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Creating Wallpaper

My first rough attempt of making my own wallpaper. I have narrowed it down to two designs that i want to put my own images on top of. This first image is the basic strip of collage images that i […]

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Looking for a Pattern

I’ve been looking for patterns and designs to create a wallpaper from. I have an idea in my head for the degree show, i want to create a Victorian style wallpaper with an old fashioned style print, then super impose […]

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Getting Started

I thought i would take a break from the dolls house and get started on my mirror. First things first i cut the hard plastic edging off the face and stuck it with PVA glue. I have been saving up […]

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Taking So Long

Top floor is done but I am beginning to regret taking this on, at least without the time constraints that I have. Not quite halfway through the bottom floor, I’m really starting to worry that it won’t be finished on […]

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Trying to Cheat ;-)

I thought I would try and make my life a little bit easier and photographed some of the eyes I had already cut out of magazines, then printed them off in a range of different sizes. I photocopied a few […]

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Strips

By having all four strips that i had edited up together, I could see them as a repeating pattern going down a wall, it would make a bright, standout wallpaper. I want to design one for my final show but […]

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Value

Value is a term in the visual arts that refers to the varying degree of lightness and darkness in a drawing, film or other art form. But it can also refer to the perceived artistic merit of work. These refer […]

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A woman

Stitch and decoration are a symbol of pain and the dilemma of being a woman.  

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PERCEPT

So as my last post hinted, we recently launched our first show in the new space. Examines materiality and the affect different materials and stimuli can have on our senses, whether this be positive or negative. It features the work […]

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Untitled blog post from "Karart Blog"

Now I have decided and hung the final pieces for the degree show I can investigate how to display the paintings on the acetate sheets. I wanted to use light boxes but one of those went phut! so I am […]

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P is for Pac Man (Manny Pacquiao)

P is for Pac Man (Manny Pacquiao), A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports B. 1978 /Manny Pacquiao is more than a boxer. For the Filipino people, Pacquiao is the unofficial patron saint of the Philippines. Fondly referred to as Pac Man by […]

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Untitled blog post from "Keeping It Going"

Sometimes the work you think you’re going to make when you get to the studio and what you actually make are two very different things. Wednesday’s studio session was a classic example of this. I produced something totally unexpected, the […]

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Studio Space

This is my studio space at the ,moment, it is full of my experimental ideas and enlargements of the collages i have done in my sketch books. I like to play with the effects of changing the colours and sizes […]

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Digital Editing

I’ve started playing around with digital editing, using Pixlr app on my phone and iPad and laptop, i don’t have Photoshop and find it quite complicated to use, whereas Pixlr is more user friendly and i suppose a bit dumbed […]

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Research Working practice

Paying Artists consultation report 2015

Summary of the first sector consultations that took place as part of the Paying Artists campaign on the issue of paying artists who exhibit in publicly-funded galleries.

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Revelations: Experiments in Photography

The connections between art and science are always an interesting subject to explore. Added to this, the fact that this is an ‘art’ exhibition at the Science Museum, not an obvious venue for such a show, means that Revelations: Experiments […]

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Dorine Van Meel: Between the Dog and the Wolf

Dorine Van Meel’s exhibition at the South London Gallery considers dualities or dual natures. The intriguing subtitle, ‘Between the Dog and the Wolf’, refers to a French expression, ‘entre le chien et le loup’, which describes twilight, which is neither […]

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