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Yesterday Frankfurt put on a really neat event for Sqeze’s birthday It started at 7 p.m. and went on until 2 a.m. In fact it is an annual event and just happened to fall on the 24th April this year. 47 museums in and around Frankfurt open up their doors and put on special [...] Wangechi Mutu has been named the Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year for 2010. She is Kenyan born, but now lives and works in New York. Her work is mostly collages made from a variety of media, including conventional fashion and lifestyle glossies, pornography, and automobile and motorcycle magazines. Her main motif revolves around the female [...] Sorry about the title – it’s a bit naff imho, but that is what the Guardian chose to title the gallery of photos showing the work of inmates in Her Majesty’s Prisons. You can see the finished quilt ‘Wandsworth Quilt’ made by inmates at HMP Wandsworth that was produced on commission for the V&A Exhibition Quilts [...] I have to admit that I wasn’t quite sure what all the fuss was about when McQueen’s death last month hit the headlines. He wasn’t actually on my radar, although I wasn’t completely unaware of him. A little research showed that he certainly designed some wonderful fashions. But when I saw this gallery of images on the [...] Can’t seem to stop buying more books. These are my latest two purchases. I already have one book by Jennie Rayment about creating texture by various folding techniques. After finding the table of contents and some of the photos on a web site I decided that there was enough new stuff in this book to make [...] I was browsing the Guardian newspaper website and came across this set of truly amazing images. Entitled Hiding in the City the artworks show the Chinese artist Lui Bolin camouflaged against city locations in China and the UK. I really had to look quite hard to find him in the final image of [...] I’ve been doing some design sketches and experimenting with ideas for my final assessment piece for my C&Gs. Marie, my tutor, had this to say about Reflections This is the standard of work you have been aiming for, now you have reached a level that you can build on to become the practitioner you hoped that you [...] Having made my one dolly I got quite interested in the idea of making more. I’m a bit of a collector/gatherer of ideas and not one of those who can work in a series for years on end perfecting one theme. So of course I started looking for more information on doll making. My C&G tutor [...] Today I really did do everything that has to be done to get my submission for the CHF Award into the post. I was even able to leave my studio in the cellar and sit in the garden to put the finishing touches to my blog on paper. I’ve felt uncomfortable all the time with the [...] My niece Katie suggested I might like to look at the work of the artist Claire Coles. I hadn’t heard of her, but liked what I saw on her website. You would think that she was working in fabric if you didn’t know it [...] |
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