Maintaining artistic momentum through a daily arts practice.
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Artist Residencies
Watching the England Vs Panama game in a New Forest pub, England.
Travel notes
Travel tips for the intrepid traveller including how I learnt to love football.
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La Filature du Pont de Fer door ~ holding up a worker's rights poster from my woven artist book
One door closes
Reflecting on doors, entrances and exits, endings and new beginnings.
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Owl being gently held while being banded at the Hôpital Faune Sauvage.
Les Oiseaux
A journey with wildlife veterinarian Marie-Pierre Puech as she works to heal injured or orphaned birds to release them back into the wild.
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Ready to weave paper minuets ~ mini woven artist books
Minuet ~ le menuet
A workshop of mini artist books gave participants the opportunity to interweave visual sounds to create their own paper dance.
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My first day in the studio with screens which became the pages of my woven book and branches of heather.
Metamorphosis
A fitting tribute to the humble silk worm and its interrupted life cycle at La Filature artist residency.
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My favourite shuttered window (La Fenêtre)
Les Fenêtres
A tribute to the shuttered windows of Lasalle and its colourful streetscape.
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Silk industry posters - detail of first page of woven papers in artist book
Le Travail
The work we do. I’ve been thinking of that today as I wove strips of photocopied posters advertising the silk industry which dominated the Cévennes up until fifty or so years ago.
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Flags of paper bags hanging in the windows of la filiature.
Viva la Domestics!
Today was a day for tidying up in the studio. Tomorrow I will be joined by a choreographer from Portugal who I hope will bring another way of thinking through movement to this artist space.
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Two strikes lead up to the peel of church bells, Lasalle
Écoute
Today is le quatorze juillet, the 14th July. In Australia we call it Bastille Day (after the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution) but in France it is referred to as la fête nationale (national day) and as such is a public holiday.
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