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Experimenting with Materials and Texture
Colour The investigation of colour began with my screen prints, where I was investigating using the transparent coloured inks to show the colours underneath. Unfortunately due to the transparency of the inks this meant that the colours were dulled down […]
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Investigating Printmaking Techniques
Since I last posted, I have been developing my project through using the process of screenprinting. I decided the my original screen print design that I developed was too structured and controlled for my work and therefore have been developing […]
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Degree Project Module: Statement of Intent
My work in level 5 was mainly focussed on traces. This lead into traces that people leave by walking. This can include physical traces such as their footprints or the non-physical traces such as memories that we make, journeys that […]
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Developing a Narrative for My Work – The important questions*
What am I inspired by? *20 minutes of writing uninterrupted I take the majority of inspiration from my travels. I spent a year living in India when I was 19. I lived within a community of people in the south […]
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Screen Prints
Using the work that I have been doing towards my woodcut designs and developing a simplistic design similar to the styles seen in Indian paintings and Japanese wood block print, I have developed a design for my screen print. The […]
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Inspiration from my trip to London in November
Turner prize 2016: I went to see the turner prize 2016 at the Tate Britain, which was won this year by Helen Marten. I was particularly inspired by her work; in terms of the way that she combines sculpture with […]
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Guerrilla Girls Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
From London Trip, November 2016 I went to see the Guerrilla Girls exhibition at the Whitechapel gallery whilst on the university trip to London. In 1985, a group of feminist activists in New York donned gorilla masks and took the […]
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Czech Republic
Trip to Uherske Hradiste: Day 1 Sunday – After arriving in Brno late on Saturday evening on Sunday we went to visit a number of modern art galleries around Brno. The first gallery included work of local upcoming artists […]
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Women in India
May you be the mother of a hundred sons Elisabeth Bumiller This is the title of a book written by Elizabeth Bumiller. She is a woman that went to live in India in the 1980s and 1990s and she […]
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India 2016
Over the summer I went travelling to India for 7 weeks. I have been there before (I lived there for a year) and I find it a really inspiring country to be in. Its full of colour and culture. It […]