Inspiration – Kateryna Snizhko ‘I need your help. Florina’ 2018

I found Snizhko’s work whilst recently researching into mixed media art pieces online. She is a Ukranian artists working with sound and visuals to create pieces that are atmospheric and indulging for the viewer. ‘I need your help. Florina‘ is made up of 100 small paper notes found on the streets across different countries, all …

Inspiration – Teresa Eng ‘China Dream’ 2019

Eng is a Canadian photographer known for her exploration of identity, specifically in her recent project ‘China Dream‘ which looks at the fractured identity of second generation Chinese citizens. Her work also has a key focus on the ‘rapid cycle’ of destruction and construction in modern China. The series alludes to her struggle with her …

Volunteering at Fabrica – Conclusion

I am very appreciative and glad for my time at Fabrica this summer as I feel it’s added a valuable insight to how galleries work and allowed me to engage with the public on a more intimate level. I love the exhibition I was volunteering at as it was purely interactive, something I was initially …

Exhibition – Olafur Eliasson: ‘In Real Life’ at Tate Modern

Copied from Tate Catalogue: ‘This exhibition brings together over 40 works of art made between 1990 and today by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Born in 1967, Eliasson has created a broad body of work that includes immersive installations, sculptures, photography and paintings. The materials he uses range from moss, glacial melt-water and fog, to light …

Volunteering at Fabrica – Annis Joslin

This week I was volunteering in the final residency of the show, led by Annis Joslin. Her work is described on her website as “seeking to explore lived experience through a reflective, participatory process encouraging dialogue and freedom to play. She uses different approaches to generate material, including drawing, animation, photography, performance and story-telling to create lens-based digital …

Volunteering at Fabrica – Jo Offer

This week Jo Offer, senior lecturer of inclusive arts at Brighton university was in residency.  She is described by the university as being “avisual artist and designer who’s practice and research is concerned with communication, collaboration and engagement and how inclusive arts strategies can connect people from diverse backgrounds.”  The room differed quite a bit from …

Volunteering at Fabrica – Sara Dare

I am currently volunteering over summer at Fabrica gallery during their July/August residency. What’s exciting about this exhibition is that its changing every two weeks, bringing in a new artist to takeover, thus allowing myself as a volunteer, and the public, to experience new art very often. the exhibition this year is named ‘Putting Ourselves …

Interview with Photographer Lucy Williams on her personal project ‘Dad with Dementia’ (2019)

I reached out to Lucy after stumbling across her work when exploring dementia and photography online and was gripped by her imagery. In the past I have made work concerning my grandmother and the effect her dementia had on herself and the rest of my family. I appreciate Lucy’s work as she illustrates the ability …

Book Review – Grayson Perry, Portrait of the Artist as a Young girl (2006) by Grayson Perry & Wendy Jones

I have always admired Perry’s work and had never really looked in depth at his past or how he came to be who he is today. I found the book an essential part in giving me his background and providing a context to his work which I now feel I understand better. I think this …

Interview with National Geographic Photo Editor, Julia Andrews

In my practise, I am interested and engaged by the spectrum of the photographic field (documentary, archival, commercial etc), so thought it apt to try and get in contact with someone in a field I had never considered or really thought about. Julia is the national geographic photo editor and archivist. We conducted the interview …

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