ISMs In The Art Gallery I have linked my presentation, above, and the photo shows all of my casts so far laid out on the table during my presentation. During my presentation I wanted to focus on how my river project is about engaging the audience and being more interactive than your average piece of […]
Read More Presentation- ISMs in the Art Gallery 07/03/19The_Carrier_Bag_Theory_of_Fiction_-_Ursu The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K Le Guin, lead by Elena the human aspect- not sure if we agree that heroes are the driver of a story, necessarily- people in the modern day enjoy watching people do mundane everyday activities- i.e. ASMR videos, or the TV show Gogglebox the container as […]
Read More BABEWORLD READING GROUP: The Carrier Bag Theory of FictionMORR Poetry Anthology Digital I recently undertook a commission to design a poetry anthology for the Make Our Rights Reality campaign– a youth led campaign for a human rights based approach to mental health which I have been part of for a few years. I have designed a digital PDF version (linked above) as well […]
Read More Designing a Poetry Anthology for the Make Our Rights Reality CampaignI am leading next week’s Babeworld3000 reading group, and have chosen to examine a zine made by Dr. Charlotte Cooper, The Blob. This post is essentially my notes covering what I want to discuss during the group so that I have something prepped! I have chosen this text as it is something very close to […]
Read More READING GROUP PLAN AND NOTES FROM GROUP: The Blob by Dr Charlotte CooperEXCERPT 3 IMPOSTER SYNDROME (there are a few pages missing) Notes made during the 3rd reading group The Problem With Impostor Syndrome is a chapter from a book called Steal As Much As You Can by Nathalie Olah: the writing style uses a lot of academic language to make it more palatable to academia the way […]
Read More READING GROUP WITH BABEWORLD3000: The Problem With Imposter SyndromeTAKING UP SPACE EXCERPT Notes made during the second BABEWORLD3000 reading group, reading the introduction to Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi the expectations placed on minorities- remembering where you come from, but not allowing yourself to be tokenised the pressure to succeed that others who are […]
Read More BABEWORLD3000 Reading Group: Intro to “Taking Up Space”FIRST READING – THE PLEASURE BUTTON- LOW INCOME FOOD INEQUALITY- EXCERPT FROM KNOW YOUR PLACE PDF of scans of the text above Notes made during the reading group: Fish and chips on a Friday night with my Granddad sharing of working class experiences via the reading group “aftertaste of regret” – this hit me because […]
Read More Reading Group With Babeworld3000: “The Pleasure Button: Low Income Food Inequality”Making a gif banner seems a bit hit and miss- the lowest down one is the best one I’ve managed to make so far, but I’m still not 100% happy with it so I’m going to keep experimenting until I get it right. Also it turns out RedBubble only accept PNG or JPEG for their […]
Read More Further GIF ExperimentsI am making a Redbubble account to sell some of my designs on, as all my work has been cancelled due to Covid19- I would prefer to print my designs onto products first i.e. via screen printing at 3rd Rail Print Space, but it is shut due to the pandemic and I need a form […]
Read More Photoshop ExperimentationAbove: photographs taken of classical marble sculptures in one of the rooms at the Victoria and Albert Museum, taken on my phone I spent about 3 hours in this part of the museum drawing and photographing some of the sculptures shown above, partly for practice as I am wildly out of practice in terms of […]
Read More FAT Research: V&A Visit
