Time for the ‘lanterns’. The lanterns which I ordered, I thought were going to be larger than what they were. So I have improvised. I have used the heads and added on the top of each lantern. From here I […]
I have covered my arm chair now in a super king size flat sheet. It took a while to work out how to do it and still now I am not really sure I tackled it in the right way. […]
After reaching the deadline on Friday, the very last thing to do to finish my degree was a short presentation of my work to the teaching staff before they begin the long task of marking everyone´s work. It felt almost […]
Recently hung my paint boxes in different ways to see which looks best. Firstly I tried a single row which was my first vision for hanging these when making them. Then I tried a box consisting of nine, (I have […]
GET YOUR 5-A-DAY York St John University’s Create ’13 degree showcase is fast approaching, and in our usual spirit of camaraderie (and general concern for your wellbeing) we offer you this ‘5-a-day’ of artist splendor. For the next few days, […]
LONDON 10th MAY Deleted my last post. Hope not too many people saw it. Full of doom & gloom. Panic set in & confidence deserted me so took myself up to London to see Joan Eardley at the Portland Gallery. […]
After a further mad few weeks things seem to be going smoothly (touch wood) this may be thanks to my billions of to do lists, I can only apologise to the rainforest and swear I recycled them all. After a […]
SUNDAY Quite enjoying the messiness of oil-bars mixed with some old oil-paints which I found in a drawer. Am sloshing indian ink onto them too… I know you shouldn’t really mix these up but it looks OK to me. The […]
A GOOD DAY The resulting mess after painting. My lovely new oil-bars have been well used. Can see that they won’t last very long !
GET YOUR 5-A-DAY … Part Deux! Hello all! Here to provide your next installment of your 5-a-day of artists! Iit’s been a hectic day here at York St John, the degree show build is well underway now (at both venues!) […]
Despite the negative effects of gloss paint fumes (nasty stuff!) we’re still here to make sure you’re all good and well and getting your daily dose. Here’s your next 5-a-day: Hannah Milburn 1 Of My work sets out to question […]
Floors are painted, works installed tomorrow. It’s crunchtime! … All the more reason why you need your 5-A-Day! Get your fill of today’s goodies, literally something for everyone… Plus, we’re all really friendly (as if you needed more reason to […]
Zoltar. Well I didn’t expect to have my fortune told, but this was something that I saw in the film “Big” as a kid, and I thought it was amazing that something like this existed in the world.
Videos Having so many different errors with uploading videos, it’s such a pain but I guess I have to learn at some point. As of right now I’ll be uploading all of my videos to Vimeo so hopefully this works! […]
Projection in the space So I took several videos of the projection in the dark space yet none of them came out well enough. The main reason was because I didn’t want to use a flash to record it was […]
New Work!! May – Onwards. This is might turn out to be a long post so please bear with me, I just need to get this written down though because the blog’s been quite silent for a while (due to […]
29/04/13 Monday Morning Mirror Experiment. Today I just toyed with the mirrors, scratching into them and seeing what would happen as a result. I’m trying to consider ways in which mirrors can manipulated so I’m hoping you can see that […]
This feels brave. I can post photos of textiles up here and all is well, I am a confident stitcher and textile mangler… easy peasy! But… this is very different. I have been playing with photos of textiles and making […]
An artist who I have been looking at since my first year of uni, is an artist called christian boltanski. This artist had influenced some of my first year work, by inspiring me to use the candles to show work, […]
Eyes on walls, the site where I have brought an artbook by the Lora Zombie artist talked about before. I have been looking at all the artists on this site and they all appeal to me, the two that are […]
Alex cherry, the other artist mentioned from the previous post, is slightly different from the Hidden Moves artist, with not having as much block colour but having thinner lines with more detail, but less layers of colour involved in the […]
Today’s drop in workshop session inside the church, started off as a cross between a ‘Little Britain’ and ‘A League of Gentleman’ episode. ‘I want to do plain things…. not all this fancy stuff’, complained one little old lady. She […]
Here is someone who last year I would sit and watch her videos. These videos would be speed paintings and her name is ‘MaryDoodles’. Attached to this post I will put up the video of the coffee panda, one of […]
Here is a video of me making the mould to be able to make my doll heads out of due to pouring wax into my last mould, which has left bubbles in the mould which come through on the heads […]
Here is another video, this time it is of me adding the bible onto my angel figures. This is simply paper maché and the bible which has stuck to the angels. I have done this so that you cannot see […]