
Northern Stone and Peat Smoke
This month I spent a day at Kirby Gallery in England’s North West. I took part with fourteen others in a workshop run by Anthony...
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Carol Anne Jones
Apr 13, 20192 min read
All About Love Speaks Forever in Shanghai
Travel broadens the mind as the saying goes, and last weekend I was in Shanghai. As a visitor it seems like a very cosmopolitan city and...
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Carol Anne Jones
Mar 10, 20192 min read
Data data data........
Data collection is something I used in my Gap in Time series where I collected imagery and text then combined them with methodologies...
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Carol Anne Jones
Oct 14, 20182 min read
Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, mixed-media OR single (mono) disciplinary?
In the West, the cultural world awards season is coming up and in contemporary visual art the winner of the 34th edition Turner Prize...
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Carol Anne Jones
Sep 12, 20183 min read
Visual imagery overload
Being involved in Art Education, I recognise that western art education seems to be increasingly adopting the term visual culture, rather...
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Carol Anne Jones
Jul 19, 20183 min read
Ynys Mon
This summer I took a welcome break to visit my mother’s ancestral roots in North Wales and find some peaceful space away from the rush to...
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Carol Anne Jones
Jun 12, 20182 min read
Bridging two worlds
Recently while marking visual art papers, one candidate’s study talked about scientists and artists in contemporary times bridging the...
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Carol Anne Jones
Apr 10, 20183 min read
Buddens
Yet another invitation to an art show opening arrived in my inbox a few weeks ago and was interested to see one of my favorite artists,...
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Carol Anne Jones
Feb 17, 20183 min read
‘God is really an artist, like me…I am God, I am God, I am God.’
I had an interesting conversation the other day prompted by the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and one of his most iconic works, the...
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Carol Anne Jones
Jan 12, 20184 min read
The art of Printmaking
Printmaking has always been one of my favourite forms of expression having first become fascinated with the process during my A Level...
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Carol Anne Jones
Nov 12, 20172 min read
Visit to Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2017
Next month I hope to visit the Louvre Abu Dhabi which opened to the Public on 11th November. The opening of this great institutional...
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Carol Anne Jones
Oct 11, 20172 min read
Back to the drawing board?
I’ve been asked to tutor a student who's building a portfolio of drawings to present to an academic institution in France. The brief is...
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Carol Anne Jones
Jun 11, 20172 min read
I’ve been distracted….
My monthly blog’s almost five months late and there’s dust gathering in the studio, but I’ve got a great excuse, it’s down to...
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