Category: Blog
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Tetley Workshop – Dancing Stick People
This workshop was in response to Simeon Barclay: Bus2Move, which is the current exhibition at The Tetley. The exhibition explores the relationships between performance, installation, costume display, stage design, sculpture and props. For my workshop the idea was to make stick people out of pipe cleaners, straws and beads, so that they were movable. Using a…
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Kirkgate Market – Halloween
I have been at Kirkgate Leeds Market twice in the last week, working with children on marvellous Halloween creations. Firstly on the Saturday for Same Difference Arts making Halloween monsters out of paper, and then on Tuesday helping with Playful Anywhere with the crafts. Saturday Halloween Monsters – the first photo are the prototypes I…
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The Story of a Lost Toy – Dog portraits
As part of my recent exhibition, The Tennis Ball, at Union Coffee House, I held a dog friendly viewing. I took portraits of the wonderful hounds, and here they are. We only had three dogs – Narla, Evie, and Mickey – but they were wonderful models, and will pose for a treat.
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Exhibition – The Story of a Lost Toy
click on the image above to find out more about the event On 29th September until 13th October, I will be showing the culmination of a year of collecting tennis balls. Images of discarded and destroyed tennis balls that is! Hosted at the Union Coffee House, we will be holding a one off special dog…
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Kirkgate Market – Carnival Masks and Hummingbirds
This is my second drop in workshop at Kirkgate Market in Leeds (organised by Same Difference Arts), after leading one making Pop-Up Puppets in Easter earlier this year. As before, I got to work alongside Miranda Johnson, who is a fabulous face painter, really approachable and I fully recommend her. I chose to do two simple…
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Personal Diary: Talk about illness
I recorded this piece so you can hear how my thoughts sound as I write them down*. Sometimes the silence is deafening. Nobody wants to talk about illness. Nobody wants to hear it. That silence lives inside your head. ‘Where do I turn? How do I fix this? Why is it happening?’ I read the…