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PiLot – 2016

last week I performed for PiLot at the university. I tested a performance where i dragged a box using a pulley system and rope backwards and forwards. Feed Back Is this performance Site Specific? Is it about the setting Creates […]

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Norway trip for Peace Painting

Last week I embarked on the long awaited trip to Norway for Peace Painting. I agreed to document the trip for my blog for the Norwegian Embassy, so I’ve split the trip into separate blog posts to post daily this […]

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A Q&A with… John Akomfrah, artist and filmmaker

One of six artists shortlisted for this year’s Artes Mundi prize, John Akomfrah is known for his beautifully-shot film installations that tackle big themes such as race, cultural identity, migration and post-colonialism. Fisun Güner talks to him.

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Printing

Printing went well yesterday. There is almost an alchemy when the image is released from the plate – when everything comes together, it’s a magical moment. I worked out which plates have mileage and which will be editioned, which will […]

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Ideas for displaying work

During our trip to London I was inspired by the layout of a few artists that filled the walls with smaller images. As I have created so many drawings I tested this way of displaying work by laying both my […]

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NYC – Jerome Robbins Dance Archive – Visit 1.1

Sketching and notating some of Simone Fortis improvisations and performances including Huddle. I was beginning to lok at notating details important for me, and how this can be done live, Some aspects lack a sense without the live work but […]

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NYC – Jerome Robbins Dance Archive – Visit 1.

The Jerome Robbins Dance Archive is housed at the New York Public Library for the performing arts. Part of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts including the NYC Ballet theatre and Opera house. The dance archive is the largest archive […]

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TBA Cont’d, Meeting.

Looking to meet and talk to other artists who work with dance and performance in galleries TBA festival was a great place. The C.E.L. artists (Creative Exchange Labs) featured two Artists practice I have been interested in for a while, […]

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TBA cont’d

Images from A.K. Burns 4 screen installation A Smeary Spot. Consisting of 3 large projection screens, a monitor with rolling credits, script/poster handout and sand/resin sculpture. A Smeary Spot created a dark staged environment for an audience to explore the […]

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TBA Cont’d

As part of PICA’s programme at TBA they overlap a residency programme called Creative Exchange Labs featuring artists Local – International with a emphasis on promoting discussion. These paired up 2/3 artists to discuss similarities on practices and concerns. Through […]

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Mock up

Mocking up the mantle piece, using painted card to see the relationship between the vessels and the watercolour painted back drops. So many variations. What to choose? Enjoying this part of the process, a welcome relief from throwing in the studio.

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Time to reflect

So my show’s been and gone, very happy with how it looked and how it was received but now feel strangely detached and uneasy in a period of reflection. Taking time to really look and think about my work is […]

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Thank yous and other news

First a big thank you to a-n for making me a featured blogger on instagram last week https://www.instagram.com/anartistsinfo or @anartistsinfo. It was fun to see the posts appear and check out all the likes, follow some new people and gather some […]

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Proofing the plates

This project started life as a printmaking project and the printmaking process informs the way I approach the subject matter of T-cells. When I look at the files of the T-cells, the details of the nucleus and the visual data, […]

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“AIRE” video origin

I was initially struck by the beauty of Annina’s graphs used to analyse the characteristics of the thymic epithelial cells. Their beauty belies their function and cry out to be reappropriated. Annina Graedel: The graph underlying the video “AIRE” is […]

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A referent back to the world, well of sorts

Print three. This piece has a reference back to the world but is a functional object of another kind, a record. The first two print runs were made by the thing that produced the means to create the image. In […]

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Critical Perspectives:

This is a series of interviews conducted as part of the Critical Perspectives series at Teesside University Fine Art

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