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Silent Partners

Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish For my dissertation research, I’ve been looking at how uncanny feelings can arise from the way in which we get opposing readings of the animate and the inanimate. Dolls, mannequins and wax figures […]

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Saturday night blog update

Went to see the new space for Bethlem Gallery and next years  show. Bit of a building site and cluttered but I took some pix and approx measurements. Sadly it didn’t fit with my initial thoughts but will I was […]

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Planning, Private Views and Scrap

Yesterday I started on some work in my studio.  It’s really difficult to know how soon I need to start making work, how much time it will take to make the work I want to make and how important it […]

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Adventures in stormy Manchester…and posh Chelsea

This cold and breezy autumn day seems like a good time to finally finish the story of how I  made my Morris & Co-themed works for ‘Tangled Yarns’. To recap: My idea for these pieces was to interlace classic Morris & […]

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ABSTRACTION

WEEK 9 Artists in attendance 11 Abstraction quite a difficult thing to get your head around if you’re over 60 and have very rigid ideas of what ‘real’ art is. Most of the group said they didn’t see the skill […]

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Plymouth Arts Centre appoints new artistic director

Independent curator and writer Ben Borthwick is to join Plymouth Arts Centre as artistic director, where he will develop the organisation’s public realm and visual arts activity and lead on the centre’s contribution to the Mayflower 2020 festival.

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At Maggie Cafe, Lewisham

Still expanding options… Finally visiting Bethlem Galleries new space today, which will give me an idea of the size and dymanics I have to work with ) I tempted to try for a wind turbine in my grant application? Xx

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Revisting and renewing old works

On one of my previous blog posts I spoke about how I have used materials from old work to make new work. This week I am still playing with the 6 LED Light Sheets sourced from my old work Repeated […]

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Met someone on Demark Hill Station

Turns out her son had shared a flat with James Cracknall, the Olympic rower. She said you know the guy that got hit on the head by a truck., he had anger issues following his brain trauma. Alan Bennet has […]

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The Edges of People Don’t Stop at Their Skin

The edges of people don’t stop at their skin… This phrase arrived in a poem I wrote over a year ago, before the collaborative/joint exhibition with Bo Jones. I suspect this post might meander about a bit, but I feel […]

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