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Favourite quote: 'At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering - the father to the mother choosing to defend herself. To escape the bickering around me I started modeling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread - sometimes still warm - I would make little figures. And I would line up these little figures on the table and this was really my first sculpture' Louise Bourgeois, May 1999
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Being Human : : Its a Group Thing
Heard of Frome, Somerset?. It's a place you should !....I hadnt until this week. The Beinghuman Collective have found the perfect place to create. Its a great and vibrant little town with a West Country pace, just 2 hours from... Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2013 at down by the water front
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Cradle to Grave : Plastics, Resins, Infinity and Industry
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Getting the Balance Right. A few years ago I went to a discussion about sustainable fashion, one of the speakers was Katherine Hamnett. Back then the organic cotton manufacturing industry was in all sorts of conundrums about authenticity; from growing... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2013 at down by the water front
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Hyperallergic's Discussion on Tumblr, Social Media Platforms and Art
This is well worth a listen. Hyperallergic's discussion held Saturday 9th March in Brooklyn streamed via the link below. Running at 2 hours 30min - is something to perhaps take in short bites. On the subject of art and the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2013 at down by the water front
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Alex Pain :: Erratics
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“Erratics are boulders or rocks lifted, transported and deposited to an unfamiliar environment, far from their original location, by glacial movement”. I’d seen Alex Pain’s work earlier in the year at the opening of Two Queens new gallery space in... Continue reading
Posted Oct 22, 2012 at down by the water front
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Tainted Love :: Part Three
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It was in early May that I first came across Tainted Love. Or rather I already knew about the exhibition while it had been in its first home at Transition Gallery in Hackney, London during the spring of 2012. But... Continue reading
Posted Sep 16, 2012 at down by the water front
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Culture, Heritage, Art and car boot sales for the wealthy.
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Ok ..I'm on a bit of a soapbox here, and I would like to be a hell of a lot more postive.. Not happy on reading about Europe's crisis (and pretty damn well the whole world's). Governments and councils are... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2012 at down by the water front
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Lives of Artists Series Four : On The Cusp
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CUSP and Vanilla Gallery space is new – literally since March. The cavernous space was opened in a vacated Cash & Carry building at 2 Queens Street in the Cultural Quarter of Leicester. With this literally being the 2nd exhibition... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2012 at down by the water front
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Space, Creativity and Relationships
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This Sunday’s report in the NYT Review on creativity, and the current shift toward group thinking has, I think, got some wider social connotations. Taking the office space “brain storming” ethic to its logical openplan-inclusive conclusion : A video gaming... Continue reading
Posted Jan 15, 2012 at down by the water front
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The Price is Right (Art Fairs and Affordable Art)
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Ok I've slept on London's Frieze and Affordable Art art fairs... More later, though on Frieze with its satellites of Moving image Contemporary Video and Sluice. And not least the very gripping (albeit mainly London-centric) graduates fair incorporated at AAF......... Continue reading
Posted Oct 23, 2011 at down by the water front
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Showroom Dummies : Women's Bodies, Representation and Conflicting Taboo's
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Oh the irony…… I am taking a few moments to reflect on the recently opened exhibition by Jennifer Dalton “Cool Guys Like You”…..an exhibition that shows through drawings, graphs and photographic image a startling, and in these troubled times, seemingly... Continue reading
Posted Sep 18, 2011 at down by the water front
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Clone Me!.....Again
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Original photograph copyright of Glenn E Friedman Public Relations, Plagiarism, and Self Promotion This is how the World Assembly of Public Relations defined PR in August 1978 : "The art and social science of analysing trends, predicting their consequences, counselling... Continue reading
Posted Aug 21, 2011 at down by the water front
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Lives of Artists Series Three : The DJ Wot U Talkin' About : Parte Uno
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OK…Redlight/referencias de Ms Dynamite aparte …. Cuán verdadero! podría haber sido mi indicación - la línea para tantas interacciones - con mi falta de espanol de habla + la necesidad desesperada de lecciones! lecciones! lecciones!. (las disculpas en el avance... Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2011 at down by the water front
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Don't Make Me Think....Just Raise The Ante
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In amongst all the maelstrom of social media : with its tweets… be they purposeful political strategy's or not. Within all the FB nudges, pokes, likes, inane games, mind numbing time consuming *interactions* much lauded by the nay sayers and... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2011 at down by the water front
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Lives of Artists Series Three : Graphic Artists as Fashion Designers Right Here Right Now
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Ok, I was going to call this post Lazy Hazy Days of Summer… or something…it being about Lazy Oafs Spring and Summer 11 collection and all things summery!. And, with it now being well on the way into early June,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2011 at down by the water front
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Lives of Artists Series Three : The Designer So Far Soda Good
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Its a funny old world…. as I am out here in Spain expecting to post about the nuances of Spanish experience, and away-from-it-all rural niceties. With sporadic internet and therefore a less frenetic absorption of *wider* info. Only to find... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2011 at down by the water front
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By Hook or By Book
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Ok, Firstly apologies for not keeping you posted more frequently than every couple of weeks while I am here in Spain. Truth is I am actually doing more of what I came here to do, and that is, making art.... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2011 at down by the water front
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Far and Near; The Macro and Micro of Detritus
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Hmmmm, ok, having had a few ups and downs (and it has to be said some were expected, internet and wifi being one) during my time here in Spain. Another of which I could have seen coming, based on either... Continue reading
Posted Mar 30, 2011 at down by the water front
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Les Invisibles; Gender Specific Smiles
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I have been in Southern Spain a month now. Village life has a rhythm. The elements demand respect. Modernity is kept in a certain context; power blips are a-not-too-frequent fact. Signals bow to the weather. And things carry on in... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2011 at down by the water front
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A Method of Deployment
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It is my first sunny Saturday without a cold wind gusting here in Spain. The sea is still, the air is tranquil with bird song and spring aromas. The quiet before Festivo Dia del Andalucia on Monday no doubt. When... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2011 at down by the water front
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Traversa ; Ciudad y Pueblo
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I'm here ! Over the next few days and weeks I will be posting from Southern Spain with a few impressions of my journey, from the cold, rainy bustling mid-UK city of Nottingham to wintery Southern Spanish city of Malaga... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2011 at down by the water front
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Time Line
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Four months ago I, along with many others, were eagerly awaiting In The Days of The Comet, the aptly titled British Art Show 7 exhibition, to arrive at Nottingham Contemporary. We were not disappointed, the once-every-five-year event took up its... Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2011 at down by the water front
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Breathing Lessons
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Been thinking about the type of art projects I have been interested in recently, and, increasingly I’ve noticed that they have a starting point with Kickstarter a creative project site which encourages people who are interested in seeing a project... Continue reading
Posted Jan 18, 2011 at down by the water front
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Tree Blogging
A Response to @Platea’s Project VIII Treeblogging An online art project from January 10th 2011 Go here to join in ! Specifically linked to the Treeblogging Trunk idea via Christi Nielsen with her sound scape Zoo Factory and Clockity’s Fallen,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2011 at down by the water front
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Had A Good Day
To have had a good day.... That’s what we all hope for when we head toward the land of nod. The hope that whatever we wanted to accomplish, discuss, start or finish has generated a positive rather than a negative... Continue reading
Posted Jan 6, 2011 at down by the water front
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Schrödinger's Cat
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We’ve had a steady stream of end-of-year-best-of, top-ten lists and awards for entertainment from film to tv shows to music. And just as with any list or award process, unless set in a polling booth scenario, the people involved with... Continue reading
Posted Dec 30, 2010 at down by the water front
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