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Final Installation of Work
Above are the final images of the degree project installation for the Endangered Plant Index. This installation took a lot of work and calculations to get right – including having to take a lot of the drawings and labels off the wall, […]
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Rewritten Proposal
This proposal is the one that I have rewritten both after the crit and examining Agnes Denes’ proposals further. I have attempted to follow the same format as Denes’ used in her proposal (see previous post), whilst also keeping it […]
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My Changing Role as an Artist
Over the three years of degree – and particularly these past two – my role and practice as an artist has changed enormously, and in this post, I want to examine how and why it has, and how it will […]
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Rethinking the Rewilding Area
Update: 08/06/22: I also added the ‘wildflowers’ book open on the desk, at the page of the Ragged Robin, which is one of the wildflowers listed on the seed pack, that I hope to use in the rewilding of Cedarwood Walk. […]
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Alec Finlay’s Wild City
When I first heard about Wild City by Alec Finlay, I thought it was a rewilding project similar to my own – however, it isn’t – rather than planting and creating or restoring wild areas in the city, Finlay has instead teamed […]
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Exploring Agnes Denes Further
Agnes Denes is most well known for her work Wheatfield: A Confrontation, but Denes has also created and crucially proposed many other works. One of the proposed works, and one which is streakily relevant for me and my rewilding project, is A Forest For New York […]
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Changes to my labels
Unfortunately, I discovered a few weeks ago that there were issues with where I was accessing the information for my work, and I have therefore had to change a few elements of my work, including editing the design of the […]
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Crit: 01/06/22
Yesterday, we had our first crit since [starting] installing our work for assessment and degree show. I found this really useful, with a lot of suggestions and thoughts for improvements – and some very useful feedback on some bits that […]
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Preparing for Degree Show
Over the past week, we have been preparing the studio space for degree show and assessment, painting and filling the walls and then hanging our work. As I have a large space to fill and have a different colour on […]
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Hashtags
As I have been using hashtags for a long time on my posts, this is something that I didn’t really think about when I posted my first new post. The idea of hashtags is (according to an article from Hootsuite): […]
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Collaboration with Wild Card
Recently, I have had the opportunity to work in collaboration with Wild Card campaign team, who are working campaigns to rewild Royal, Oxbridge and Church land. I originally contacted them about potentially working alongside them on my rewilding project. However, […]
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Back to the Fields, Ruth Ewan (Radical Landscapes: Tate Liverpool)
Radical Landscapes at Tate Liverpool was recommended to me, and in the exhibition, there is Back to the Fields by Ruth Ewan. Back to the Fields is a really interesting work, both for the concept behind it, and the physicality of the work […]