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“Well, I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel. You get on, you have to go to the end. And then somebody has the same opportunity to go to […]

I have been interested in objects as a witness to the past.  Passed through my family on my father’s side is a collection of ephemera.  Within the bag of ephemera there are a collection of large format negatives.  They are […]

I wanted to explore making drawings using tarnish from metal objects.  Silverpoint drawings have a beautiful, delicate quality to them, and also cannot be erased in the same way pencil can.  I decided to experiment with making basic marks onto […]

Whilst making work I have been thinking about the idea of spaces between things.  For example, cracks in old photographs/paintings/postcards/folds in paper. I have been thinking about destruction vs preservation, and deterioration as a result of time passing and traces […]

We visited Butley Mills Studios, Asylum Studios and Old Jet Studios  This allowed us to have an insight into the diverse works and processes used by Suffolk artists working closely together in shared studios. One of the highlights from the Butley […]

After researching Michael Landy’s Breakdown, primarily for my dissertation, I have become interested in unpicking everyday objects.  I found the processes Landy used to order, catalogue, destroy and document all of his possessions intriguing.  I especially was interested in how he kept […]

On 23rd September 2017 I visited the Tate Britain to see an exhibition of Rachel Whiteread’s work.  I have been interested in the processes behind the making of her works, particularly the way in which ordinary objects are cast and […]

I visited the public garden at St. Dunstan’s in the East, in London.  I am interested in the cycles of destruction and creation and the way in which ruins are in a state of tension- not existing fully as the […]

I have been thinking about the idea of palimpsests, with visible traces of earlier writing and layers scratched into the surface of a wax tablet. I find it interesting to think about the traces of history left visible on the […]

I decided that I wanted to explore the destruction and appropriation of everyday objects and work within a series.  I decided to use playing cards because they are something which I didn’t feel too precious about destroying and I was […]

After my research into using destruction as a method of creating art, I decided to play around with everyday materials.  I took so old magazines and altered these through ripping and building up layers and then stitching together as a […]

I took part in a collaborative project with other students called Tearing up the Past and this involved taking old coloured images primarily of religious artworks from art magazines and altering them to create a new image.  I experimented with […]

  Call for artists: Contribute to PhD research PhD Research Were you an early or mid-career artist practising in the UK in any of the following years: 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010? Payment: Single payment Experience required: Some Students eligible: No […]

Eastbourne-based writer Judith Alder reflects on the work of South Korean artist Kim Yong-Ik, in the sixth of eight pieces informed by seeing the artist’s exhibition, ‘I Believe My Works Are Still Valid’, at Spike Island, Bristol As young artists, we rush through […]

Bigger isn’t necessarily better. I’ve frequently gone off on one at students who think that development of a piece of work means doing it bigger. The same, just bigger. Why? What does this achieve? What does bigger say that smaller […]

Finland is well known for its vast stretches of forest and farmland broken up by some 187,888 lakes, the navigation of water through the land has over the year’s determined suitable areas for settlement and coincided with the development of […]