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Sketchbooking

While working on the Simulacrum series which uses a collage fragment and a printed element derived from other fragments, I altered the surfaces of some pieces. I experimented with aging effects for two reasons. Firstly because some of the surfaces […]

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Itchiness and Comfort

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here In preparation for writing a proposal including an explanation of my work, I am reading “Stuff” by Daniel Miller, and “Material Memories”by Marius Kwint et al. Reading of the latter has again brought me to […]

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Small Map of Street

This image shows a road in the town with lots of shops on. I took photographs of each frame so that I could tell a short narrative with the image. This drawing was done with pastel and it helped me […]

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Street of Shops Charcoal Drawing

This has helped me to think about how a street in the small town may look, ready for starting to draw the final images for the film this month. I found doing this picture quite useful as after it’s completion […]

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New era for Turnpike Gallery, Leigh: “Art and culture are a catalyst for the town”

Built in 1971 and all but abandoned by the cash-strapped local council in 2013, Turnpike Gallery in the former mining town of Leigh near Wigan, is entering a new stage in its history with the creation of a community interest company to run its programme. Natalie Bradbury speaks to arts manager Helen Stalker as the gallery relaunches with the Jerwood Drawing Prize touring exhibition.

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Penultimate meeting and a death

So it’s been a while since I posted here and that is because due to my father being very unwell and my mentor being in the US for two months I had a gap in my mentoring program but on […]

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Note to self

To continue with the sense I have not lived, that I have not tasted freedom? The idea fills me with horror. Help me see…   (When Nietzsche Wept, 2007)

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Studio Visit: Les Bicknell: Standing and Sitting

In the wilds of Suffolk, there is a beautiful unusual house. Contained within that house is a studio and a multi-functional table where ideas are explored and work is developed by artist Les Bicknell. In these spaces paper is cut […]

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