Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

This is brilliant for independent artists who are research driven #research #independent #artists #sculptors

‘Emerging artist’ opps -how chrononormativity isn’t natural law but is biased against later starters (me☺️), minorities with different financial pulls + women or other carers. It’s a cultural/institutional imposition that should be resisted. #emergingartist hyperallergic.com/1042641/when...

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Check out info from @dacsforartists (on Instagram ) On Artist Moral Rights - personal rights that can protect an artist or creator’s reputation, as well as the integrity of their work.

Lovely to meet up in person with @royal_sculptors members at @vam_east to view the collection. We all agreed it was a valuable resource when trying to design crates and supports for shipping work! Photo credit Tere Chad #sculpture #v&a #royalsculptors

After 30 yrs in the Arts this is the first I have heard of this scheme www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Creativity is process… a series of often messy, wonky connections that suddenly coalesce into wonderful. Artists/ creatives are skilled in this process of unique originality. Because it’s not just seeking outcome. #art #creativity #ai

This week I have been collaborating with the @royalsculptors.bsky.social x6 post on Instagram showcasing recent residency in Wick, Somerset. I experimented w sound & explored the voice & its gatekeeping, through material & performative acts. Much to now develop.. www.instagram.com/juliebrixeyw...

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Announced today! From 2026/2027 the Royal College of Music will validate & confer the degree programme at Rambert School of Ballet & Contemporary Dance - creating a new exciting collaborative partnership for creative exchange 🎊 🎓. #music #dance #FutureofMusic #performingarts

Usual story 🙄…my lovely SET studio is closing 😭 (> flats called ”Painters’ Corner”!🎨 yup😠!) I was ready to start unpacking & airing my ideas from recent @royalsculptors residency, instead will be packing up & boxing things in! @ealingcouncil help? #studios #artistsneedstudios #artiswork #ealing

Please take moment to read.. it’s not what you see on TV… but instead the quiet person unable to wave or shout. Question them/ask… you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. Usually people playing in water make noise. When they get quiet, you must get to them & find out why. #signsofdrowning

Been a bit quiet recently as it’s been a v busy month - but now on #residency… absorbing the peace

These amazing biscuit designs absolutely brought me joy this morning. Bravo @ellamchawk.bsky.social 👏🏻💐💥

Congratulations to Beatrice Haines winner First Plinth Public Art Award…announced this eve at Dora House. Photograph courtesy Royal Society of Sculptors. #sculpture #Firstplinth #publicart

I'm recovering from a breakdown at the moment and trying to get back on my feet with my workshops & Etsy. If you could maybe RT my new creative & mental health workshop (previous few posts today,Friday 25th) it would help so much to show it to a few more eyes. I'd really appreciate it, thankyou 🌿

What a learning journey… Started fabulous Field Recording course by Marcus Leadley in Jan, invested in kit & now been selected to develop & experiment my ideas on Royal Society of Sculptors residency “Awakenings”. Fab to have time to push things forward (& make a few wonky things along the way☺️!)

Lovely to have an in-person @royal_sculptors gallery trip to Saatchi to see work by members who gave talks about their works, textiles by Anne von Freyburg & on to Serpentine for Giuseppe Penone. Always so good to exchange ideas around Sculpture. #sculpture #contemporaryart

Great afternoon talking to @tansyspinksartist about visual scores & sound. Huge thanks for taking time to give me such a deep dive into sound art & opp to draw improvised sound score. Show on until 23rd March with live performance of ?? my score??😉 - on Sunday. #sound #soundart #scores #visualscores

I will be in @onepavedcourt gallery ⭐️ Sunday 16th 2-4pm - so if you are free do drop by & have a chat! ‘What passes through’ (2024) (detail) ‘March Hares’ curated @limpitproductions One Paved Court Gallery Richmond TW9 1LZ  6th-30th March Wed-Sun 12-5pm #contemporaryart #screenprint

Lovely to catch up with so many friends Thurs PV at “March Hares” curated @limpitproductions @onepavedcourt . Chuffed with the beautiful placement of my work (bottom): One Paved Court Richmond TW9 1LZ  6th-30th Mar Open: Wed-Sun 12-5pm #limpitproductions #juliebrixeywilliams #contemporaryart

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

It's been on my radar to do for ages... but I've finally started the Field Recording & Soundscape Composition course run by Dr. Marcus Leadley (Goldsmiths). Just bought myself some proper recording kit + a couple of extra fun mics www.marcusleadley.com It's all at that exciting discovery phase….

