My daughter is helping to organise a conference as part of International Women’s Day in March and as part of that wants women to post pictures and details of women who inspire them. They are asking anyone to send a photo of a woman who has inspired them at some point in their lives. This could …
Another busy week having fun trying new things and rediscovering old ones. The screen printing went well for a first attempt and I now have 8 colourful large Gosport Ferry tickets! I am not sure if these will form part of my final piece but they have certainly whetted my appetite for doing some …
I went to see the exhibition at Tate Modern yesterday showing Alexander Calder’s performing sculptures. I had no expectations of what it would be like but I left Tate Modern very excited about what I had seen. I loved his work – the delicate way he managed to abstract the human body with his wire sculptures …
Yesterday we had a visit from Mark Anstee who makes huge temporary artworks – often (always?) with a historical and emotional aspect, using wonderful creative ideas and incredible drawing skills. It was a huge pleasure to discuss our forthcoming MA work with Mark before his talk, he had something pertinent to say about all our plans …
Since going back to Uni this week, I have had inductions in several of the workshops. Yesterday was the production workshop and it was fun to see the different things I could do if I chose to. I was particularly excited by the digital printing on fabric. The idea of having either my photographs or one …
As I am doing my final work on liminality – in the environment and the mind, I was fascinated to read this piece and was taken by the concept of our bodies being limen…. interesting stuff! See this post from Sesquiotica: limen