Twitter & FabLab I’ve been enjoying using twitter to find out about arts activity and creative stuff happening in my local area. I can use it to communicate any event I am participating in, a good show I have seen […]
Well, that’s interesting – last time I wrote I was complaining that I was not being committed to my practice. Well that phase doesn’t seem to have lasted! I haven’t been able to write my blog because the lovely Bob […]
back into the rigours of the gallery again today. i’ve had the last three days off. needed it after the two days spent in the gallery. i’m still sitting with the word critical. the longer that there is no feedback, […]
Bank holiday decorating tediousness, new windows, some gardening and putting my foot through rotten floorboards has left a blog-empty head. So this lazy one goes: Weymouth. Windy. Thomas Hardy. No, the other one. Portland. Stone. Quarry. Puffin pilgrimage. Ice creams. […]
Because to copy is to do nothing; it is to be the books being copied. It is to be this tiny protrusion of redoubled language, of discourse folded upon itself; this invisible existence transforms fleeting words into an enduring and […]
EVENTUALLY some stills from the video. I wasn’t sure whether to add them because of the public/private idea I was putting forward, but I feel that they don’t give away enough information when seen this small and as a still […]
Repetition–even in its most mechanical, quotidian, habitual, stereotypical forms–has a place within art…. For the only esthetic problem is how to insert art into everyday life. The more our daily life appears standardized, stereotyped, submitted to the accelerated reproduction of […]
Finishing off and polishing projects for the final weeks….Made, letterpressed and stamped this dust jacket for my Carrington Book….A Project about finding secrets in those withdrawn books that libraries throw out…Injecting new life in the obsolete…
Just bought this Boots P122 Dual Projector off Ebay! Pretty excited, hope and pray it is in good nick for the degree show…
Undercover recording of the emergency meeting for patient named ‘Plate’: Consultation regarding Emergency at Open Art Surgery
Updates on 1st weekend: http://doomsburysetartsurgery.blogspot.com/2010/05/waiting-list-3rd-may.html http://doomsburysetartsurgery.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-2-at-surgery.html http://doomsburysetartsurgery.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-1-at-surgery.html http://doomsburysetartsurgery.blogspot.com/2010/05/doctors-in-action-weekend-1.html
The doors are all arranged and I think they look grand.
4th May 2010 Well since my last blog entry, I have had a lot to contend with! I have realised that I cannot have two passions at the same time! One being work (Nursing) and one being my Art. My […]
I’ve been thinking about what I would ultimately like to achieve through this blog and the project that it documents. I think that the arts/technology/mental health is a fascinating topic that I would like to develop through further study and […]
Oh my gosh it seems so long since I last blogged I have been very busy trying to develop my website, which is now up and running. For those interested it can be viewed on www.michellecook.co.uk still needs some tweeking […]
working on a set of new images at the moment to add to the other five images of hands. The first one I am working on at the moment will be a set of two hands reaching out to touch […]
So as the pressure seems to be mounting the solutions are having to be found for the show. I have a space in fact two spaces which is good. Not a 100% sure if they will work but thats how […]
A line has three things: 2 end points and the line itself This was my first day learning Computer Aided Design which I have never done before. Derek, the engineering manager was teaching me and Paul, a tenant at Hethel. […]
Today was utter chaos. That is the only way I can describe it. The catalogue is now fully designed and in a way finished. So you would think that I can put it behind me and go full throttle towards […]
Response from AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation.
Gurnal Dubs 16.04.10 This is the last tarn in the circle before we revisit the centre, Blea Tarn, and finish the project. We have swum here before so that the novelty of an unvisited tarn was replaced by a heap […]
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