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sea change
I am very excited! Sea change has been accepted by Nottingham City Council for exhibition in a Green Flag winning park! This is my first municipal showing; I had to learn some computer stuff at top...
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SEE MORE @ Nottingham Contemporary
Soooooo…the Contemporary class curve balled me, and extended by a week, meaning I will have an interesting challenge on managing spoons of energy…On Friday 10th May, we are having a 3hour performative...
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see more slideshow
Boom! I finished the handmade book SEE MORE and I even knocked up a couple of flyers for the SEE MORE @ Nottingham Contemporary Space, while doing necessaries for SEA CHANGE…might need to lie in a...
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installation day!
Well, my tree monkeys have done me proud So lovely to have friends who can do things I can’t, and Keith has taken some great photos again, mainly long shots, so once we have some details on a sunny and...
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see more @ contemporary
I’m feeling a bit wordless and foggy after lots of talking to strangers at the park/installation and over facebook, so this will be a brief catch up post. See More went off very well, I arrived all in...
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overcoming post show slump
So in the cab back from the art in the park picnic, I started talking about post exhibition slump and how to avoid it…it is an odd feeling, all this effort (and now I have fibromyalgia, I’ve skimped on...
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agoraphobia and exhibitions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg7Hp0JkMC0 - a short film made by the Nottingham Contemporary crew about the course and how it affected some members, at 3 minutes they did well to fit in the WEA...
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trent uni degree shows: the importance of respect
Cherise invited me to look round the Fine Art Degree show yesterday…oh my, I was so disappointed…and increasingly cross…things like breaches of health and safety, notes to invigilators to warn of...
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progress on bundles
Thanks to Wain for asking why I wrap bundles, it gave me the spark to write a post. I have been working slowly as I am very tired after the physical effort of going to see the graduate shows and then...
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Biodiversity loss: the past’s sci-fi warnings are here
This is the song that frames Silent Running, a film I have never been able to watch without crying…that it should ever come to pass that the only way to save the biodiversity of Earth would be to send...
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waste not, want not 1: sprouting seeds, growing potatoes
I have been thinking about waste again, partly because I am reading Richard Girling’s ‘Rubbish! Dirt on our Hands and Crisis Ahead’ Rubbish!: (Dirt on our hands and crisis ahead) which is very...
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sunny days in the garden
The dog rose is flowering, and the loveliest thing is seeing how many more are to come! There are two dozen buds on that branch alone This bush was drowned in sycamore weedlings before Ben in flat 2...
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waste not, want not: raised beds for veg
The number of self seeded and unwanted sycamores in the communal garden is almost beyond counting: Ben took down 35 in one weekend and hardly made a dent on anything except the woodpile Not totally...
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Hollie McNish: the best poet of the streets since Benjamin Zephaniah?
A friend sent me a link to Hollie McNish on you tube, and I was stunned: she is the best poet I’ve heard perform for ages! I went to a lot of performance poetry events with Andy (Andy Postman, my...
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fixing our communities
There is a joy in making something work again, or giving it a new life, that people have been consumerised out of in the last 20 years. I have a weakness for £/$ shops, as I often find bankrupt stock...
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diversity is our strength
So, this is a detail of the Diversity is our Strength installation I am hanging near the Community Stage at Nottingham LGBT Pride. It’s not finished yet, but while Cherise and I set the world to...
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diversity at Pride
First: a big thank you to the friendly strangers who helped me when the taxi driver jammed the brake on my rollator again! They pushed the rollator lifted on to its front wheels and carried a big bag...
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waste not, want not 3: Tshirts to bags 1
Amazing the difference it makes when I have almost no pain from my elbow! Suddenly I feel lively and interested in things, and life is sending lots of interesting artists to research – excellent timing...
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going round and round in CYCLES
Lovely Robyn came to help me with some weeding and tidying yesterday – she used to have a mini plot on my allotment, so she is particularly easy to work with, as she understands that for me, everything...
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link to dwp denials info
apologies for less posts – i’ve got hyper- somnia and my hands ache really badly…very glad i won my DWP ESA appeal, please read this, think and sign the petition and if you have the spoons share the...
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