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Artist Research
For the Love of God. Is an artist well known for her works of body art, particularly in the manner of translating everyday bodily activities such as eating sleeping and bathing into her art. As the stars go by (series). Using stitch as a marker of time, considering our oblique relationship to the past, present, and future, and ways to forge a relationship with this shifting terrain. Merten see’s the stitch as an orientation marker, a way of siting where one has been and where one is going. In previous se...
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Awaiting Transition
The idea of the suitcase highlights. Awaiting transition is a life long project that started in December. 2006, the intention is to continually. Pack a bag every time. It has been with personal reflection on awaiting transition that i have come to remember when i was around the age of 6 i continuously. The intention is to store the bags up, as it may take a while to collect a significant number before they are exhibited, and i have also decided to create a video documentation of myself packing the bag an...
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Bibliography
Atterbury. P. and Kay. H. 2005. The Wedding 150 Years. David and Charles Limited. Cincinnati. Barnett. P. 1999. Texture and Memory. The Poetics of Cloth. Crafts Council. London. Barthes. R. 1977. Image Music Text. Fontana Press. Great Britain. Dickhoff. W. 1988. Rosemarie Trockle. Kunstthalle basel. London. Earnshaw. P. 1991. Lace in Fashion from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Gorse Publications. Guildford. Evanz-Wentz. W.Y. 1960. The Tibetan Book Of the Dead. Phiadon Press. London. Steiner...
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Bloom
Project Bloom at the Crown Royal Hotel in Brussels. Went on until i finally thought about the use of light and the ability of creating an experience the audience could encounter. Experimentation. Metallic paint were explored with various imagery until finally a petal explosion where investigated to create a subtle but intriguing light experience. i wanted the image to be minimal as not to over power the experience created by the paint. The work is an experience an encounter into an illusionary. During th...
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Collaboration
After a short interlude of connection issues, personal life of the medium getting in the way, I have once again made contact and he has finally agreed to do the reading for one of my close friends, he has also requested a lock of hair so I will forward the written text and hair to him through the post. The medium responded with certain elements that clarified the reserach undertaken, especially in the field of medium and the elements it contains as well as being informative about his own experience, whic...
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Consciousness Continued
It has been decided that 25 square drawings all individual; all unique. Spiritual immortality is the unending existence of a person from a nonphysical source such as a soul. It is a belief that is expressed in nearly every religious tradition. In both Western and Eastern religions, the spirit is an energy or force that transcends the mortal shell, and returns to either the heavens or the cycle of life, directly or indirectly depending on the tradition. Photographs by Simon Cruickshank. Thinking at the mo...
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Conscious Void
Tuesday 4 December at The Upstairs Gallery of The City Gallery 6.30pm-8pm. Get your free limi. Ted edition audio CD! The City Gallery, Leicester. 4 December - 8 December 2007. PREVIEW Tuesday 4 December 6.30pm- 8pm. MA Fine Art Nottingham Trent University graduat. Eston and Lucy Stevens are collabora. Or a five- day exhibition at. The Upstairs Gallery of The City Gallery to combine traditional textiles with binaural audio technology. Using the Upstairs Gallery o. Lly for the site. Design of Conscious Void.
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Cat Preston CV
2007 MA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design , Nottingham. 2006 First Class BA Honours Decorative Arts, Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design, Nottingham. 2008 Flower Power, The Beetroot Tree Gallery, Draycott, Derbyshire. 2008 Allotments, Long Eaton Town Hall, Nottinghamshire. 2007 Allotments, Harrington Mill Studies, Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire. 2007 Conscious Void, Upstairs Gallery, The City Gallery, Leicester. 2007 Nottingham Castle Annual Open, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.
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Video Editing
An introduction to Adobe premiere and features available for editing movies. There are 25 frames per second. When filming allow the film to roll a bit longer as not to disrupt the time code which can be useful when capturing a lot of footage onto the system, it also allows for the set time code to be set within the program. Experimentation with Adobe premiere were developed with a range of still images taken from the video unknown and drawn images of consciousness continued, this created a stop motion an...
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Final Letters
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog was originally developed as a Reflective Journal as part of an MA Fine Art degree at Nottingham Trent University, it is now an on going journal of art work created during and after the MA. View my complete profile. Travel template. Powered by Blogger.
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Flower Power
A late spring exhibition at the Beetroot Tree Gallery, Draycott, Derbyshire. Exhibition dates: 26 April-8 June 08. Be transformed into an idyllic 'GARDEN' bringing the outdoors in. We require submissions from artists (any media) working within a 'floral' theme to accompany an environment of astro turf, potted plants, hanging baskets and other colourful foliage to celebrate late springtime in the UK. Work must be delivered in week 15-20 April 08. All work shown on a 'sale or return' basis. This blog was o...
