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Threads
The increasingly intense exploration of drawing, and the threads between words, sounds, music, lines…
The increasingly intense exploration of drawing, and the threads between words, sounds, music, lines…
What do you hope to explore or express? How do you want to feel while creating? By asking these questions, you create a framework for your practice that is both meaningful and transformative.
Short blog from Victoria Albuquerque about primary sources of inspiration.
The story of starting again
Do we start new things in January because we imagine its a clean slate, a step into a new position or is it because we have had time to reflect? Each year I look forward to what the other day, […]
Every month I enter the Boldbrush Art Contest. This blog shows my entries and the links to vote.
Thank you in advance for voting, each one makes such a difference :)
Charting the progress of my practice since 2007 – a-n’s longest running blog!
from feeling stationary and isolated – an experimental research project considering isolation through adulthood play.
Pictures at an Exhibition – how the outsider artist in me is making things harder than they need to be.
Crossing mediums – connecting the dots between painting, making and exhibiting.
Re-Wilding Practice: Art and Environmental Sustainability
Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not
The blog provides an insight into my initial exploration of Stoke-on-Trent, my responses to the environment and sense of place. The following Chapter of the blog sees the work that was initiated within the two weeks residency, come to some form of resolution.
Domestika had automatic access to my bank account
I’ve self funded the development and delivery of my Notts School Puppetry Workshops over the past 3 years. ACE rejected all x11 of my Arts Project Applications that included them. But I can’t afford to any more so we’re in hiatus. Shame.
On and off research from 2016- onwards.
On the River Crane and Northcote Nature Reserve
How on earth to continue a practice with no income??? Dealing with financial abuse and neglect.
This blog will explore themes of disability and sexual assault and how physical truama leads to disassociation from the body.
Sun printing, also known as cyanotype printing, is an innovative and eco-friendly photographic printing process that harnesses the power of the sun to create beautiful, blue-toned images. This technique, dating back to the 19th century, is cherished for its simplicity, […]
Cymraeg ⇒ I’ve just returned from an amazing trip to Amman, Jordan which was generously supported by Wales Arts International’s International Opportunities Fund. My video installation ‘INSULAE’ is currently showing at the Jordan National Gallery Of Fine Arts (JNGFA) as […]
English ⇒ Rwyf newydd ddychwelyd o daith anhygoel i Aman, Gwlad yr Iorddonen a gefnogwyd yn hael gan y Gronfa Cyfleoedd Rhyngwladol gan Gelfyddydau Rhyngwladol Cymru. Mae fy gosodiad fideo ‘INSULAE’ yn cael ei ddangos ar hyn o bryd yn […]
Latest group exhibition in exciting new location with FLUX
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Self Portrait in Gouache, From Mirror
Mixed media paintings using collage and palette-knife-applied acrylics