Art and Today
Art & Today (Eleanor Heartney, Phaidon Press Ltd, 2008) is a large tome of writing on contemporary art and we were asked to choose one chapter to read which we […]
Category Archives: 1.3 Studio Practice
Personal paintings
I’ve been reading Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison and in the early chapters, she talks about historical figures whose behaviour has lead her (and others) to believe they […]
Mental Health Research
All links were live and accessible on the publication date of this post. I have been reading books and doing lots of online research on mental health. Either written by […]
Colour diaries
I had been thinking for some time that I could/should do an artistic diary of some sort. I had bought various things to try to encourage me to do so […]
Pitcher research
My initial ideas for this piece were definitely inspired by Damien Hirst‘s Midas room at the Tate Modern Show. These are rows and rows of cubic zirconia placed on glass […]
Mental Health Links
These are all found on the Wellcome site page for the Bobby Baker exhibition on today’s published date for this post. Useful links A selection of websites related to the […]
Links for ipad/electronic art
All sourced on the published date of this post – from the BBC website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20028689 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11582423 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19576763 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19786035
As You Were…
I have finally finished my sundew chair. It seems to have taken me ages – which it has because it was very labour intensive – but also because I have […]
Touched with Fire
I’ve been reading Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison and in the early chapters, she talks about historical figures whose behaviour has lead her (and others) to believe they […]
BBC Mental Health and Creativity stories
There was a story on the BBC site today, that talks about the ‘closely entwined links’ between creativity and mental health. There were several other links that lead from this […]
