Have all my scans lined up and operation scheduled for next week. Might as well be upfront about the “ill health” – it’s breast cancer and I’ll only know what it’s like as I’m going through it. However, I am […]
What would life be like without these online spaces now? It is almost impossible for me to imagine. I’m definitely in agreement with Jonathan Moss in his latest post. It has opened up a whole world of communication and support […]
Pretty quiet on the Anatomy & Drawing front over the last month. I have not been to life classes since before Christmas and am unlikely to get to any until the weather improves. This is due to a combination of […]
The undefined, the past allowing the future to flourish, spaces never being finished. These thoughts in my work run over to this project. How I may reflect them through the drawings of the house I am yet to decide, but […]
A stolen night in a hotel A stolen night in a hotel, followed by a sleeping bag in the kitchen and divided worlds on faceless heads. A fleece skirt of best friends and a present thrown through the door. Nine […]
Gustav Metzger: Decades 1959-2009 29 September- 8 November Serpentine Gallery A distorting between A) the hidden Facade. History of violations entwined with the guilt that you in turn have told us we need to feel. Guilt for a feeling not […]
Crikey ! Very crikey! One of the A-N’s 2009 blog of the year!!!!! To say I am really rather surprised and humbled is an understatement. I thought it was just me and the dog that read it and the dog […]
Annette Messager the messengers 4march-25 may 2009 Southbank Centre, London Magica, With it’s forced, magnified, intricate perversion. Of the ‘look but can’t touch’ at the tomb of those lovingly knitted jumpers & suitcases of 1000 photographs. Cheeky, take another look […]
A day of shaky hands A day of shaky hands, of a dry spit mouth. To share an affinity with the Hermit life style, sheltering from the beautiful non-descript afternoon, I’ll remain in my cave of white walls and wooden […]
It has been a most productive day at uni, with positive verbal feedback re my practical work. The triptych explores the concept of being separate but related to each other in both form and colour. The elements that I am […]
The exhibition space is looking tired and needs a lick of paint so I posted an invitation to a paint party on the HMS forum. As always, there was a positive response and all we need to do is set […]
Composition. Due to the increased weight of the MDF elements, as opposed to cardboard, a replication of the maquette composition was pretty infeasible. At least without butchering one or two of the elements in some way, as I did, to […]
After having written my context assignment I feel refreshed and ready to move forward to my next experiment which I will show for the midpoint. I am focussing on simulacra in advertising, communication and how it very much a means […]
I am excited because I have finished my first piece of work since my sketchbook exercise.
Contemporary Fine Art (Mart) Over the past term my peers and I have been on placements learning about the challanges and rewards involved with actually trying to become a professional artist of some degree. My blog will consist of my […]
in november 2014 we published our go and see bursary review. it informed an art walk in belper parks www.corridor-arts.org.uk
The one where: The teacher told me to do less art. I still get surprised by the gulf between students abilities to carry out the same task! We made cardboard models of school in Malawi today. Not as random as […]
Some photos of the scrawling in one of my many notebooks…..
JULIET- GSA Mutual crawled in to a hole over Christmas to eat and sleep, underground its great, fluffy body swelled and got stronger and as the old year expired The Mutual, Glasgow emerged into the light a bigger, better beast […]
Sea Observations Part 1 17th December. Snow, hail and strong winds – the sea is wild and wavy, white spray against the boat, a dark aquamarine meeting the bruised brown sky at a black horizon. 18th December. The sea is […]
Sea Observations Part 2 1st January. I saw flying fish shimmering over the sea like giant dragonflies. 2nd January. On the bridge I look over the railing, straight down to the sea, 15 metres below. The deep blue is interrupted […]
Time and Waiting For four days the table is occupied by Katy’s jigsaw puzzle. It mustn’t be moved. It’s a difficult one: a picture of a steam train, with lots of leafy foliage and vague white steam, which means many […]
(Mis)Communication Without easy communication, time slows down, and we think more about what to say, how do we communicate our feelings. We miss people. Writing a letter becomes an action, a gesture of expressing feelings and emotions which have no […]
Identities Part 1 We set off on this journey with a pile of books and texts and a suitcase of assorted costumes, unsure as to how these would coincide on the journey to unravel the myth of identity we were […]
Identities Part 2 We became very aware of our gender on board ship. From before we arrived we were repeatedly warned of the Polish seamen. We were told again and again how unusual it was for two young women to […]
