The A-N bursary will enable me to undertake a confectionery short course, where I will acquire the skills to explore sugar as a sculptural and edible material in relation to the female body and embodiment.
“Here in Palermo […] there are no migrants. Those who arrive in the city become Palermitans. The declaration ‘I am human’ contained in the Charter of Palermo demands recognition of international mobility as an inviolable human right.” Leoluca Orlando […]
(Image: ‘New Herbs from Palermo and Surroundings. A Sicillian Expedition,’ 2018 by Alberto Baraya.) The title of Manifesta 12 is: “The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence;” to quote some exhibition blurb: “[Manifesta 12] explores coexistence in a world moved by invisible […]
(Image: ‘Liquid Violence,’ 2018, by Forensic Oceanography. Photo: Wolfgang Trager, courtesy of Manifesta 12, Palermo.) A short film shown in Laura Potras’ installation ‘Signal Flow’ (2018) documents the interactions of migrants, housed at a reception centre in Sicily, waiting to […]
Arduino Uno, 16-Neopixel ring, ultrasonic HC-SR04 sensor, separate power supply for the Neopixels, and some props to create a circuit to test the connections. Once this works, the plan is to channel the readings to Max Msp, analyse them, and […]
Scaling up, testing 5 of the ultrasonic sensors in series.
Testing and exploring form and light with glass pieces. I tend to think through making so I will loosely assemble an initial idea and then keep working on it until it’s right. These are very early stages.
In advance of each annual Letterpress Workers conference, attendees are invited to contribute to the annual book that chronicles each year and its associated themes. All contributors then receive a copy of the book as a memento of their experience. […]
A blog chronicling participation in the Letterpress Workers International Summit 2018 in Milan, supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company.
A Technical Report on Drawing as Octochronoplasmantic Evidence || Meta-Neuronic Design for Impossible Theatres
Developing my ideas towards the larger 3d prints has been challenging and I’ve found myself frequently hitting the limits of my technical ability with 3d modelling software. With the course taking place on a weekly basis, the pressure mounted as we developed our projects towards our larger […]
An Old Web Presence In order to go forward, it was important to first highlight all previous attempts at producing my website, and to talk through what elements were successful and what features didn’t work. 1) Gordondouglas.wordpress.com, 2008-12, […]
The first step of this journey is to learn this process. I enrolled on an Introduction to Wet Plate Collodion Course at Photofusion, South London. The course is run by Daniel Barter, a wet plate collodion professional, and a great […]
A little introduction to me, and my plan for developing a new website during the a-n Artist Bursary period.
Initiated by visual artist Sam Williams and lead by choreographer Joe Moran, Containers is a series of workshops for artists, writers, curators and researchers with an interest in the choreographic and a desire to incorporate movement and somatics into their […]
The third and fourth weeks have largely been spent working in the CAD suite and looking more closely at creating objects in programmes such as Studio 3d Max. 3D Studio Max is part of the Autodesk suite of programmes (also […]
This blog will chart my wet plate collodian journey. I am very excited to have been awarded the Professional Development bursary in order to learn this process, and gain the skills (and confidence!) in order to create a project using […]
If the general definition of a ‘weed’ is taken to be ‘a plant in the wrong place’ or ‘a plant growing where it is not wanted’, what then is the right place for a plant to grow? Project: The Ragwort […]
I was back at Rope Press for the final day of my printing journey of self discovery and armed with a serious to-do list. On Wednesday I learned how to separate the colour channels of a photograph into CMYK layers and […]
Of all the different printing techniques/processes I’ve tried, screen-printing is the one I’ve struggled the most with, both in terms of making it to the end of the process and in terms of producing work that I actually like. I’ve tried it the […]
I had big drawing plans for the third day but they were overshadowed by my lack of preparation for a 4 colour CMYK Riso workshop I had booked for 7pm. The workshop was at Rope Press and I needed to have […]
Day 1 of my residency was a flop and doesn’t warrant its own post so I’ve decided my residency actually starts today, Tuesday. On Monday I missed my train in an attempt to track down a lightbox I lost in […]
The first in a series of blog posts about a self-organised Risograph and silk-screen printing residency in Birmingham.
For my A-N artist bursary 2018 I will be attending mentoring sessions with the artist Rory Pilgrim and organising an event for peer to peer critique with artists who make moving image in Devon and Cornwall.
To get specialist training in MAX MSP to develop new light and sound interactive glass sculptures. The aim is to create a framework of code and a prototype sculptural unit by Dec 2018, to then be used in a modular way, as a flexible basis for multi-sensory installations.
