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Dawn Cole

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Red turkey twill

by Dawn Cole

All 100 pillowcases are now cast and waiting to be sanded and finished later this month. However, my research has continued and uncovered some very interesting pieces of information amongst the archive. Some years ago when I first began looking […]

12 July 18
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A relevant metaphor – Pillowcases part 2

by Dawn Cole

My studio is currently a hive of activity; a great relief after the cold weather making it difficult to work in there. One end is covered in piles of neatly, and some not so neatly, folded pillow cases. the piles […]

01 May 18
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Pillow cases part 1

by Dawn Cole

Yesterday I thought I was going to write about pillowcases but somehow that didn’t happen and I ended up writing about how I came to the point at which I decided the direction my work was going to take. So […]

25 April 18
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Thank you Christian Boltanski

by Dawn Cole

Now the weather has warmed up I seem to be working on numerous projects at the same time trying to catch up. There also seems to be a surge in activity in general following the Easter break. This is all […]

24 April 18
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vying for attention and shouting ‘me! me!’

by Dawn Cole

  This post is shared from my other blog over on WordPress but is relevant here too.   I have only written 4 blog posts on here in the past year. it seems a poor effort but in my defence […]

21 March 18
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Testing ideas

by Dawn Cole

  To date there are 3 things which to me have struck a chord during my residency: The gossamer thin flags that are displayed in the Buff’s Chapel The images from Dane John VAD Hospital and the fracturing of identity […]

09 March 18
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Red, white, black and purple

by Dawn Cole

I haven’t written any blog posts for a while. Not just on here but also on my main blog. When I started this residency I wasn’t sure where it would lead me, but that is what is the exciting thing […]

27 February 18
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How the book was made

by Dawn Cole

I promised in my last blog post to share the process of making the book ‘I am not Jasper Phillimore’ so here goes. The initial images were taken from digital photographs of the originals. These were turned in to half […]

12 December 17
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Finishing the book

by Dawn Cole

  Last week I managed to complete the book ‘I am not Jasper Phillimore’ in time for Canterbury Cathedral Open Day where it was shown for the first time. The finished book is much smaller in scale than my original […]

27 September 17
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I am not Jasper Phillimore

by Dawn Cole

I have been in my studio beginning to experiment with ideas that have begun to form in response to my initial research in the archives. Since I began working with archives the on constant experience is that the archives can […]

04 September 17
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A shocking realisation after constant looking

by Dawn Cole

I have been trying out a different approach to researching in the archives. Rather than spending my time reading and studying at the Cathedral I have been photographing the items and then reading and studying them at home and in […]

15 August 17
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Fracturing of Identity

by Dawn Cole

Following on from my visit to the archives last week I have been spending time in my studio looking through the Admissions and Discharge Book for Dane John VAD Hospital. The book records 101 wounded men from 1916 -1918 and […]

25 July 17
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