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Contemporary Drawing Blog
This month I have been looking at drawings made by artists using text-based marks as described in Margaret Davidson’s book ‘Contemporary Drawing – Key Concepts and Techniques’. She explains that some...
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This week I delivered some work to the Wing Gallery in Wadhurst as part of the ‘Woven’ exhibition 30th May – 24th June https://www.facebook.com/events/1579412155630514/ I made a new embroidery...
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Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin 1912-2004 I recently went to the Tate Modern to see the Agnes Martin exhibition that has just opened. I didn’t really know much about her but I was curious as although her work is quite...
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It has been more about running workshops this month than anything else, beginning with monoprinting, one of my favourite drawing techniques where paper is placed onto an inked surface and the pressure...
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Jerwood Drawing Prize
I have been late in writing this months contemporary drawing blog and was planning to write about the Jerwood Drawing Prize. 60 works by 58 artists have been selected for this year’s exhibition which...
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I made a few sketches from my trip to Cornwall, most of them were of Frankie, our model for the week, wondering around a pretty little bay: I made one of the sketches I did into an embroidery but I...
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Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015
I decided to write this post before and after I visited the Jerwood Drawing Prize, so that I could find out as much about it before I went and then write about my thoughts on it after my visit....
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I went to Turkey for a couple of weeks during the end of August and beginning of September. It was a place I have been to many times but only started drawing there last year. Unfamiliar with landscape...
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Further adventures of the life drawing dress
During October the Life Drawing dress went to the beautiful PowderMills Hotel for the Pure Autumn Art Fair. Together with life model Frankie, one of the collaborators of the dress, we ran a 2 day...
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Contemporary Drawing – Scale
I return again to Margaret Davidson’s book Contemporary Drawing – Key Concepts and Techniques for my source of reference and inspiration. I have read or tried to read many other articles about...
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December 2015
Over the last month I have been investigating the possibility of having my watercolours digitized and machine embroidered. I have found a company that specialises in bespoke machine embroidery and they...
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Tracey Emin
‘Emin’s drawings are full of anger and sentimentality, and that is why they are effective as they are. They are new and unpleasant. Her honesty and her trust in her own feelings, has made her avoid...
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January 2016
The New Year is often a time for reflection and thinking about the future, making plans to improve our lives. Whilst I have been working on my latest embroidery project, I have been listening to...
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‘Do Not Abandon Me’– Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin
In my last post about Tracey Emin I mentioned some of the artists that she had exhibited her work alongside. ‘Do Not Abandon Me’ is a collaboration between Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin consisting...
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I have been working hard completing the embroidery I started in December It is much larger than ones I have made in the past, just over a metre long. It is hand stitched and I have used approximately...
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Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker OBE, RA is an English sculptor and installation artist born 1956. She is well known for her large scale installations such as ‘Cold Dark Matter’ An Exploded View, 1991, a reconstruction...
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I finished the embroidery I started last month As I named the previous embroidery ‘Red Thread’ I felt ‘Red Thread II’ was a little dull so I asked google to translate red thread into French and it gave...
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Monthly blog
Things seem to be going quite well with the Spring Exhibition in Dorset, I’ve had a couple of sales and some very positive feedback which is always encouraging. The show will continue until April 23rd...
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Monthly Blog
I have been making some smaller embroideries for the Artist Open Houses Festival in Brighton Some of my work will be in 2 of the houses throughout May, Fugitive Ink and The Trojan House I have also...
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Mark Wallinger ID
I managed to get to the Mark Wallinger ID exhibition at Hauser & Wirth before it closes this weekend. Mark Wallinger’s “ID” is an exploration of Freud’s interpretation of the id, ego, and superego,...
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