This week has seen the publication of a book I have been working on, with Verity Holloway and Boudicca Press, for nearly two years. Disturbing the Body is an anthology of women’s writing about their bodies – of times when […]
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Shared Visual Experiences and Thinking Through Art is the abbreviation for SVETTA Art Club for NHS staff working at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust. I have developed a new understanding of how creativity works for me. First of all, it […]
Amongst my recent life drawing explorations from the St Ives School of Painting was a session focusing on the Chiaroscuro technique. Chiaroscuro means light and shadow in Italian and is a classical technique that was used by Renaissance artists*. And […]
From my exploration of Sweet Tooth Colour, Jane questioned in my 1-1 last week, what would To Bite look like in black and white. I felt tempted to try this the night before I submitted for my group crit 24/03/21 and after […]
Bruce Nauman is an American Conceptual artist and works a lot with performance, neon lights and film. These are also the materials I have been known to work with. He approaches this materials very differently and I am mostly interested […]
Changes to my 2020 bursary plans.
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 […]
I’ve drawn some more drawings of pots (initially fish bowls) with stems coming out. On the Research in Practice module, I’ve started analysing colour of a sculpture Shani’s created. Along with the depictions of body parts (hands and eyes) within […]
The next idea I have for my work is to create a mural in my space in the studio at university. I look to fill the whole walls with paint and colour, like I did for ‘Transcend the Cube’ (2021) […]
I’ve been focusing on Research in Practice more than the studio work this week. There was feedback from last week was to bring forward the structure from Research and Practice and apply it to the studio work, which is unstructured […]
I have failed. Admitting it is both a relief and shock. I am not used to failing at things but in this case there is no getting around it. It is quite a spectacular fail too – so I feel […]
Shared Visual Experiences and Thinking Through Art is abbreviation for SVETTA Art Club for NHS staff working at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust Rushing along the project timeline keeps creative thinking at the sharp edge. Days are full of sketches, […]
After my feedback with Catinca 12/03/21, I projected To Bite first at uni in my studio 17/03/21, but they weren’t as successful due to the bright lighting. I used this as an experimentation, using the walls to create different perspective of the […]
For information on how to submit work for this month long miniature art exhibition across several dolls house galleries under the Small House Gallery banner planned for August, visit: https://www.a-n.co.uk/jobs/small-house-gallery-summer-open/
Abandoned fishing gear makes up most of the plastic pollution in some parts of the world’s oceans and seas, killing and injuring more than 100,000 whales, dolphins, seals, and turtles a year.
Four Generations, a single image. I gave three of my relatives the task to draw a nuffield tractor free hand. The youngest participant who was 7 gave no qualms and just got on withdrawing it to the best of her […]
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 […]
a) There are times when you are working on a “project” (funded or otherwise) when you wonder what the hell you are doing. b) There are times when you are working on a “project” (funded or otherwise) when you feel […]
nearing the completion of both the work in the museum and the non linear project, i’m sitting with an emerging sense of capturing the last throws of the building / recant phase – ahead of the opening. when i say […]
