Decided to give the palette knife a rest and try something a bit different today! I attended an online life drawing class run by the St Ives School of Painting, tutored by Alice Mumford. The session was inspired by Georges Seurat’s Bathers at […]
I am UK artist based in London and most of my art sales / exhibitions have been in the EU over the past 10 years. Now whether agree / disagree with Brexit , its happened and is pretty much seems […]
I have made the first move in finding out about studios in Uppsala. This is a big thing for me, I can be stupidly loyal at times and even enquiring about the upcoming studios makes me feel as though I […]
Sitting pretty in the oncoming dusk. That’s me in the turquoise over there, with blossoms tumbling over my brow and a welcoming glow through the windows. My neighbours call me the girl with the kaleidoscope eyes. I just love being […]
For this blog I want to analyse the artist Sophie Tea’s website – it’s exciting, bright and draws you in. Tea has used her online presence to grow her artwork and discussion with her audience. See below, her opening page […]
‘It took me a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to remain silent.’ Madeleine Albright, American politician I may not agree with Madeleine Albright on everything, but I love the […]
For my first post I will be looking at the website of artist Graham Crowley. We had an Artists Talk with him this week in which we saw his work first hand, and so it was good to also look […]
This blog is for my Professional Practice 2 module, in which I will be reviewing and analysing the social media accounts/blogs of various artists and galleries.
‘Matriarchal consciousness, or the awareness of the world from the mothers point of view, proceeds from a state of pregnancy or total intersubjectivity.’ (Hall, 1980: 88). Motherhood is a social construct. It is a state of understanding something from a […]
We gained Arts Council Funding.
This is a place where you can breathe. Really, properly, full lungs breathing. Take your time in meandering through the foliage and then wander in, find nearly the same amount of flowers inside and simply breathe. Now don’t you feel […]
A winter online Open Exhibition; keeping a small gallery and artist studios alive through lockdown times.
I’m designing a book that’s an extension of my practice. The title is Organic Matter and Decay because the feedback from the self-directed crit the other day was that the drawings referred to reclaimed and found things which says to […]
Lockdown and Light is a virtual exhibition that took place during the first lockdown of 2020 in the summer. It’s an Instagram based gallery which showcases a range of artists and their different temporary light installations which are made in […]
From my group crit 29/01/21, following the feedback I got back into filming details, close ups and photographing areas to include in editing the final cut for the exhibition. See few examples below. I tried to take these images in […]
For my first blog I am to analyse Empty Easel’s website. It’s an unappealing, monochrome and masculine opening page on laptop, doesn’t feel like there is a target audience. This possible works to encourage all sexes/ages to become an artist. See below, […]
Cosily sipping tea and slathering clotted cream on fruit scones, I’m contentedly idling underneath one of these historic arches. My blooms have extended far beyond my stone confines and frame me beautifully. Soft petals brush my face and ruffle mildly […]
Dark times, indeed. Or more like grey-ish in my case. Despite being fit (at the moment, fingers crossed), having enough to eat and being otherwise secure I have found it impossible to do much meaningful work since the summer. But, […]
This blog is for my Professional Practice 2 module where I’ll be analysing and researching artists’ websites and their social media presence e.g Instagram, in response to help grow my professional engagement in the art world and my professional presence on social media.
An Arts Council England supported project seeking to engage a broad national and international audience in discussions around heritage, migration and interconnectedness
20-01-21 To walk or latte? Arranged to all make turmeric lattes to sit and chat. One of us remembered, tea will do fine. Thinking of walking in city scape – both port cities Southampton and Rotterdam are connected in stories? […]
Extracts from our conversation presented as a stream of consciousness. The two accompanying images depict public placements of some of the text extracts. Three is the magic number so they say. Where’s my pen. Where’s my tea. How does […]
As you might be aware of from previous posts, after our third meeting in November we’ve decided to divide into 4 sub-groups of interest to focus on specific aspects of our broad research. We will now be introducing the contents […]
