This recent work seems to confirm my interest in experimental processes, exploring materials in a playful way but also with an investigative attitude. During the first semester on the MA studio practice I wanted to start with few materials, making […]
Val and I have been preparing for the first Focus Group we will run at Firstsite in a couple of weeks. The Focus Groups are an essential part of the Postures of Making project, as it allows us to gather […]
Gillian, L-B, Unfinished, 2016, [Oil on Board], 1000 cm x 1500 cm For this painting I began by using Michael Harding oil paints thinned using Michael Harding medium PM1 and Pip Seymour Oleo-resin PM5. I was interested in the extent […]
Have been experimenting with printing from lino cuts on pizza polystyrene bases to provide faces for my Maypole Ladies. The base takes the ink well, if I had more time I could paper the walls with screaming faces……but have to […]
I’m using a 2 part addition cure RTV (room temperature vulcanization) silicone rubber that gives a flexible yet tough and reusable mould. The process starts by accurately measuring then mixing the silicone base material with the curing agent. The silicone […]
In her installation entitled ‘yellowbluepink’, Ann Veronica Janssens experiments with light and colour to pursue the effects on perception. Entering a room you are greeted by a wall of pinkish-red light and the sound of other people in the […]
Have made a moulding box from MDF with it’s reasonably smooth surface I should be able to get away with not having to use a releasing agent. Each piece is screwed together so that it can be taken apart, therefore making […]
With the idea to make representations of large water droplets and failed so far to find a suitable item for the mould ‘plug’ that is droplet shaped, large enough and has a highly polished surface, I have decided to make […]
Well, my project this week was to use photos of the prints I made and blogged about for my last post to make an animation of the original image. I scanned them into my computer, and then set about creating […]
Reflecting on the times I am having now, it is clear to see that what I do need to do is organise and manage my days better, much better. Asking for help is hard. My newest updated was a little […]
Drawing of an empty Physalis pod (Pen and ink on card) The adoptee doesn’t have a choice so they have to find a voice… ‘Talking Over You’ There are so many facets and emotions I can relate to as an […]
Sometimes, it amazes me how easily connections are made. Yesterday, in the gallery, a guy asked if he could take a photo of the text of a particular work (as photography was not allowed of actual work) I said ‘Yes’.. and there […]
A condition of receiving my re:view bursary was to share my experience of the bursary with my peers, so when I was asked by the Bluemonkey artists network based at Towner, Eastbourne I had the perfect opportunity. It was also […]
Please detail any barriers you have faced, past or present, to achieving your creative aspirations. (max. 500 words) Me, you, them, words, forms, formats, geography, FAE, BMC! Barriers schmarriers, part and parcel of work, of life. Necessity is the mother […]
The programme for the sixth edition of the biennial festival Art Sheffield will include a number of site-specific installations and a focus on 1980s ‘scratch video’.
Practice.work done and work in progress
New Arrivals (2009) by Nicole Porter was a personal reflection on her own story as an adoptee growing up and demonstrates the unresolved feelings she has now as an adult. She cites artists like Annette Messager and Tracey Emin as […]
Arts Council England has awarded small capital grants to 39 organisations across the country, including to visual arts organisations Aspex, Spike Island, Pallant House Gallery and the Towner Trust.
Selecting colour whilst producing a narrative. Many would say and have said wouldn’t it be easier to create a narrative first? and then build on and around the narrative, and the answer is, Yes. In the video my aim is […]
The usual way to extract flax fibre is to grab a handful of stems and then bash them with a mallet. This releases the fibre which can then be combed to remove the unwanted stalk. This is the way a […]
The Design and Artists Copyright Society is marking ten years of the Artist’s Resale Right in the UK with the publication of a white paper containing key facts and figures about the scheme, which has so far distributed £47 million in royalties.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here BEWARE… ranting, sweeping statements and controversial opinions lurk in the text below: My involvement in arts education as a (sometimes loosely defined) teacher has taken a sort of scatter gun approach, but has taken in […]
