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* 19/04/21: Printing progress

After discussing my first prints for the Riso with Srin last week, I wanted to get more hands on e.g. think about layering, the formation of colours and possibly text. I created these stencils with no bitmap to play around […]

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Progress

Stop, start, stop, start, hesitate, consider, wonder, decide, change, update, progress. That could describe this past year with pandemic lockdowns and it has been stressful. However, due to the a-n Artists Bursary and Arts Council of Wales National Lottery Good […]

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Fourteen today!

I continue to turn up at the studio, and today it was nice to not know what I would be doing before I got there. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that I was not already thinking about […]

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To celebrate – Clore Fellowship 12 months on

To celebrate is to commemorate, observe, honour, mark, salute, recognise, acknowledge. For some, celebrating is easy, as if shouting loud about achievements is ingrained. For others it is a quieter process, more understated, or may not happen at all. But […]

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visiting the site

i’ve visited the silk mill site this week – at the invitation of the museum trust’s site manager.  we spent an hour walking round. here are a few of my highlights from the visit.       a leftover question […]

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Retrospect

I’ve been re reading my initial blogs on a-n. Trying to discover some progress, development in my thoughts and achievements in art and life. Some aspects remain constant – lack of self-belief both in life and my art but there […]

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Moving Forward

So I know I only wrote yesterday and no one is probably reading this anyway but I have also decided to use this new blog as a way of reminding myself that I am actually doing stuff to move things […]

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waking up with a cold

this morning my sore throat woke me, i sighed and sniffed and realised that i am once again with cold.  undeterred i did my chores this morning in an attempt to carry on as normal. today does feel normal.   […]

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Happy birthday …

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear blog, Happy birthday to you!   10 years old today! DOUBLE figures, a whole decade behind me – wow! And who knows what lies ahead, I certainly could not […]

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Clearer vision

After the bursary year of questioning, challenging and explaining my practice I feel more informed and focused with a clearer vision of the direction I want my work to take. It has been so beneficial to hear directly from experienced […]

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working the shells

from the hi hat and snare i start to build in practice development by extending into the tom toms.

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Reflection, development and future plans

This year has been wonderful for personal development, business progress with BloomInArt, funding applications, collaborations and involvement within the local community. I struggle to blog but I have attached a few images to visually tell the story of my development […]

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CAD and 3D Printing

  I ain’t no blogger it turns out. I do sketch and I scribble thoughts and this is what I wanted to transform into forms which I can not create by hand! I want to create casts within casts, writing […]

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What are we trying to find out?

Val came up to the studio yesterday and we spent some time reacquainting ourselves with the project after the summer break. I have used the last couple of months to work up ideas based on visuals from the case study […]

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Kirsty Harris, experimental studio residency
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Experimental Studio Residency

Charting my progress on the 10 week long residency in Newcastle hosted by Vane Gallery and Breeze Creatives. Supported by the Arts Council England.

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