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Virtual Open Exhibition
One of three Peace Paintings, Road To Peace, is currently exhibited in the first Lincolnshire Virtual Open Exhibition. It’s titled Road To Peace, or sometimes And Our Heroes Have Misplaced Their Map, and is available for sale priced at £5000. […]
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Untitled blog post from "Artist as unpaid carer"
OK, so my work wasn’t accepted for the RA Summer Exhibition, and there isn’t really any reason why it wasn’t. In a conversation with non artists on Facebook, the non artists were shocked that artists have to pay to enter […]
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RA Summer Exhibition
As the RA Summer Exhibition opened for submissions, this was the purpose of the SANE Creative Awards scheme funding – to cover the economic barrier that is entry fees, shipping costs and any travel to London for the RA Summer […]
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The Oram Awards
The next step for Lost Dreams is to enter it into the Oram Awards Applications open 3rd July. I feel as though it really should be included in some of the summer festivals such as Blue Dot Festival, the Exhibition […]
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Sane Creative Awards Scheme
I was very pleased to be awarded the SANE Creative Awards Scheme this year, which is for my new series of Monaco paintings. These paintings address the juxtaposition of life experiences as a carer, being denied any income for caring, […]
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Fra Motorveien 1995
Following the success of Sleep Piece For Yoko Ono for last year’s #InspirationalWomenArtists exhibition and auction, this year, I have submitted Fra Motorveien 1995. Fra Motorveien 1995 is inspired by Norwegian artist Elisabeth Haarr, Harrison Pushwagner, and my own experiences […]
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Lost Dreams installation for High Street Happening
Lost Dreams has been accepted for the upcoming High Street Happening event in Lincoln, and will be installed for an inaugural exhibition on Saturday 18th March. It will be installed as an audio visual exhibition in St Mary Le Wigford […]
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NCCH Creative Health Review Roundtable
Last week, I took part in the National Centre for Creative Health Creative Health Review Roundtable. There were some very inspiring examples of how arts in social care can be used to improve wellbeing, although within the discussion, it was […]
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Lost Dreams featured in the University Of Lincoln Alumni blog
Lost Dreams is featured in the University of Lincoln Alumni magazine here. The aim of this is to achieve a paid exhibition at a festival such as Gravity Fields Festival, where art and science are showcased, and my mentor, Sir […]
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New Peace Paintings!
Last year, I produced three paintings for Peace Painting following lockdown. This was possible after my youngest son was given the life experiences we expected him to have, and got a new job, after a period of ten months’ destitution […]
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Lost Dreams concept videos
In 2021, I was awarded a Business Revival Grant from City Of Lincoln Council, which was for vital technology such as a brand new iMac, a new digital camera, a sanitisation station for workshops (yet everyone has since started to […]
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Cost of Living Crisis / Energy crisis
Does anyone know if Artists’ Day Rate Fees are going to be readjusted to match the Cost Of Living Crisis and the new energy crisis? This is the biggest issue as an artist and carer – sky high energy bills […]