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New Designers London 2018
Yesterday myself and 3 other sculptors were asked to be a part of this year’s Coleg sir gar’s stand at New Designers 2018 along with the college’s ceramicists. The ceramicists did all of the fundraising to pay for the stand so we’re […]
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First blog entry of a new artist
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Urban Decay and Abandonment
I’m currently looking into urban decay and abandonment, the process of a changing urban world and the feelings of dystopia contrasted with the possibility of renewal. I’m giving consideration to imagery that portrays both a sense of place and of change.
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Another Walk With Cosmo
If one year equals 7 dog years; Me and Cosmo embarked on our middle age together, and I looked to him for inspiration for a new body of work!
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Airbridge – an Artist’s year at Tower Bridge
This blog shares my experiences as the inaugural Artist in Residence at Tower Bridge throughout 2017. As the residency ends, I reflect upon the year long development of my multidisciplinary practice.
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Bulb experiments
Recently I’ve been exploring making domestic objects useless as their intended purpose. I’ve had lots of fun with the project so far and I still have more work to come, but this has been a new way of working for […]
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What Is Light?
Presented at the ‘What Is? Collective’ event, Heads Up Festival, Hull, March 2018.
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Talking to the Trees
Following an artist-led community engagement intervention on the Trees Estate, Preston
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Making objects useless
I’m slowly figuring out what exactly it is that I want to convey through my work. I’m finding it difficult because I work quite intuitively with materials, so I tend to reflect on what it is I’m trying to say […]
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Can Creating a Gallery be a Political Act?
Reflecting on the experience of opening a gallery in an area simultaneously denigrated, marred and celebrated for its unique political history,
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Figuring out display
Something I’ve been really considering with my work this term is how to display pieces. My degree show is coming up really fast and it’s forcing me to consider different ways to display my work. For this piece in particular […]
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NOT DEAD YET
XSexcentenary appearing at Glasgow International 2018. Register for our events, make alternative mourning clothes, be part of the Necropolis procession and more……
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BINOCULAR
Professional Development Bursary 2016
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Oil painting of foil on window
Study of foil placed on window- exploring it’s colour and reflections, studying the way in which it can be transformed as a material.
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2nd Year through to 3rd Professional Practice
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I don’t want a boyfriend I just want to book bind.
This body of work explores the collaborative relationship between Emily Hartless and Anna Rogers.
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Influenced by Sonja Baumel
A project I have planned coming soon, using petri dishes, was influenced by Sonja Baumel’s work where she lays her body into a large petri dish (acting like the canvas) and lets the bacteria from her body grow (acting like […]
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Hair is a strange material to work with
I really enjoy working with organic materials in my practice. There’s something almost quite wrong about it, as though I’m breaking some kind of rule or something. Hair is something I’ve found myself working with this year. This is one […]
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Visiting artists, my father Prometheus and why I use his art in my work
In my adolescence, I visited the artist, my father, in his London flat. There was a room designated for the studio; I could not smell turps or white spirit; I could not see a Francis Bacon tsunami licking the prosaic […]
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Cotton bud experiments
I’m currently in the last term of university at Carmarthen School of Art, and this term I’ve been focusing on working with domestic, every day objects. My aim is to experiment with them and try to make them useless in […]
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Materials of Place
During 2018 to July 2019 I am one of ten artists working as part of a project, ‘Surrey Unearthed’ across the Surrey Hills. I am an artist and papermaker and work by walking, collecting, interacting with people and making.
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RD1st Coaching Course (Summer 2017)
Reflections on what turned out to be rather life altering.
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caryl beach- new direction
Observing and recording the everyday, the landscape changing constantly, my journeys through each day present new experiences for me to note and capture: moving images; macro images; moments in time. All inspiring me to reiterate through my work, using video, […]
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Rd1st Coaching – Thank you
Thank you to RD1st for delivering such amazing training and enabling a supportive network to thrive afterwards. Thank you to A-n for offering the training and enabling me to take part in such a life changing experience – I wish […]
