The opening night was quite an event. Enver Gursev, an artist at our studios is a musician as well as an artist and he organised some great music and a performance piece. Two ladies, Luci Boccino and Denise Heinrich-lane http://www.myspace.com/ledonnedonnedonne […]
My head is feeling much more together this week. Finally I feel like I have relaxed a little. We part time students arranged our own crit on Friday so that we could finally get more familiar with each others’ work […]
Interesting meeting with Rachael, the pinhole camera device she had made gave a very ghostly image, but one that was full of delicate mood. We have decided to continue with the natural develop of the project, see where it leads […]
I’ve been having to write my entries in notepad this weekend, because I can’t seem to concentrate for more than two minutes at a time. Got lots of reading/writing to do and none of it is coming very easily. I […]
The man wore a beige SAS beret and 21 military medals and badges, including the Military Cross, as he walked alongside 600 genuine war heroes. He had medals from campaigns including the Second World War, Korea, the Falklands, awards for […]
Dear Colleagues, Barry Sewell has had left on his desk (which is opposite the stationery cabinet in North cluster) a set of keys. The keys are on a SNC chain and consist of 3 gold keys. If you believe they […]
An artist friend came to see the project in progress the other day, we had a good conversation about where the emotion in the painting came through in the technique, I had been working on the idea of autumn leaves […]
It’s never good to start a blog entry with 10 minutes to go till school pick up but here goes with an attempt to fill in the gaps on my last day in Glasgow. This turned out to be Edinburgh […]
ART: Have committed to drawing for 30 minutes per day in an attempt to refresh my skills in this area. I hope this time I can keep it up! I’ve been shading recently. Will try and post some examples and […]
3D Project Presentation – On Display 1 I found this already build cabinet and loved the space. It reminded me of a house/ a home. This as a concept is an obsession with me. Having such a mixed background – […]
3D Project Presentation – On Display – 2 There are number of different objects and articles ‘on display’ which are related to or represent my personalities, characters and identities. Some you can clearly see through the windows, some are hidden. […]
3D Project Presentation – On Display 3 For this project I was influenced by the work of Sophie Calle, especially her The Birthday Ceremony Calle is fascinated by the interface between our public lives and our private selves. Calle is […]
This afternoon I drew the tip of my pencil with itself and the nib of my biro with itself. I drew them in my line drawing book, which makes them the first traditionally representational drawings on its pages. They continue […]
Project Brief – 3 – Outside In For a number of weeks we were asked to explore the self, in particular our personality. The intention was to select small objects which would abstractly reflect the true self. With this in […]
When I was growing up in Liverpool in the 60’s, my mother had a lot of sayings. A favourite saying of hers was ‘it would be lovely with an onion’. That just meant that it was so gorgeous she could […]
The short cut…..or maybe not. An eventful dog walk which started by going down onto the beach at Reculver. Its the stone horse beach where the animals are created and Cosmo has just legged it up from the beach to […]