Today’s find for #walkingstatues Julian Opie ‘Curly Hair’ (2021) at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery #Ealing @walklistencreate.org

So glad I managed to get to the last day of Hew Locke insightful & moving commentary & exhibits made in conjunction with British Museum’s colonial/imperialist collections. Extraordinary. A v quiet thoughtful audience digesting…sometimes with tears. #hewlocke #BritishMuseum

Walk listen create walking art group walklistencreate.org/about/ have asked me to alert everyone to their new project on bsky.social @walklistencreate.org >> asking for image posts worldwide of Walking Statues ⭐️ (post w #walkingstatues to connect with collection). Keep your eyes peeled! #sculpture

It’s rather well put together - I enjoyed its satire on the art market.

Just about to start using projection over the body again in a collaboration with performer, Libby Worth. I can’t believe it’s been 6 years since this photo made in the first year of my PhD. #art #film #projection #body

A sewn life drawing from a few years ago. Remember really loving the speed of the machine and creating the line by moving the fabric space around the static needle instead of inscribing. #lifedrawing #drawing #line #textile #sew #art

🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & the British Heart Foundation in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏 450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES! Let’s be ready to save a life www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...

When I was a child my great aunt always sent us a large Quality Street tin, so I immediately fell in love with this @tattydevine bracelet some years ago. Signing off for a relaxing Christmas. Have a wonderful time. Xx 🎄✨

It is with deep sadness that I learned of the death last week of dancer/choreographer Wolfgang Stange. I met Wolfgang in 1979 & later did 3 wonderful workshops w able/diff abled dancers from Amici Dance. Listen BBC radio 4 ‘Last Word’ to hear about his life (actor Ben Kingsley portrayed him). RIP W

Detail of my work “Two Too Foreign” (2024) - new sculpture dealing with the emotional pressures of migration. #art #foundobjects #sculpture #contemporaryart

More Artist studios under threat from development but plans afoot to save this art community in Reading …please consider signing the petition!! chng.it/QyP2f4xVg6

🌟! 🌟 We’re currently recruiting- opportunity to work in a creative, inclusive environment dedicated to excellence in dance. ⁠ 1️⃣ Dance Lecturer ⁠academic to join Rambert School's world-renowned faculty. Deadline 12.12.24 ⁠ ⁠2️⃣ Caretaker Deadline 6.12.24 #RambertSchool #DanceCareers #HiringNow

So touched to receive this beautifully painted thank you card by my Arts Emergency (U.K. youth charity) mentee ‘Z’ (aged 17yrs) 😍. We rounded off our year’s mentoring sessions today by visiting wonderful #jewellerydesigner Josef Koppmann - 💥 #arts #creative #youth #opportunities #potential

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Artist friends who are looking for advent calendars online can now search #ArtAdventCalendars . Here’s another fabulous one for today Katherine Souter @kateartist.bsky.social . A nice way for artists to connect?

Congratulations Jasleen Kaur ✨ #Turnerprize

Another advent thread. Please tell me about more…!

A reminder that my Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar starts tomorrow. 🎄 For some of you, it may look a little familiar… 😊 Artist: Frank Hampson

Love working in a place where piles of abandoned tutus lurk in corners. Now imagining a Christmas tree 🎄🩰 of tutus! (although think Royal Opera House may have beaten me to it!) #rambertschool #ballet #dance #christmas #sculpture

Visited Tate nominees Turner Prize, #London. Blown away by Pio Abad’s beautiful drawings + other dignified but oh so powerful (& intellectually engaged) works about colonial history Philippines esp loss of visibility in museums. Deserves to win🏆🤞🏻 @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #colonial #Marcos #art

If you need more tribes/friends… but don’t forget to look up at the real sky occasionally 😉😁

Forgive me if I can’t keep up with follow backs. This weekend has been amazing. Film still from ‘Passing Between Folds’ (2017) with Libby Worth & Bucy McDonald #switchtobluesky

Looking forward to wandering about this new terrain chatting #art #sculpture #writing #dance #antiques #psychology #collaborativeprocess and more…with all my new Bluesky friends

Hello to all my new followers🙏🙏 An impt strand of my practice is #collaborative Tell me about your successful collabs? This film still is from “All The Frequencies” made with performer/academic Libby Worth >>Amplify, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington (2023) #film #interdisciplinary #art

The ever wonderful Laurie Anderson reading a piece by Rebecca Solnit written after the US election….how we can have hope via persistence # hope #rebeccasolnit #laurieanderson www.instagram.com/reel/DCMhByY...