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Painting with Light

Painting with Light – A project about mental health in the midst of the pandemic.

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I Carry in Iron

This work consists of two cast iron grapefruit skins, thin and hollow. The skins, alongside resembling boobs, create vessular bowls when turned the other way. They respond to this idea of womblike holding and incubation with the feminine principle. Due […]

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Iron and Fertility

When I run a furnace I feel as though I can simulate the closest experience to birth as I may ever get. I can internalise a sense of motherhood. These works stem from my own connection to iron casting and aiding the furnace as a vessel.

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PROJECT OUTCOME – ABOUT THE SOUND 

Creating sound to include on my footage, was another fascinating curve of synchronicities. The April snowfall that was accidentally recorded was a never previously experienced weather anomaly that created an apocalyptic scene. Trees were already green, snow was falling heavily, road accidents were escalating, […]

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PP2: The Art Station

In June of 2017 the Art Station launched.  Initially it offered the local community of Saxmundum (Suffolk) free contemporary art education programmes. This year (2020) the Art Station acquired a new premises, the first floor of what was previously the […]

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Potential?

  A workmate found this gri whilst doing a spot of magnet fishing. Unfortunately she ‘chucked it.’

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PROJECT OUTCOME – ABOUT THE IMAGE

I made a few shoots in my studio to practice on and allow some distancing from the original project. It is so much easier to get things right in such a controlled environment with consistent lighting and a steady camera. At the same time, I kept on returning to […]

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Like London busses …

Guess what arrived this afternoon – YES, several kilos, maybe as much as half my body weight, of glitter! I am so glad that it didn’t get caught up in either the temporary suspension of freight travel between the UK […]

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* 22/12/20: Baking, Martha Rosler and experimentation

Reflection 23/02/21: I decided to take this series of work as experimentation for Are You Watching? for Congruous. I felt they were boring and something was missing in these. I have realised projection is my medium that I work well with and with […]

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THE MAGIC OF INTERDISCIPLINARY EXCHANGES

Reflection on Session #2 by Jimena Mendizábal de Moral Our study group is composed of a wide range of practices within the art world. We are all art agents yet we are testaments of the diversity that make up the […]

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2020 – How was it for you? #6: Ed Compson, artist and activist

Royal College of Art graduate discusses campaigning during the final year of his MA, and going from RCA painting student rep to supporting with Pause or Pay UK – from the backroom of a café in Cyprus, where he has spent two months tracing his family and find his grandfather’s birth certificate.

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2020 – How was it for you? #3: Ainslie Roddick, Artistic Director/ CEO of ATLAS Arts

The Glasgow-born curator, who was appointed the new Artistic Director and CEO of ATLAS Arts last year, discusses her experience of the past 12 months, including finding new ways to reach out to communities over the lockdown period and how working together with her colleagues to adapt to the unpredictable scenario of the COVID pandemic has taught her the value of collaboration, resilience and taking things slow.

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Drawings that die.

I’ve killed a drawing that I’ve been working on for years. This sort of thing happens a lot with me. Here is a short video about this drawing (click the link below to my youtube video to watch a short […]

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