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Moving on…

I have been away from the blog and the studio for two weeks. I’ve moved house. This has been more exhausting than I had imagined: physically my joints are shot; mentally I have had days when I couldn’t string a […]

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Work and working from home

Every year as part of my annual appraisal at the council I have to fill in a separate form about my ’other employment’. Along with asking for basic information concerning my name, address, and job at the council the form […]

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Prototypes for metal/ceramic sculptures

I’ve created maquettes for  metal/ceramic sculptures on Adobe Illustrator because I’ve spent the first semester making metal sculptures. I didn’t want the work I’m producing now (drawings and sketches) to feel too cut off from the work in the first […]

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“There’s Comfort In Having A Shared Purpose.”

Walking People seem fed up at the moment. Unlike the previous lockdowns, this one doesn’t really have an end in sight. The days feel long but they’re flying by, restless nights lag with unused energy reserves from days spent inside. […]

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What is mail art?

what is mail art? a brief look at how I found mail art and what it means to me to be using mail art as an art practice.

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New Year New Collaboration

Working with new skills and a new collaborative partner for the new year, exploring questions that has arisen so far.

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Carbon Synthesis – Field notes and discoveries.

A window of opportunity in the weather this week meant I could take a couple of hours to wander and think. I was struck by my conversations with Anna the significance of investigating deep time in order to predict the […]

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Carbon Synthesis – Field notes and discoveries.

Spent a wonderful morning on the 22nd with Anna Keightley discussing her work and passion for the mosslands of greater Manchester. I am extremely grateful for her continued patience with my constant questions and limited understanding. Key things that we […]

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What I did for my a-n Artist Bursaries 2020 year

Here at last is my blog for the a-n Artist Bursaries 2020.The bursary was for me develop my soundart skills and practice. It is such a boost to get this kind of award enabling you to pay for courses, equipmen & mentoring and gives you a bit of ‘street cred’ with commissioners.

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Man in Isolation

only 5% of the planet has not been influenced in some way by humans and that is only because we can not reach it yet.

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Digital drawings

I’ve practiced sketching with a stylus pen pen on iPad, and I’m happy with the results. I had to change certain aspects of drawing digitally. The marks made on the iPad was the same darkness regardless of the pressure the […]

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Sell-off of Oor Wullie and The Broons screenprints

After a decade of making screenprints of Oor Wullie and The Broons, my licence from publisher DC Thomson ends in June.So … everything must go! This is the last chance to buy screenprints and cards which have graced the grand […]

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Reflection on Session #4 by Mirei Yazawa

The theme for this session was ‘Relationship between art and society’ and it was our last bursary supported session. It was led by Catherine Harrington and myself. We started by looking at images of artworks that have a focus on […]

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* 26/01/21 Interim Exhibition ‘Congruous’: Progress

I began to experiment for the group film which was much harder than originally anticipated. Jane mentioned I should explore a multiple range of areas in the kitchen to position the clay breasts/projector to find the better angles/positions for the camera/viewers. […]

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Sketches of reed diffusers

I’ve started sketching reed diffusers digitally and with pen on paper. It’s partly done using observation but I’ve changed some aspects of it. The wooden sticks flow out of the bottle in the same way hair does. I see that […]

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Islam Zaher: Passive Constructions

Islam Zaher is a painter whose work strongly references sculpture. The paintings in the show Passive Constructions are not pictures ‘of’ sculptures, but they reference sculptural forms and the materiality of objects in space

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Untitled blog post from "The Grid"

Lhergyrhenny’s Astrometric Grid stars Shine brightly across the Galactic Grid Walking along with my friends on a late summers afternoon We strolled oe’r bridge and mountain I climbed to the top of the radio mast Electricity flowed Some sort of […]

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