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1/ INTRODUCTION: COLLABORATING WITH A LEARNING DISABLED ARTIST As an artist who creates permanent and temporary public art installations, collaboration has always been at the centre of my practice. My artwork focuses on the themes of engagement and interaction, from […]
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2/ RESEARCH : MEETING THE ARTISTS It is here that I start my search for an artist who might be willing to work with me, visiting the studio projects to meet the artists and introduce myself. Each artist tutor has […]
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3/ BUILDING A COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP: A DAY IN THE STUDIO (part 1) Linda Bell is an artist who I had worked with briefly a number of years ago, standing in temporarily as an artist tutor for the South London Studio […]
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4/ BUILDING A COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP: A DAY IN THE STUDIO (part 2) With no clear plan of how to begin and where it would all lead, the collaborative day at last arrived. Siobhan and I had previously considered ways of […]
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5/ BUILDING A COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP: A DAY IN THE STUDIO (part 3) Following a well-earned lunch break, we resumed work, adding some contrastingly soft wool fibre into the spaces within the frame. Returning to the predominantly yellow, free standing structure […]
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Untitled blog post from "Building a Collaborative Partnership with a Learning Disabled Artist"
6/ SUMMARY: JOURNEYING FORWARD Our day in the studio was the first step towards what hopes to develop into a longer term collaborative partnership. Linda’s response to the day had shown that she was happy to work with me in […]