Landscape and myth, the story that tries to explain. This subject is board and something which I cannot separate out when trying to respond to an environment. The moon and the crocodile brought this home to me. It was there […]
Jane Ponsford, visual arts organiser Reading Louise’s last post here I think she is underselling herself. On Monday I visited the studio to chat to her about activities and materials for the upcoming Big Draw and while I was there […]
TAKE A BUTCHERS 29.09.09 Yesterday was the beginning of Invitations d’artistes. I arrived at Madame Noel’s Butcher shop at 8am where I met the lady herself, her husband Michel and their son Eric. I did a lot of filming in […]
Dear Readers, Here is the final entry for my blog on the Re-place exhibition that happened earlier this month. Having begun the blog in May looking towards this exhibition I feel relieved that we achieved what we set out to. […]
Thinking about learning contracts… As part of our professional practice module we have to do either a placement or a learning contract. As I’ve taken up a few placements in the past (and still no closer to knowing what I’ll […]
The last week I have been knitting trees! As a research for this project I have knitted small trees using old sheets which I have ripped. They work really well as they are very sturdy and can stand by themselves. […]
“Whilst doing my dissertation on the artist Joseph Cornell, I read an article entitled ‘Pergolesi’s Dog’, New York Times, August 20th. 1980, by Guy Davenport (author and former teacher at Kentucky University). In the article he mentions a “Countess Borghesi…a […]
Hello! This morning saw the first workshop of the first module of the PG Cert in HE titled “Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education”. We kicked off with a group participation exercise whereby we formed pairs and discussed […]
Continued from previous post; The execise was slightly broad and vague and, as i seem to be finding with the group tasks, we did go off on tangent somewhat, it seems one person tends to dominate the discussion but manages […]
Since I last wrote, things have really started to pick up momentum. An Enterprise Inc meeting made me feel back on the ball again, and as we look forward to the opening of the new Enterprise@Lincoln building, where Sparkhouse businesses […]
Ghosts Calling, We went to the woods this evening. One of the usual walks you know. Cosmo is a gun dog as he is part golden retriever I dont know if poodles are french gun dogs they might be? Anyway […]
Four prints accepted into the Pushing Print at the Pie Factory in Margate- thrilled. I would love to make a relationship with Margate- I like its face- it suits me. ‘Accident and Emergence’ run by two of the London artists […]
I have decided it is time for a new blog. The summer in a certain way has felt endless and I haven’t seemed to be able to find the enthusiasm to keep this blog updated. I have seen it all […]
Post by Anthony Boswell. Collaboration Space originated in both of us coming into contact via our shared location and projects through Longhouse. On our first meeting, we discussed our individual practices and shared interests. With the idea of a joint […]
FIX09 is up and running after Saturday night’s opening and the event got off to a great start with Anthony Schrag’s Beer Tree, also an immersive and engaging performance from Steven Anderson and Hideous Beast set up their ODD JOBS […]
Sketches and photographs’, does the truth (not truth more what I want to say) lie between them or somewhere else completely. Why am I looking at this again shouldn’t I have it worked out by now. I think in the […]
Sent: Thu 9/24/2009 9:17 AM To: North Cluster Academic Subject: Missing mug Hi all My tea mug went missing from the kitchen area yesterday. It is cream with a lilac dragonfly on the front. If anyone knows where it is, […]
Been very busy since my last post. On Wednesday I decided to spend the whole day working on ideas for my fellowship project but instead worked on bookmaking ideas. I’ve been thinking of a book I want to make for […]
This last few weeks have been taken over with personal events and so I have only just today finished threading the heddles of the loom. I hope that now I can start to make progress and move forward. Last week […]
Men in hoodies have been taking rubbish and putting it into white vans this week: The ‘spies’ were part of a week-long waste analysis study by the Northamptonshire Waste Partnership, a collaboration of eight local authorities working to reduce rubbish […]
what have i learnt about blogging in the time i’ve been doing it? 1 it’s best that i make up my own rules 2 i should avoid political rants 3 i should avoid hypothetical issues 4 i like posting lots […]