First Bristol meeting (3) TEXTS FOR THE AFTERLIFE While sketching the Assyrian Panels, I remembered a dream I had about my mother about a year after she had died. In her life, she always wore the Zoroastrian symbol around her […]
Second Trip to Bristol Museum (March) On the train up I read some of Lewis Hyde’s book ‘ The Gift; The Artist and Creativity in the Modern world’. It is the perfect book for my current ideas, and me and […]
Second Trip to Bristol Museum (2) Julia arranged a meeting with Sue Giles , the Ethnographic curator who gave us a Store tour . Based on the kind of objects I had expressed interest in, (divination objects, objects using text […]
Second Trip to Bristol Museum (3) The next day we met Kate Newnham – the Middle Eastern /Islamic curator, full of great references around gifting/text/textiles, among them – Darum Dolls – used by Buddhist monks in Japan, they bring good […]
I have had quite a week of decluttering, and have ended up with a large bag of clothes/ materials as well as a small bag of objects (which I will detail at some point) to begin my wrapping with. It […]
Methodology / Engagement ‘YOU ONLY POSSESS ANYTHING THAT WOULD NOT BE LOST IN A SHIPWRECK’ (Sufi Saying) We have started thinking of who I might be able to work with in a more small scale way through workshops on the […]
David Kay, Shape of Things Director, asked me to write something on the relationship of making to my practice and my feeling about not being a ‘proper maker’, as such..! ‘ Weaving was already multimedia: singing , chanting, telling stories, […]
The First Object Object number one (001) – my (late) mother’s mobile phone sim card, wrapped in red wool and black cotton thread. What this object means to me is : frequent , caring and inquisitive communication of a mother […]
The Gift So the interactive ‘operator’ in this new work is The Gift. Here are some thoughts I have found on The Gift while reading Lewis Hyde’ The Gift: Creativity and The Artist in the Modern World’. ‘The Gift is […]
half term. helpful. im lucky that the kids are older, otherwise id be really stuck. they are being entertained tomorrow so im planning to get the space and etching finished. didnt do it friday as studio manager wanted to oversee […]
Days till degree show – 3 Today seemed to be the day everything fell into place. Despite some grizzly tears at around 10am due to a dodgy transformer for our lights everything else seemed to fit into place, just at […]
Most days the knitting is a kind of meditative break in my day – it takes a little over half an hour and has its own rhythm. (The time has got a bit longer as the yarn has got harder […]
The pace is really hotting up and it is time to get the tools ready for fixing up work in the summer show. It has been a welcome relief to go to the Hay Literary Festival this week to listen […]
As the unstable chemicals gathered across the room some of us felt compelled to rub our eyes, but this child would not shed one tear. And when one tearful boy did finally look into the camera I felt moved enough […]
I have decided to knit covers for the breeze blocks that support the arches in the tunnel. I started of with knitting torn up duvet covers, but after some time I changed my mind and started all over using some […]
Well, i left it an extremely long time again before i posted a blog. Old habits dont die fast. So, the assesment was last wednesday, the external assesment on thursday (and i was chosen to be spoken to) and the […]
I thought I ought to share with you the writer, Lisa McGarry who I have made contact with and have started discussions and ideas for collaboration. I was hooked in when I discovered her way of seeing and articulating place […]
Wow, this has been really helpful. Ok, so I haven’t solved my financial problem, but the discussion and advice has been very valuable and much appreciated, the generosity of other artists and their desire to offer advice and support leaves […]
Gimps Hut Pearl, Hunter, wasp, shamen, uncle remus, bourgeoise
Thursday's critical framework sessions have ended until next year now so no more trips up to London on Thursdays. It would be so easy to let the time get eaten up by 'life' but Thursdays will be studio days now […]
I write with 20 and a half hours to go. Four O'Clock tomorrow sees the big deadline, the cutoff, the end of being a working student. I'm ready, providing the Blu-Ray disc has burnt overnight, and that I finish the […]
I am so touched by the generosity of fellow students coming to my help. I actually think there may be a chance of finishing now and can't thank them enough. Head banging, elbows throbbing, back aching….spirits lifted :)
I've just got home from a weekend at the Hay Festival and feeling inspired to do some writing. With limited time before bed, I'm torn between adding a post here, or doing some drawing. The blog wins, but mainly through […]
I'm starting this in the middle, not the beginning – mainly because I hadn't thought of blogging until I was well into the project. The piece is quite small – 31 stitches and 32 rows (meant to be 31 but […]
A cumulative performance in which I unravel and reknit the same small piece of knitting each day throughout May. I'm interested in how the yarn changes (frays, splits, crinkles) in the process, how that affects the making and the object […]
