My project was inspired by a play written by caryl churchill, titled Top girls. The play is a about a career driven woman during the eighties,who goes on to have some sucess and celebrates by throwing a dinner party to […]
I’ve just had the funniest conversations that made me really think about myself. The conversation went like this. I walk in to the playground and I see a couple of the parents talking and I’m asked, ‘you’re a feminist right’, […]
With the privatization of the royal mail now in force, what will happen to our beloved monarchy of stamps? Will we still have the Queen’s head on the face of these stamps? Why can’t we present everyday people of society […]
I have really missed studio 22 and was SO pleased to get back. I had a couple of hours yesterday-Tuesday-(still feeling a bit wobbly) and today had most of the day there with a short break to get back for […]
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.” ― Erich Fromm Time is moving on… words and phrases that spring to mind… Confrontation, defining moment’s, significance, ethics, morality, motives, right, wrong, understanding, misunderstanding, clarity, realisation, […]
I’ve been stitching these layers together. Up till now, I had been just piecing the bits, and stabilising them with stitches. Now, I want to make something tough, protective. Marion Michell asked if they were thick, layered strip on strip, […]
The American land artist Nancy Holt, best known for her 1976 piece Sun Tunnels and her collaborations with Robert Smithson, has died at the age of 75.
The Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value has embarked on a two-year project to gather ‘evidence and arguments’ about investment and engagement in our cultural lives. We report from the first of the Commission’s ‘provocation events’ and ask why, despite a growing consensus around the importance of culture, cuts and more cuts are still the order of the day.
Kate Brindley will be returning to Bristol to take up a new post at the city’s high-profile centre for contemporary arts.
My main artist inspiration would have to be Sam Taylor-Wood. I started looking at some of her work in my A-level art then moved on from her at the start of my degree however I find myself constantly coming back […]
Looking into other artists to further inspire my work and ideas I came across this piece by Joel-peter Witkin. As it has an obvious relation to my work with a suspended girl. However after further analysis of this piece I […]
Clare strand is another artist I am looking at specifically her pieces ‘Girl in two halves’ and ‘Aerial Suspension’. These are again utilizing different Photoshop techniques and other things that I am able to achieve using Photoshop. I like the […]
Another interesting area of photography and Photoshop I stumbled onto was how much it has changed over the years. How people reacted to edited photos in the past and how they react to them now. An interesting example of this […]
The rolling stone is a magazine that has come out every two weeks since 1967. It focuses on politics and popular culture. I am interested in it as they always have a unique cover photo on every issue of a […]
Some Photoshop Practice I started with this picture I thought it would be an easy image to practice editing out the background of as it has a mostly white background with a mostly black image that I was to keep […]
Removing the background on some of my photographs. When I originally attempted to create my piece of work in the style of Taylor-woods it was not done to a very good standard. I attempted it as a tester or demo […]
Since the previous post I have finished editing out the suspended girl from the background and the hair to as good of a quality that I could with the lack of a green screen used on the original image. I […]
Ahhhhhhhhh an exciting update my green screen has just arrived!!!! I have set it up but haven’t actually got to using it just yet. I brought a green screen 3 meters by 6 meters. A 3 meter frame and two […]
Where has all this rain come from? As I sit here, eating my Weetabix and cradling my tea, all I can think of is where has all this rain come from? I live in Manchester, an area well known for […]
My parcel of paper flowers arrived in Jamestown yesterday, which is pretty amazing considering the Post Office said it would take more than 8 weeks ( it took 13 days) Feel a lot more relaxed about the installation now, but […]
Eliot North presents poems from London visit, 27-29 January 2014 Extraordinary writing from Eliot North! The Evelyn Tables Dead bodies splayed, dissect to instruct. Engrained into knots; Italian pine. Spinal cord draped, melted branches. Soft varnished hard; invisible ink. Arteries […]
The Gremlins inside This piece is called ‘The Coward’. It is a relatively large painting (85cm x 120cm) and originated from a photograph of an organic object which I have digitally manipulated and then combined with oil paint. Originally I […]
Week 66: 16th – 22nd DecemberMy return to a focus on material was timely, as this week was the first in a series of Leverhulme institutes by visiting professor Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, which was all about matter. Professor Christov-Bakargiev was named […]
