A word on creative blocks When you rely on your creativity to pay the bills and build your reputation, you can’t afford to be short of ideas or the energy to put them into action. When you can’t get over […]
well the weather was kind yesterday and Lynn Dennison and I went off to the grotto to film, record and sing. we could have done with a lot more time but a kind volunteer had opened the place up especially […]
Is aesthetic pleasure taking over? Someone said to me that they could not read the quotes I am preparing with the letters I have previously cut? They said they are just looking at the colours? WHAT? As a result of […]
Topography Disarranged opens tonight at 6pm. Naturally, despite months of careful planning and incremental, timetabled actions, we’ve had several days of frantic wall/floor painting, technical video and audio hiccups and finally work hanging. The first of the two rooms was […]
During my research I came across a Nun born during the 15th century,her name was Sour Plautilla Nelli, and this painting Titled The last supper, it is interesting that women were not allowed to paint the male form, and looking […]
In Alan Boureaus study of Pope Joan- Legend refers to her as Androgyne or Hermaphrodite eliding the distintion between transvestitism and anataomical ambiguity. “Hermaphroditic pope” when we look at the old testiment Genesis 1:27 Adam envisaged as androgynos- the Image […]
I thought it might be helpful to write a post voicing all my ideas about how my work will be hung. It’s one thing to have a firm decision on what you want hung but another thing entirely to then […]
Lately i have been focusing on these passport pictures as momentoms, acting as an object that helps the veiwer remember. Certain passport pictures have been sitting in my memory frozen without me even realising for years. One particular memory was […]
I began my project with square collages as i have shown in an earlier post. I used old family photos in the collages and i felt as though the photos were the more important part of them, they had more […]
From creating work based on memory, my dissertations and the subjects of it have helped me move forward with my work. From Lousie Bourgeios’ Destruction of the Father, this installation piece so dark and thought provoking got me into thinking […]
I had a few ideas running through my head at the thought of creating an installtion piece, my ideal one to be creating a room with four walls and really getting the feel of nostalgia in there, however I did […]
Interesting… Having been totally overwhelmed by the whole job thing, with just one afternoon left to do, I find myself thinking about my own work again. I read Marion Michell’s blog ( www.a-n.co.uk/p/2157883/ ) with new thoughts, prompting me to […]
New film out now! Snowflake films have just released a brand new film of Christin Johansson’s performance piece Ceremony of Her Porcelain Spirit, created especially for The Ceramic House and performed on the opening night of Fantastic Tales. Nicki Lang, […]
I have finished taking my final images for my degree show I think these ones work the best out of all the images I have taken over the degree show build up period. I have really tried to think about […]
Since looking at other artist I have been thinking how I can really recreate my own room and make it much more personal. For me this would be letting the audience see what I really think and feel. For me […]
On this blog I aim to discuss my ideas and frustrations about being an artist and the arts rather than my practice.
Asia Triennial Manchester 2014 returns for its third edition this September, with the theme of ‘Conflict and Compassion’.
Since I last wrote in here, I’ve been struggling to get anything done at all, although I’m still trying, it feels as though I’m just banging my head against a brick wall. http://helend-blackbird.blogspot.co.uk/ I recently undertook British Cycling Skyride Leader […]
