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The idea I have for displaying the video of my brother is to have it on a monitor with a set of headphones that the viewer can put on and sit and listen to it. I want the viewer to […]

I created a video of my brother, Taylor talking to the camera about what happened in Zante. I filmed him at our home to make him feel comfortable, and then set the camera up on a tripod and left the […]

  I was excited to be introduced to the book Hyperdrawing at the start of the term. Reading more about performance and drawing indulged my long standing love of lines and gestural marking and I hoped might give me the […]

Looking at other worlds, other artists casting – Kiki Smith who’s work I admire, casts her work in a multitude of materials. Addressing the vulnerability and the strength of women, which is reflected in the material used to make a […]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a brief blog about meeting another artist by chance and how we connected through our Instagram accounts. This week, I’ve made another connection…. It was while searching the Art Athena  website  (http://www.art-athina.gr/parallel-programme-2015/platforms-project-art-athina-2015/  ) for […]

Gillian LB, Time Capsule, 2015, Ink and paint on acetate When talking about an abstract painting it is far easier for viewers to ask, and for painters to answer “how” questions than it is for either of them to discuss […]

  It has taken me a while to be able to write about this last event I hosted at the University of Salford, Overcoming barriers to artists’ residencies as I am so critical of my own performance and a little […]

I am super chuffed to have been successful with my application for a Professional Development Bursary. As per my outline schedule, the first thing is to set up my new a-n blog! I will be using the award to test […]

Have started work on a Collaboration with the English dept at UCS. Have chosen 2 poems one about not knowing who ones great g’ma really is….and another 6 word statement about the “Pills don’t work”. Hopefully this latter one will […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here To be honest I thought it was a bit of a cheeky application. I’m not doing a thing or making a thing. But I’m definitely at a turning point in my career, a point […]

How does the new film I’ve just finished connect to my other work of collaged women’s faces? Both are about fracture and disruption – shaking things up to allow space for a hint of the ‘Other’ to seep through – […]

A trip to visit Sam Wingate, MA Visual Communication student brought with it a tour of the architectural rabbit warren that is the Royal College of Art. A complexity of stairs and doorways, upwards, downwards, sideways: studio rooms, technology rooms, […]

These are the plates and to be honest, I like them as they are and the would look nice on stands. I did have a little go with printing on to plaster with them but wasn’t happy with the results […]