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Wrap up
October – November Hot Bed Press In late October I returned to Hot Bed Press to undertake an introductory hardback book making weekend course, led by artist Sylvia Waltering, who works with photography, text, installation and artists’ book. Over the course of […]
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Untitled blog post from "Off the Shelf"
This is the first of three posts summarising the last stages of my bursary activities over the last few months. It’s been hugely rewarding period, but one I’ve decided to reflect on retrospectively rather than immediately. August – September Research I […]
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Archives & Offprint
Have you ever come across something retrospectively and immediately regretted missing out? This happened to me last year I was introduced to independent art publishing fair Offprint. Offprint was exactly what I’ve been looking out for: an international publishing fair bringing together […]
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Hot Bed Press workshop
Hello and welcome to my (much delayed) third blog post. As I’ve previously mentioned, one of the core motivations for applying for a professional development bursary was improving my limited technical skills in bookmaking. Despite my worryingly intense appreciation for […]
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Leeds – Artists’ Book Fair and Dora García
First on my research agenda was a trip over the Pennines to Leeds at the beginning of March. The Tetley hosted the 20th anniversary of the longest running artists’ book fair outside of London. Co-curated with PAGES, the fair coincided with […]
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Belated hello…
Welcome to Off the Shelf, a blog charting the activities I’m undertaking during the period of my a-n Professional Development Bursary. Before I set the context, firstly; an apology. While I have only just set up this blog, I have been […]
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Untitled blog post from "Processing"
The third extract from the Processing newspaper is the introduction to Kenn Taylor’s text on McCoy Wynne’s ‘Triangulation’ project. In February this year, Kenn accompanied McCoy Wynne on a visit to photograph their next triangulation point. Kenn’s text reveals the […]
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Untitled blog post from "Processing"
The second extract from the Processing newspaper, ahead of the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, is the conclusion to my interview with photographer Kevin Casey: JW: A few months back we discussed that when shooting the project, you observed […]
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Untitled blog post from "Processing"
In the first extract from Processing newspaper, I interviewed photographer Kevin Casey about his ongoing project Chamber (2011-) The project documents the inner workings of the UK’s decompression chambers. Jack Welsh: What motivated you to start ‘Chamber’? Kevin Casey: It […]
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Untitled blog post from "Processing"
Four months, one crowdfunding campaign, a fair few InDesign sessions and a courier delivery later: the Processing newspaper has arrived. Made possible by 62 Sponsume contributors, the newspaper has been printed and delivered – several boxes currently stacked in my […]
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Untitled blog post from "Processing"
Good morning. I’m writing this from sunny Ibiza where I am on tour with Islington Mill. It has been a really amazing time with some really interesting work being made but you can read about the tour on the a-n […]
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Untitled blog post from "Processing"
We are just about to enter into the last five days of our crowdfunding campaign to raise money to print a newspaper for Processing Since my last post at the end of April, we’ve reached a fantastic £800 of our […]