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Starting Back!!

Getting back to business in the studio after the Covid lockdown was a triumph! although the primer did need a really good stir!

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Fran Duggan Art

This is a personal journey through my years at The University of Bolton studying Fine Art…The if’s, what’s, and the Attempts… The Homework and the Studio processes, my tiny biosphere of stuff n’ that.

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First outing for screenprints

I have 5 screenprints in my current show at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. On until the 24th October – you can visit online if you can’t get there in person – www.openeyegallery.co.uk I first tried printmaking a few […]

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Pecha Kucha

I did a presentation where I looked at what work had previously done as well as what I was working on and where I am thinking of taking my work. By doing presentations I find that I’m able to see […]

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Le monde au temps des surréalistes

I was looking through photos of galleries I’ve been to and came across a a photo of a map at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 2015; which might be relevant to my research into rubbings and psychogeography. This is […]

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worries and walks

I seem to be on a ride I can’t get off at the moment. I obsess about my age. While anybody would scoff and say I’m young, at 31 I don’t have a home, a reliable income, a baby, or […]

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Introducing the group

We are a group of 9 from different backgrounds and experiences. Group members: Bettina Fung (main organiser of the study group) A visual artist based in London, interested in incorporating drawing into live art. Themes of ritual, futility, purposelessness, notions […]

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Socially Awkward

Lady Kitt and Dan Russell’s Artists Make Change Peer Learning Group for the North East of England.

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I Stole a Book From Agnès Varda

Why do we want to keep mementos of the dead? Shortly after filmmaker Agnès Varda died, I went to Paris to learn from her life — and take a piece of it home with me.

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Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Notes

Cold War Steve: Benny’s Babbies Work is placed in 18th 19th century art Contemporary politics juxtaposed with historic works Disrupt the museum’s established collection Looking for slippage in a traditional sense of space Humour in a serious context Framed traditionally […]

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Art/Activism: The Peer-led Research Group

We are a group of artists, curators and arts educators, where the majority are members of  Young Blood Initiative, an international community of artists that aims to explore other ways to create and collaborate. We have set up this study […]

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The curators I’m researching

Angela Kingston She uses a lateral process in curating 3am: Wonder, Paranoia and the restless night (2013), making the exhibition poetic as well as factual. There’s a chapter in the catalogue on how she went about curating the exhibition – […]

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Under New Management (Local&&Ledger series)

Qs: How do we get connected to the local council budgeting process? How do public budgets work? When does fiscal year start (4-5 months before that budgets are being proposed)? What is power structure/dynamics in a local council? Who are […]

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M180 – Works in progress

I take a left off at Great Coates Interchange, the last exit prior to downtown Grimsby, glancing at my rear view as I ease along the slip lane. I drift by a couple of roundabouts, pulling over at the non-road […]

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Validation…

Validation… Why do we need it? I’m always happy working in the studio, either on my own in the building at whatever time of day or night, or if my fellow artists are bustling about. I’m not always happy with […]

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Positive Results from Negative Painting

Over the past few years I have focussed on negative painting as I find that this approach really allows the vibrancy of transparent layers of paint to shine out of the painting.

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Demons by Herati
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Demons by Herati

An outstanding classical siyah qalam drawing (soot and brush) on paper by 16th Century artist Muhammad Herati.

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