The long gap between posts represents starting an MA Fine and Applied Arts. Working three days a week at a gallery and a mid-winter trudge through the snow. A lot of work has happened and I have recently updated my […]
Water Light: Experimental film project with artists Harriet Gifford and Hazel Stone. This is a free public screening of short films by us, the two artists, onto the facade of the old cinema building on Whitstable High Street. The event […]
Water Lights. I am curating an outdoor public screening of new experiental films by myself and Hazel Stone for Whitstable Bennale Satellite. We had a technical run through last night and it looks amazing. I’m very happy. More details to […]
phew, what a round-a-bout. I am trying to organise a public outdoor screening for a new film as part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite. Mostly I have encountered enthusiastic and helpful people but trying to establish whether or not I […]
Debut Film: on Saturday I made my first short film. I got up early and shot some footage, on my first video camera, in the village where I live. I imported the files to my computer, used my new software […]
As I enjoy a couple of weeks uninterrupted work in the studio, part of me, even whilst loving the physical act of painting, is thinking that painting is the wrong answer, slow, out dated, redundant. The companion photographs to accompany […]
Its been a busy time since last I blogged, reading, reading, looking, making reading. Showing, selling, marketing and working. And the conculsion I have reached is to do an MA in fine art. I have considered it many times over […]
A lot of time recently reading and researching, diving into the pool of new data visualisations and net-art has led to the creation of a new website experiment: www.photisms.com a simple first step into the warm waters.
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In the winter cold, out walking with my camera. Taking a break from uploading some old black & white negatives onto the computer. Playing around in my digital darkroom, having fun. Just enjoying making, not worrying about results. Sometimes that’s […]
www.harrietgifford.com I updated and redesigned my website this weekend and I’m happy with the results. I’m particularly happy with the “new work” page. Just tiny bits of tweeking left, then drawing for the rest of today. I have so much […]
I have been asked by the drawing show to send in a print version digital photograph of one of the drawings I submitted. Things are looking happy.