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Life Drawing and Arts Practice Cycles

I came across a Drawing from my Mansfield College of Art Life Drawing Class ‘77 and realised its exactly the sort of artwork I want to return to, wacky?

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Access 2 Touch/See/Hear/Do

I have been researching online guides on how to produce accessible performance and I found this clearly explained working document by ‘unlimited’ arts commissioning program for disabled artists, titled Demystifying Access. The guide opens with a statement: ‘If you care […]

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Final Thoughts

This research over the last few months has been really exciting and incredibly liberating. I’m not one for sentiment but getting to know Tanya through the archives of her practice and communications between her friends and family has been a […]

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Sketch Boxes

  After the drawing exercises we moved onto collage that was based around the text we’d been given. We were told to chose a passage in the text and after various text analysis processes and library research to find appropriate […]

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The Course

    I went on the Theatre Set Design for Performance short course at Central Saint Martins in July 2018. It was such a wonderful opportunity and one I will be forever thankful to AN Bursary for enabling me to […]

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The Archives

      Turns out Tanya is really pretty well known! Her drawings, sketches, notes, transcripts, stage directions, lists (endless lists), sketch boxes and correspondence make up over 80 boxes in the V&A theatre archive in London, as well as […]

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The Plan

    My activity was to be broken down into three periods of research and development: Historical and contextual research through museum collections, visiting Tanya’s drawings and models in the archives of the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, and exploring […]

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‘Community’ Play, Crowd Funding

‘COMMUNITY’ is the first independent LGBT theatre performance coming to The House of Blah Blah gallery and creative space in Middlesbrough April 2016. The play is written and directed by young upcoming Producer Scott Davies, who is passionate about working […]

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Ullapool

A formative residency in Ullapool North West Scotland produce a set of bizarre costumed characters combining elements of ‘wild’ animals, outdoor sports fabrics and equipment. Through conversations with people in Ullapool I developed the opinion that you were “as likely […]

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The Stage: Theatre of War

For this blog post you need to know that my father was José Garcia Lora and that this was my family name. There’s been a gap in blogging. This happens when life takes over. So it’s been since taking Without […]

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