My entry for A Book About Death: the Last Waltz - the 10 th anniversary of this project
Projects can take you places you never dreamed of. The A Book About Death project celebrates its tenth anniversary this September and my artworks have been in both the first (and possibly) the last of this projects exhibitions, as well as many in-between.
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Detail from the first of my postcards using an old torn up print, an envelope and another old ink blot on paper
When you haven’t got any new work made, try looking at your old work with new eyes. Recycle, reconfigure, renew.
Read MoreMaking paper is a very labour intensive process. So why make paper? Handmade paper can be used to embed concepts into your project, especially when it comes to environmental projects.
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Tidal Moon 2019
When one thing leads to another, experimentation can become a springboard to creating new works. Trusting in the process and listening to your materials is an intuitive process I use when making art.
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Recontextualising found objects
Sometimes different ways of seeing can create something new by just engaging in material play. When you get out of your head and into your hands, the materials ‘talk’ to you and find new ways of being.
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Vision Board (detail) - you can see I was preoccupied yesterday learning about how to be a good coach
You never stop learning. When the learnings seem insurmountable it’s good to be able to get support and encouragement, to do it in a group wherever possible. My first online 4 week course launched and I’m pumped!
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From the plane window - a blue sky portal
Blue sky dreaming. It is real and it can turn your ideas into reality. I believe everyone ic creative, but sometimes clouds and turbulence can get in the way. My creativity course helps break through the clouds into the blue skies again.
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Tara Dyson Holland with her skirt and the pieces cut up ready to pulp into paper.
Studio days are so precious, especially with collaborations between artists when you live so far from each other. There is a magical energy that happens when we get together to play with materials, lots of talking then ideas explode into action.
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Day 2 of my #5 day envelopeart challenge
The end of a creative week and the #5day envelopeart challenge which had people across the world using a humble envelope to connect with art and story sharing via social media.
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On the screen: orange hi-vis shirt pulp with white cotton pulp and flood-mud.
Experimenting is a process of discovery and that all starts in the studio. Turning up to work in the job of art, often feels like its unproductive and then suddenly your experiments propel you into new forms of art making.
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