A Private Land Art Lab
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Archive
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Venue:
The MUSE -
From:
October 28, 2023 -
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October 29, 2023 -
Location:
Wales
I took a chance and shared a vision. I took a chance and trusted the process I took a chance and believed in myself. The result was being awarded an a-n Artists Bursaries 2022-23. And I am well pleased and […]
Freelance Research – University of Warwick & Culture Central Partnership
Supermarket My head is spinning with so many thoughts … thoughts that are closely related to being at the fair, and those that have a less direct connection but have been sparkled by something that I have seen, heard, or […]
R&D visit to the home of the internet
A place to share the knowledge I am learning through and within my creative practice.
Research Project for final project for my MFA at Nottingham Trent University
When learning botanical illustration, my first (and main) port of call is researching the works of other illustrators and attempting to emulate the detail and precision that they achieve in their works. This is a very different way of studying […]
For my final degree project, I have embarked on a very lengthy and involved process of creating an engaging and interesting resource about the most endangered plants in the world. As a climate activist, I talk about the human cost […]
It has been a while since I have blogged, mainly because I have been focusing on finishing my final dissertation for my Masters followed by a certain amount of flummoxing about with family commitments mixed with needing to not do […]
hi nick wow ! what a few weeks it’s been – the what next summit has taken me to places that i probably wouldn’t have experienced without it. now as the virtual dust settles i’m going to take a moment to […]
Since my last blog a lot has happened. 2021 has begun, I’ve had a little girl, we are in our third lockdown and we’re experiencing COVID variants. Having a daughter is a lot harder than I thought, I imagined I […]
the view from the dining room table today is one of calm trees and clear blue sky, the frost on the roofs slowly disappearing from view as the sun slowly transits out of sight. my view is accompanied by the […]
My a-n bursary was for building contacts in the prison service to develop a new idea for working collaboratively on an exhibition commission with prisoners. What a year it turned out to be for learning about the arts in a difficult to access sector.
when all my thoughts combine to create no way forward i know it’s time to curl up on the sofa for a few hours and hide under a blanket. now having done that i can continue to try to reflect […]
Further responses to a mini project I set myself looking at Mental illness. In this I wanted to respond to the word Depression. There is a thin line between manic and happy. This is originally a still from the Film, […]
After what has felt a very long time I am back at Central Saint Martins to do the second part of my MRES Art: Theory and Philosophy course. This academic year is all about the final project – a 15000 […]
sitting with an unsettled feeling following a recent interview i return to this space to collect and reflect about recent times. there’s been a workshop/discussion around compassion and family in isolation and all that comes with that. the interview was […]
something that is regularly discussed in our house is gender – the language of it and the pronouns of it. until yesterday it had happened around me and i’d been taking part in the discussion yet not fully engaged with […]
after 5 months of the most strangest time, i’m preparing for another arts and heritage volunteers met to share, discuss and catch up with the three artist commissions that will be permanently installed in the museum of making. in those […]
time to make some reflective contribution to my blog. it’s thursday morning, there’s four us in the house. we’re all waiting on the results of a covid test made on tuesday. one of us had the test. since the test […]