Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Make Better Music 43: Has everything been done?

Make Better Music 43: Has everything been done? Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Eye Hear, Heart See 2: Optimo

Every night's a different story It's a thirty car pile-up with you Everybody's getting younger It's the end of an era, it's true. – LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself...

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Make Better Music 42: Being the Next Big Thing

Make Better Music 42: Being the Next Big Thing. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Eye Hear, Heart See 1: Float On

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence The empty-handed painter from your streets Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets This sky, too, is...

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Make Better Music 41: Tempo, Rhythm & Time

Make Better Music 41: Tempo, Rhythm & Time. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Make Better Music 40: Music as an Evocation

Make Better Music 40: Music as an Evocation. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Lost in New Jersey 14: The Decisive Moment

Photographs from a traveller in New Jersey (Matthew Coleman) - The Decisive Moment...

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Lost in New Jersey 13: The Pursuit

Photographs from a traveller in New Jersey (Matthew Coleman) - The Pursuit...

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Make Better Music 39: Everything is music.

Make Better Music 39: Everything is music. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Lost in New Jersey 12: Metonymic Routes

Photographic series: Lost in New Jersey 12: Metonymic Routes - Matt Coleman...

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Make Better Music 38: Work on your weaknesses

Make Better Music 38: Work on your weaknesses. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Lost in New Jersey 11: Signifiers

Photographic Series: Lost in New Jersey 11: Signifiers - Matt Coleman...

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Polly Borland – Smudge

Entering Polly Borland's Smudge exhibition is like entering a nightmarish Studio Ghibli theme park...

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Make Better Music 37: Truthful Creating, Truthful Listening

Make Better Music 37: Truthful Creating, Truthful Listening. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

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Lost in New Jersey 10: Free Energy

Lost in New Jersey 10: Free Energy - Photographic Series by Matt Coleman...

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Brahma: From the Cradle to the Rave

Psychedelic visions combined with a skill for geometry and a lexicon that owes more to mathematics than romanticism, Bramha’s exhibition brings rave culture into the light. But can his work...

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Make Better Music 36: Exploit All Parameters

Make Better Music 36: Exploit All Parameters. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

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Lost in New Jersey 9: Perpetual Transformation

Lost in New Jersey 9: Perpetual Transformation. Photographic series by Matt Coleman...

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Make Better Music 35: Your Music as a Burger

Make Better Music 35: Your Music as a Burger. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Lost in New Jersey 8: Abnormal Behaviour

Lost in New Jersey 8: Abnormal Behaviour. Photographic series by Matt Coleman...

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Trappings, Friezes and Being Female.

Kleio Gizeli, Lisa Holden, Martha Parsey, Carol Robertson, Susan Gunn, Rana Begum. Crossroads, Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill, March 2011 – June 2011. UK Female Artists...

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Make Better Music 34: Quantisation Death Ray

Make Better Music 34: Quantisation Death Ray. One of the problems I have with electronic music is that missing “human element”. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with robotic music, or...

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Attack of the Stereotypes

Attack of the Stereotypes In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street, And on the dark, dark street there was a dark, dark building And in the dark, dark building were… BRIGHT JAPANESE...

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Lost in New Jersey 7: No Convenient Division

Lost in New Jersey 7: No Convenient Division. Photographic series by Matt Coleman...

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Miranda Donovan – The Home Unleashed

Miranda Donovan - The Home Unleashed - Lazarides Gallery, 24th Feb – 23rd March 2011...

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Make Better Music 33: Re-labelling and Pattern Shifting.

Make Better Music 33: Re-labelling and Pattern Shifting. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

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Lost in New Jersey 6: Approaching Life

Lost in New Jersey 6: Approaching Life. Photographic series by Matt Coleman...

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Make Better Music 32: Losing your internal music player?

Make Better Music 32: Losing your internal music player? Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

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Lost in New Jersey 5: Unconscious Factors

Lost in New Jersey 5: Unconscious Factors. Photographic series by Matt Coleman...

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Trick of the Eye, Trap for the Body

A review of the exhibition Elusive and the instillation Floor Zero at Camberwell College of Art. It is often difficult to attend art shows associated with centres of learning without a sense of...

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