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This will be my last post on the a-n site…symbolic of a shift from being a contemporary artist to a museum and heritage management student! I shall still be making work though – you can see this at www.charlottepratley.co.uk or […]
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Good news – I’m going to be doing a residency! The bad news is that it will be in an old factory with no hot water or shower…and it’s a live-in residency. It will be a great opportunity to test […]
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Today I’m determined to finish the article I started for Nottingham Visual Arts on Sunday’s 3 Events to Test Opinions in Lincoln but I’m struggling! I want my article to be witty and informed, but instead its sounding rambly and […]
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For a while now my failure in the blogging world has haunted me. I should be setting aside time every week to record my activites but the level of necessary commitment overwhelmed me and I decided, with the exception of […]
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Money seems to be my overriding thought at the moment…mainly the fact that I have none, severely limiting my thinking in a number of new and irritating ways. After talking to a friend, I decided I should at least measure […]
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Normally I'd say that a good day is the product of a good mood: the usual happenings happen but your mind chooses to remember the positive, framing the day better than others. The last few days, however, seem to have […]
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Yesterday I laid out all the unwanted items I had collected from various friends and colleagues to see how many I'd got and how much more I would need to fill a room. The short answer was: 25; lots more. […]
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This month seems to have been one of significant revelations, both in my practice and my career path. Spending a lot of time preparing for various interviews (of which none were successful!) has made me consider that perhaps I'm not […]
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After much uncertainty, our main focus for Beacon will now be Kelly Large's performative artwork in April; an event to highlight the tide of school children which floods Sleaford every weekday afternoon that she observed during her residency at Sleaford […]
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I've just come home from seeing the Cildo Meireles exhibition at the Tate Modern – it was incredible! Despite crowds to rival the toilets at Glastonbury the visceral influence of the artwork was still noticeable. With the exception of the […]
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Success! My website is back online! After a whole week of fiddling with settings I don't fully understand, it is finally working again! For all of 10 minutes I felt like I'd overcome my technical inabilities, until I realised that […]
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And so it seems that I only feel inspired to write this blog as a form of…I hesitate to use the word therapy here…avoiding the bitter cold of my studios isolates negative thoughts towards art that human contact dispels. I've […]