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How to access critical feedback after your MA

by emma gregory

I’m an artist 7 years’ post MA. I’m researching how individuals working  outside the structure of an art school access critical feedback from their peers because this is what I need to find near Bristol. These are the gateways I’m currently looking […]

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A Q&A with… Rachel Howard, abstract painter reflecting an unstable world

by Fisun Güner

Rachel Howard’s paintings reference an unstable and violent world, drawing on political events and the devastation of war. With two current London exhibitions at Blain Southern and Newport Street Gallery, Fisun Güner talks to the artist about what inspires her work and how her early experience painting spots for Damien Hirst influenced her approach.

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Now Showing #236: The week’s top exhibitions

by Jack Hutchinson

This week’s selection of recommended shows includes: Pumpkin paintings by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at Omer Tiroche Gallery in London, and in St Ives, Anima Mundi’s exhibition of Abbi Trayler-Smith’s photographs showing the effects of Isis on the people of Mosul in northern Iraq.

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by Jessie Davies

Well despite the David Shrigley Rabbit above, drawing at the underlined project workshop last Thursday evening was not at all scary…! Collaborative drawings made between  groups of two or three people contributing to a single drawing revealed the different ‘grammar’ a […]

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Oil painting of foil on window

by Isabel Reeves

Study of foil placed on window- exploring it’s colour and reflections, studying the way in which it can be transformed as a material.

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rushing into a perfect storm

by felicity Parkin-Bell

‘working with a new material’  sounds obvious doesn’t it?  Every time I tackle a new material I think, ‘this is going to be a creative adventure, and I’m excited’ – what I forget is the strange one step forwards two […]

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Influenced by Sonja Baumel

by Chelsea Morgan

A project I have planned coming soon, using petri dishes, was influenced by Sonja Baumel’s work where she lays her body into a large petri dish (acting like the canvas) and lets the bacteria from her body grow (acting like […]

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Hair is a strange material to work with

by Chelsea Morgan

I really enjoy working with organic materials in my practice. There’s something almost quite wrong about it, as though I’m breaking some kind of rule or something. Hair is something I’ve found myself working with this year. This is one […]

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Superconductor

by Elena Thomas

I had great responses from all sorts of people on International Women’s Day when I posted a Sedimentary-Pea-Pod-Vagina image on Twitter and Instagram. (The feature image at the top of this blog) These shapes, forms and lines are a little […]

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Urns on a mantle

by Sara Brighty

I have continued to explore memento and artefacts. My interest in the urn has increased and I am currently working with vessels of various shapes and sizes. I am considering the mother as a vessel and the interchangeability of the […]

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Testing ideas

by Dawn Cole

  To date there are 3 things which to me have struck a chord during my residency: The gossamer thin flags that are displayed in the Buff’s Chapel The images from Dane John VAD Hospital and the fracturing of identity […]

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Cotton bud experiments

by Chelsea Morgan

I’m currently in the last term of university at Carmarthen School of Art, and this term I’ve been focusing on working with domestic, every day objects. My aim is to experiment with them and try to make them useless in […]

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