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Loudest Whispers 2014
I was really tempted to call this post loudest whispers, quietest screams…talk about suffering for your art :) So, I went to London last Monday to supervise Sea Change being installed at St Pancras...
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What’s in a Name?
So I’ve been interviewed 4 times in 2 months, and two of the interviewers were reluctant to accept Singing Bird as my action name. As an agoraphobic, this is an avatar that helps me be somewhere that...
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Process/progress
I’m steadily making more progress on the Wasting Waste installation, and trying to write about the piece feels really like wading through mud. Being in a very visual/ tactile space with all the fabrics...
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organic process
I have been trapped in a super low energy, super painful fibromyalgia flare, hanging on to my moods by my fingertips some days, and with white knuckles on others…Luckily, as the trigger episode fades,...
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
I have been going through more old photos to see what I can use for the blue/brown book. There’s one image of a fence panel I have used so many times :) It’s the one l use for my avatar, it looks...
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Progress report
I have been having many small and irksome obstacles recently, against a background of settling in to the new meds – Gabapentin and then Lansaprazole again to manage the digestive system pain and...
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The Vital Spark
There’s a point where the results of exploring ideas, even idle messing around with materials of any kind, suddenly come alive, ‘quicken’ as the work-to-be makes itself known the way a baby does with...
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Necessary Friction: Funky Felt Marbling for Spoonies and Chronic Pain Peeps
I loved the felting class Clare Brewer led, but needed to find a less energetic version. One way of avoiding the rolling and thumping is knitting to felt, but knitting is still hard for those of us...
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exciting news: Threads of Empire
The University of Nottingham Weston Gallery at Lakeside Arts Centre will be hosting an exhibition from April 12th called ‘Threads of Empire: rule and resistance in colonial India.’, see...
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Process art: creating a response piece
This post explains how I came to create my piece ‘Tangled Freedoms 3’ in response to the archive materials in the ‘Threads of Empire: rule and resistance in colonial India’ exhibition, opens April 12th...
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