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https://estebanpena.com/
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https://estebanpena.com/

After many hours in front of the black mirror, finally a version of a webpage organizing most of my art practice.

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Ways to love…

  7 live performances to camera …   within a certain time frame, and within a specific frame of space, new movement emerges… ways to love.. light grips my hands and I roll it around like clay…Like promises, like water perhaps… […]

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Headless

I did a sketch of my living room that’s emptied out, with a more detailed version of what I imagine tentacles to look like. I called it Headless because the tentacles are mostly hidden behind the door, and the viewer […]

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Printing in a lineage

I have now undertaken a session of 1:1 tuition with an expert printmaker, Martyn Grimmer, at Spike Island. While this is about a transmission of skills, I think I should also explain the embodied knowledge that was part of it […]

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Untitled blog post from ""

The more emotional baggage i put into my work, the more it means more to me when i look at them. Embedding autobiographic content is a good strategy for me artistically, but also as a method to vent, which in […]

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R&D and mentoring to develop a new artwork

The a-n Artist Bursary came at an ideal time for me during the period of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions. Enabling me to undertake extensive research and development for mentoring and to start developing a new artwork ‘Mirrored to the core […]

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Happy Places

I have spent a day screen printing onto South Bank Smooth Paper and onto mirrors. I calling the series, Happy Places, because the fragments of imagery are harvested from my previous drawings of places that were happy memories for me […]

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Mud and Thread

Documenting the creative collaboration between ceramic artist Gill Bliss and textile artist Joy Merron.

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a time to reflect

there was a period of time with this project where it did feel like it might not ever end.  it is now complete and i’m in a place where i can take a moment to look back over the project […]

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lost

yes – i feel lost at the moment. music on and back into the post.   i have to admit that since completing the museum project i’ve been catching up with the whole pandemic effect thing.  i miss contact with […]

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Bitmap images

  I’ve prepared a couple of images in bitmap, so I can screen print them onto mirrors tomorrow. The second image reminds me of Stephen King’s 1980 novella, The Mist because of the tentacles emerging from the other side of the […]

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