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beauty as a manifesto, calming as a practice
“It is [the] spiritual and evolutionary function of beauty—the power to generate life-affirming change—that is so vital to the visual arts and culture in general, and it is what is intentionally absent...
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on making space
So there is the space we make in our heads, the time we clear in our schedules, and then…there is the space we need physically to be able to make the art… They can all be demanding to organise, but as...
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open and shut case
The last week has been a lot about this: - which took a lot of stubborn persistence ;) I don’t often completely miss it with my art, but after an hour’s filming (thanks Keith!) and more in Picasa...
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back to the drawing board
It was lovely to have enough spoons and nothing planned so I could get out my 12metre roll of taffeta, which I’d embellished a little last week, and start trying out more colours and elements with it....
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waste not, want not: sewing room snippets
I’ve had the loveliest evening, listening to a favourite band with interesting lyrics, while making miniature bunting/ yarn tags/ fibre art tags. Now, I’m using tags in the graffiti sense, a street...
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fibre tagging
So these are the bedizeners I have been making over the last week, about 3 dozen, which makes a feast of colour and tiny details that get quite overpowering when they’re all laid out on my photography...
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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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