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Spent yesterday afternoon painting my light box and plinths. Tried out putting foil round the interior of the light box which made it brighter but also discovered that there was an element of uplighting which will light the prints. However […]

Stuart John Hine Stuart has worked within the area of community arts for the past ten years. Currently his practice lends itself towards creating contextual visual art for the gallery space. Taking his experiences as a youth and community arts […]

Decision-time: My art-life needs to change. Or should I say evolve? Have been thinking hard these last few months about what I can do and how I can do it. The thing is, I’ve got M.E. and it affects every […]

I’ve just had some prints delivered for work at Southams Cardall Collection; I’m really pleased with them and can’t wait to see them installed! Unfortunatly I have to wait at least 2 weeks before I get to see this due […]

Trying out different Photoshop layers, colours and patterns. I really like the coloured versions of the image but it’s hard not to go overboard with the colour – maybe subtlety is the best option? I think the rich colours add […]

A couple more Photoshop tryouts…

C O – E V O L U T I O N T H E O R Y & P R A C T I C E I am an east coast Canadian currently on sabbatical in the United Kingdom […]

It’s been a little while since my last post and that’s mainly because I contravened my rule of not doing any unrelated performances. And so, last night I found myself interpreting four performance scores from 1970 in a cold warehouse […]

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Blog posts for me are a bit like approaching revising for GCSEs ( the memory is etched on my brain), the longer you leave it between sessions the more paralysed you feel at restarting again. Once the post in January […]

The ‘Official’ Open day has been and gone now. So though we’ve been open 3 weeks, its official and now hopefully, maybe people will start hearing about us and popping by. Harriet Harman MP and Shadow secretary for Culture was […]

Tracie Shaylor Tracie Shaylor’s practice shows an awareness of trajectories within modern art history and an understanding of where the individual’s practice can situate within that, whilst still finding a form of expression that was not imitative. There is a […]

What effect does adding a frame have? Using a simple style of frame helps with the vintage feel of the image. Thinking about if I would use a frame in my degree show – maybe the image wouldn’t be so […]

Whilst last week was mainly about deciding what could work where for the ever-looming end of year show (thanks to Xanthus’ scale model of the room we will be using), today was Ellie Cunningham’s and my turn to unleash our […]

Great. I have just edited my film in FACT using their state-of-the-art film tech. It took me all of my alotted time to edit my 2 gig odd short video which I will be screening on Friday. It is fairly […]

A visit from my husband’s daughter, husband and toddler daughter yesterday was delightful. She is just on the verge of toddling actually and does a pretty fast crawl across the carpet. I mention this in part because the life of […]