For centuries, artists have turned to their work to address feelings of anger, confusion, fear, sadness, hope and love. While no painting, photograph or object can ever mend the holes that materialize in our hearts, the following artworks address loss in ways that attempt to begin the healing process, however long it may take.” Priccila […]

Tutorial. Black holes.

Tutorial with Post Graduation Student BA (hons) Fine art. Today’s tutorial was with a different student who previously studied at Newcastle college. We discussed idea of the installation that had football’s made into cancers. I imagine there being a few. The number could be significant. The idea of the goal representing the line between birth […]

Tutorial

Tutorial with post graduate BA (hons) Fine art student. We discusses the Wonder Woman theme and my mother’s cancer. The idea of the cancer being the size of a football. After reading a blog about a woman’s grief after losing her mother. She expressed the feeling of an empty space inside. When you lose someone […]

Tutorial (Lecturer)

Outcomes To make some videos, monologues to screen. Not in character, sharing personal experiences. Using this as a starting point. Points of investigation. “There Is No Such Thing as Conversation. It Is an Illusion. There Are Intersecting Monologues, That Is All” Rebecca West. https://www.google.com/amp/s/quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/29/mono/amp/?source=images

Ideas: No way of getting a goal!

Greyson Perry’s teddy is God.

I came to the idea that Wonder Woman was a comfort blanket in regards to the fantasy character having been created in World War II to fight the nazi’s. Shortly after I saw a video clip of Greyson Perry who was being interviewed on the ITV program ‘This morning’. I loved that he said he […]

‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’

I went to see Damien Hirst’s ‘shark’ a few weeks ago at the Hancock museum. There were the usual comments of ‘not getting it’, ‘is it really art?’ etc I’d seen his show many years ago at the Tate modem and I can honestly say it’s the only exhibition I have ever seen that stayed […]

Would you like to become a famous artist?

MFA Graduate tutorial

Tutorial with M.FA. Graduate I discussed my practice so far and talked about marrying together my Wonder woman themes and my mother’s cancer. Wondering if I could find the simplicity in this idea. I boiled down to the time at which my mother died of cancer I was fully into teaching martial arts, Kung fu,Self […]

Margaret Harrison

Margaret Harrison uses irony in her feminist art work. Her first ever exhibition in 1971 was shut down by the police, because it was said to be pornographic. In one piece she portrayed Hue Hefna as a naked bunny girl and captain America with his breasts showing. Much of her works over the years have […]