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episode nine of creative conversations features Alex Murdin, Creative Places Development Manager for Dorset Design and Heritage Forum. This is a part time position, where he works in a freelance capacity. http://creativedialog.wordpress.com We start off by hearing about his role […]

Me and My #newjobexperiment —>Guess what everyone, I’m broke. Completely and utterly broke. Money? No money. Banks? Three. Overdrafts? Two.I am completely and utterly broke. And, I. Have. No. Job.This is when the tears commence.A few minutes.Hours.Make that a few […]

This job experiment of mine has taken me through many hurdles, many emotions and many obstacles have been put in my path. A lot of people just laugh and can not accept that it might actually happen through sheer determination […]

Grants are free money that is awarded to someone to fund a particular endeavour or project. There is no shortage of free money being awarded if you know where to look. I found that in an article while searching for […]

Holly Ford My predominant ideas are associated with how we differ from human to animal to object. What each of these state’s means, and what characteristics we share or could share. Through being animal we become something before our belief […]

January is a month of planning for me. It is the start of our final major project and is a time for me to plan and prepare before starting to put together my degree show piece. I am spending my […]

Discussing our arts programme for the next few months, sitting on the long bench outside in the January sun and watching sheep. A good setting to begin thrashing out a realistic wish-list of who to invite to give a talk […]

The possibility of opening up my own gallery space after university is becoming more of an option as of late. Discussing it with different people and it is seeming to be quite a good idea. Better than just working and […]

…as a follow on from the previous post… What truth do we invest in? Why and what does it say about us? This discussion brings into question all sorts of things. What is truth? How far does abstraction go? Is […]

I have been asked by the drawing show to send in a print version digital photograph of one of the drawings I submitted. Things are looking happy.

I have a growing interest in the flocks of birds theory… Maybe this will warm the deep winter.. pomegranate, which was a challenge, great to eat along the way.

The Current Dickens paintings of manuscripts are oil on small mdf panels, slightly curved at the edges (fig 1) and painted grey on the side as was the ‘Household Words’ (fig2) I painted the first layers in acrylic drawing on […]

Ahhh, s p a c e… After a massive cleanout of office and studio the head clearing effects of new space is not to be underestimated. I’ve got rid of all my junk and all the junk that I thought […]

Dissertation has to be done in less than a month. Completely done. Currentely having a cup of tea to wind down from the huge freak out I have been having about this. Obviously I haven’t been doing the productive thing […]

Days can go by sometimes without there being much of real significance in the news. This week has been different; January 3rd 2012 was a momentous day for the British legal system and I can’t not acknowledge it here; after […]

Collaborative Space | The Gates of Paradise | Introduction Collaborative Space is a partnership which emerged in 2009 from creative projects and explorations undertaken by artists Hannah Elizabeth Allan and Jeni McConnell working together, and leading collaboration with a range […]