A blog documenting my thought process and work throughout my last year at University of Suffolk, studying for my BA Fine Art. The focus of my work being on culture, identity and printing.
Figure XVII Figure XVIII Once I had used the clay sleeping baby for the purpose of taking a mould, I was going to discard the clay. However, there was something about the […]
In the piece Male and Female Genital Wallpaper (1989) (see Fig II) Gober uses, sketched parts of the human body in a repeating pattern. This combination of intimate areas, presented on a ‘household’ canvas, opens up a dialogue between the […]
The most exciting part for me before entering the performance was to experience something live and up close and personal; this is exactly what ‘Smash It Up’ provided. In May 2013, the mural, representing the Chartist movement in Newport in […]
I have been completely inactive on this blog since returning to the studio after the Aarhus exhibition. This is down to a couple of things: first a holiday with the family after the show, then after returning to the studio, […]
Last Friday I attended the second day of the ‘2-Day Conversation’ organised by the New Bridge Project in Newcastle for their 5th anniversary. (For those who do not know about this organisation it is an artist hub created by two […]
A series of open, online discussions will soon allow the public to feed into a new government white paper which will be published in late 2015 or early 2016. Arts Professional’s Frances Richens reports.
An app at the cultural heart of Plymouth
I found The Tee Sharps busking in Newcastle town centre, beautiful voices, especially when they harmonise, and a little more rare to see girls busking, (only really just realised that) The busking scene is amazing here, every corner you turn […]
Notes on art and life from a Londoner living in Copenhagen.
A short blog this week after last week’s tirade. The emperor has found his clothes at the George Chakravarthi exhibition presently being held at the Vane/Globe gallery, in Newcastle. After all I said last week this show makes me eat […]
This film has shocked me to the core, i knew politicians did not tell us the full story but this film exposes the trueth behind many a headline. It is a must watch for anyone interested in politics, society or […]
” The displacement of anthropocentrism and recognition of transspecies solidarity are based on the awareness of ‘our’ being in this together; that is to say, environmentally based, embodied, and embedded, in symbiosis with each other. Bio-centered egalitarianism is a philosophy […]
