Under construction. Kind of.

So! I finished my degree yesterday, pretty neat huh? This means I’ll have more time to do stuff like writing on here- “huzzah!” I hear you cry! Saying that, I need to actually do some creative stuff in order to post here, so maybe normality will be maintained.

Here‘s the website to our degree show. Don’t ask about the name, it’s a sore subject amongst us.

I’m going to try and update the look of the blog anyways- notice the pussy cat at the top? And I’ve updated the About page, although I don’t know how to link it to the main page yet (I swear my intelligence has gone down since going to uni). And I wanna put a new piccy of myself up too.

Anyway, here’s another photo from my final major project from the sub series ‘Dear G’-

The whole project is based around 3 “love” letters that were sent to me anonymously. I basically responded to their content with my camera and using a few other alternative processes which ended being an eclectic mix of images. I eventually made these into 3 separate black and white zines kept together by a handmade envelope, and a photobook which brought together all of the photographs from the final edits to create a fabricated story. It’s pretty awesome, I have to say. I’m considering selling them at some point, so if anyone fancies one let me know!

Postcard images

We have to choose a postcard image for the final degree show by Friday. Joy. It would help me if any of you guys out there reading this could tell me what’s your’s favourite from these 3-

All good fun in publishing land

My work is featured in this here magazine-

www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/354213

Free download is available!

I <3 scanning

Tonight I’m taking it easy by doing some scanning. I went home briefly this week to go to the dentist, and went through the bag my dad had when he got run over, poignant stuff!

Check out the drumsticks- pretty odd huh? Bah dum tsssh

 

Messing around with sunprints

This is my 100th post! Huzzah!

Oh lordy

I’ve forgotten to mention the arty farty things from my London trip last week! Basically my friend knows a person who knows some other people who work at the Hayward Gallery, and we got free tickets to see Jeremy Deller and David Shrigley! I don’t think there’s anyone in England who hasn’t seen either of these artists work in shops, on the underground etc. So anyways, here’s my favourite pieces from each show-

I’d never seen Jeremy Deller’s work before, so I suppose a retrospective of his work is a good start. He’s very much a collaborative artist, doing demonstrations and reenactments with huge groups of people.

This is from his work with the Manic Street Preachers. I like the look of this wall very much.

And this is a rejected commission for the cover of the London Underground tube map. He’s a cyclist you see.

I gave an ex boyfriend a David Shrigley post card for his birthday, completely oblivious that it was anything to do with him. It was an awesome card.

This dog is used on the advertisement for the exhibition, and is surprisingly small in real life, as you can see.

This piece tickled me the most.

So there you go, a completely pointless uninformative post about these two artists.

Freakin’ out

Here’s a quick update of my creative endeavours over the past week or so-

I’ve been to two gigs recently for my birthday; The Magnetic Fields and Graham Coxon. If you’ve not heard of these people then you should check them out because they are brilliant and stuff. I met a lovely couple at TMF gig; I found myself in a small box with 3 other people in the Royal Festival Hall, which turned out to be a pretty neat way of meeting new like minded people. I’ve been listening to songs on Daniel’s (apologies if I remembered his name wrong, I was very tired that night!) 1 Fab Song A Day blog, and also checking out his Photo Projects Tumblr. So yes, that was a very fun evening indeed. Whilst I was at the gig Charlie’s friend Matt told me about a job going at the school he works at, so I’m going to apply even though I know I wont get it. Why not eh?

This sunday I will be doing my first open mic night at our local pub. I’ll probably sing Cat Powers version of Sea of Love because it’s the only song I know how to play well enough to perform in front of people. I’ll try and get some kind of recording of it, like one of those video thingys or something. My aim after this is to try and learn more songs so I can play a different song each time I go. I will of course be attempting a Magnetic Fields song and maybe even a Coxon song too. I also have a few others that need a bit more practice- Autumn Shade by The Vines, Ocean by The Velvet Underground and Oh Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel. I’ll have my own cover album in no time!

My dissertation has been handed in- huzzah! But now I have to slog on with my practical project, so expect more enigmatic photo posts! Off I go into the real world again…

Oh! Also check out this lady because she’s funny- Gemma Correll