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BREXscapism

Escape is on my mind. This week the UK government are trying to push through a disgusting Brexit deal, while the British music industry simultaneously wheels out The Spice Girls for a bit of Christmas ‘girl-power’ nostalgia. The perfect distraction. […]

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Skyladika or dog people

On Thursday 1 November we opened ‘PooR Life by dog people’ at Transition Two Gallery in London. The show is developed through our mutual interests in fandom, poor copies and amateur-expertise: “Their interest in the confluence between avant-garde and mainstream culture […]

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‘8 Poor Copies’ by Owen G. Parry (excerpts)

‘PooR Life by dog people’, opens next week at Transition Two Gallery, London. (Opens 1st November 2018) show runs 2nd – 25th Nov: https://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/Transitiontwo/Poor_Life_by_Dog_People.html ‘8 Poor Copies’ was written in response to Beth Emily Richards’ show ‘Poor Copy‘ at Northern Charter […]

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Fascinating Fandoms!

I met Beth Emily Richards at a Theatre Fandom conference in Bristol last Summer. We had already been in contact with each other over our mutual fascination with fandom as a nerdy participatory network, amateur expertise and subversive world-making practice. […]

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Dungeon Crawling 2: Open the Caves!

The bursary I received from a-n was for experimenting with bringing ideas around game-journeying and space-making into my practice, particularly through learning how to render a digital space in 3D. In my last blog post I wrote about the research […]

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Pulling it all together!

This is a bit of a stock take of what I’ve achieved over the past 8 months. I’ve not only made a massive step forward in gaining Max MSP programming knowledge and created a system which includes light, glass, and […]

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British Council funded trip to Thailand

After many years of working on ‘N scale’ and navigating the complex ethical questions of my relationship to the fire at the Kader factories in Bangkok that forms its core, I finally made the decision to travel to Thailand to […]

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Transmission is launched

As part of my a-n bursary research into setting up a radio platform in Digbeth (Birmingham) the two-week pilot for TRANSMISSION went live on 7 Dec with a launch event at A3 Project Space and runs from 21 December 2018. […]

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Tagtool Test 1

https://vimeo.com/306842676 After a lot of experimentation with different software and hardware solutions, I settled on using the app Tagtool for the iPad. Tagtool transforms illustrations into digital puppets and then using some simple tools animates them. I was introduced to […]

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Now Showing #275: The week’s top exhibitions

Five recommended shows from across the UK, including: a group show exploring socio-political turmoil at Bo-Lee Gallery, London, Siobhán Hapaska’s sculpture at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and Lucy Orta’s collaborative banners at Medicine in Birmingham.

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Flux

Forest Fields and Hyson Green is an area of constant revitalisation, rejuvenation and flux. It is a starting point for some and a constant home for others. People come and go regularly, setting up homes and businesses then move on […]

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Looking for a new pattern.

After spending a week researching Ethnographic Museum in Krakow  archive I went for a residency in University of Folk Art and Craft, located in Wola Sekowa – remote village South East of Poland. During my residency time there were ceramic […]

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Ethnographic Museum Archives

In May 2018, in support of a-n 2018 Bursary,  I visited Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, Poland archives. I been mostly interested in researching these materials that are regarding love (love letters and songs) and women rituals, I also focused on […]

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Welding, Fettling, Chasing

Reassembling  – once the bronze was cleaned the next job was to grind off the spru’s and any inwanted bronze left over from the casting stages. The joinging edges of seperate pieces of the bronze were smoothed and bevelled slightly. […]

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