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Tours of Room 1 of the Museum of Space Exploration’s 800th anniversary exhibition of artefacts have been running – with appreciation of the performance art required to sustain suspension of disbelief. One colleague has suggested that we might show together […]
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Phew…the final show is hung, there’s nothing more to do to it except wonder how much bigger and better it could be.. But The Museum of Space Exploration is now sailing away into the blogosphere and has its own dedicated […]
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Stella Pioneer report: starlog 23749. Pathfinder has reached Nujema in the Xillian galaxy.
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Untitled blog post from "University of the West of England"
Went to see Zhao Renhui (the Institute of Critical Zoologists) at Cardiff Chapter…amazing for its mix of fiction and fact and the quality of displays. It added another dimension to the concept of display with the use of diasec for […]
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Spent yesterday afternoon painting my light box and plinths. Tried out putting foil round the interior of the light box which made it brighter but also discovered that there was an element of uplighting which will light the prints. However […]
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Started printing the 2 x carborundum prints this week over 2 days. The ink was drying more quickly than the work I had done in early February and after thinking about it I decided it was because I was using […]
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The text is a tease…the wall panel text is something that is whirring in my mind a great deal..at 400 word count it’s about the same as an artist’s statement and is being polished and burnished with a tweak here […]
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The power of studio photography. Some pics of cubes just out of kiln, and bowls. The first MOSE exhibition is set in the future (3,800) a mere 1,788 years from now (that is if the calendar is even the same […]
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The third sawdust firing went well. The mix of sawdust and shavings burnt out within 24 hours. I had sandblasted some of the glazed ceramics producing a surface somewhere between glaze and bisque – they responded to the smoke firing […]
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The second sawdust firing was better…the mixture of sawdust and wood shavings meant there was more air and the addition of some wax meant it fired up well. There was a lot of flame and then smoke. 24 hours later […]
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Following a colleague’s link I have been looking at the work of Singaporean multidisciplinary artist Zhao Renhui who had an exhibition in London last year A Bird in the Hand. Thinking about my entry for 9 March and the ‘conceit’ […]
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Slowly continuing on several fronts. The light box construction is finished and is now ready to paint. I’m pleased that this particular aspect has been dealt with as I know there is loads to do that cannot be done at […]