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Images in Fiction – Margaret Atwood

I have just re-red three early Margaret Atwood novels, triggered by a chance discovery in a charity shop of a green spine Virago Lady Oracle.  They fit my theme of transforming/multiple women.  In this novel Joan/Lady Orace/Louise K Delacourt was […]

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Final days for Degree show aarghhhh!

Well, I’m busy busy, on the 10am to 10pm shift, in preparation for the Degree Show, 2016 UCS. Working non-stop, till I drop. I am blessed with two amazing daughters’ that have dinner ready for me! #degree show, #homelife walls, […]

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Final furlong

Finally the last few days are upon us and we are all busy working and busy withthe mundane jobs such as painting the floor ,the walls and fixings on the back of the paintings.I have also filled in my risk […]

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Getting work into art galleries etc

Hi folks Doe’s anyone have any advice for getting work sold through galleries? Do you know of any good galleries that are happy to take on new artists etc?   Thanks  

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Backstory, then London to Macau

The art of ceramics is so entwined with Chinese culture that porcelain is also called ‘China’ in English. China is well known in the world for porcelain and the city of Jingdezhen is spoken about with a passion in the […]

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Other Books & So

One of the tasks in my itinerary was to find out about Other Books and So, an artist run bookshop in Amsterdam organised and hosted by Ulises Carrión that ran from 1975-1978. I’ve undertaken some desktop research to establish how […]

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Stedelijk Library Visit

Dead Ends This blog post is about coming to a perceived ‘dead end’ in the research and then finding out that it’s not a dead end at all, its working out what happens next and making plans on how to […]

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Sorting out my space!

This is what it looked like when I went in to find the temporary walls in place. I was going to put my heads on theses walls which are opposite each other, but even after reinforcement the walls were not […]

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The Final Hurdle

Here are the final pieces cleaned up and honed. I’m delighted with them, but photos don’t do them justice. The lead has come up very striking, deceiving even, you would think they were in a different metal. Not toxic, like […]

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TESTING

Today I tested that all of the videos that I burned onto DVD’s worked on the monitor they are being displayed on, and I also checked that they looped, and everything worked perfect, very pleased with how they all look. […]

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VINYL LETTERING OUTCOME

I chose to display some words related to my project on the wall and on the booth. I chose to use black matte vinyl lettering because it’s very clean looking, and I thought the style would go well with the […]

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Finishing the booth.

I am so very happy with the outcome of the booth idea. It has turned out very proffesional looking and with three of us it was fairly easy to construct at uni. I managed to use an old bed sheet […]

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BUSINESS CARD AND CATALOGUE IDEA

I want to display the catalogue and the business cards that I made as part of professional practice on my degree show. I think this would be a great way to get my name out there and will provide the […]

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Creating the Booth

We have made the booth (me and my dad) and we put it together in my back garden, then we are going to paint it, then take it apart so we can transport it easier in the van to uni, […]

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Plans for the booth

I have drawn up some plans (very rough and not at all accurate) and between me and my dad we decided on what measurements the booth was going to be. We originally were going to make it a lot shorter, […]

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