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Many thanks to Beth McIntire, Senior Curator Prints and Drawings, and Nick Thornton, Head of Fine and Contemporary Art, for giving up their time to show me the stored works on paper, prints and fantastic drawings by Gaudier-Brzeska. Since then […]

I’m pondering what this experiment tells me. It’s a photograph of a shadow from my studio space falling onto one of my favourite collages. It connects what I’ve made to architectural space and forms – the shadow of the studio […]

During my Second year of University I came across the work of Wilhelm Sasnal and was hooked. Unfortunately I have missed the opportunity recently to see his work up close but I remain transfixed by his use of colour and […]

To start this post nothing better then a video from the first year, it is a demonstration of how to make a casting face with plaster, the volunter it was Jen, and really it was very interesting and educative the […]

The surname, Rookes, of the women who ran The Widow’s Coffee House was an irresistible pun. Rooks are notoriously clever gregarious birds. Rookery isn’t just where rooks nest, it can also mean deception or trickery. Bird is a derogatory word […]

On Monday, I finally met up in person with Paul Hammond of Hammond Associates and Kyla, the Kirkby shopping centre manager, to look over the unit that will be used as a base for artists. To re cap, I will […]

  From an early age, I was inducted into the Canular. When I had my Luekemia at aged 2, the nurses were unable to find veins. So much so, they had to go for veins inside my foot and my […]

I have two apologies followed by two rebuttals this week. I have been warned that I could be shooting myself in the proverbial foot, but I fear I have little of either feet left to dispose of!! My first apology goes […]

Framing art practice within an anthropological perspective is related to ideas about the ways in which cultural context contributes to art practice and creativity. Such ideas show how patterns of thought can re-emerge in societies, through the gradual “restructuring of […]