Strength
In transparency
Art is an all encompassing term, that reflects my entire being.
From my interior environment to my work as an educator, Art has the power to transform, to raise aspirations and unite. Through the use of visual processes, analogue and digital techniques, along with audio and animation, my practice seeks to explore the intersecting aspects of the Arts to enhance everyday experiences and encourage overall transparency.
“Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art-and in criticism today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.”
― Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Malcolm Gladwell
“Transparency is the idea that people’s behavior and demeanor—the way they represent themselves on the outside—provides an authentic and reliable window into the way they feel on the inside.”
Simone de Beauvoir
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
wolfgang von goethe
“All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.”
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Art has the power to unite.
Like music, art is a universal language that can be interpreted and understood by all.
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Logistical Thinking
I decided to move to bigger pieces of fabric and in doing so, needed a bigger preparation area to apply the chemicals. My kitchen table is a raw piece of wood which I had a glass sheet made for the top. I figured this would be the perfect spot to lay everything once it was…
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Expanding the Wainwrights
This week I became curious about the many areas Wainwright had explored and written about, outside of the Lake District Park. Ingleborough is best known as one of the famous Yorkshire Three Peaks, which Wainwright beautifully described as “the finest of all, a classic”. I didn’t need any further convincing, so I booked a train…
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Unit 3 Assessment – Curating my blog
When I entered onto the MA Fine Art Digital programme back in 2022, I had no prior formal art training and was anxious to say the least. I considered myself a multi-disciplinary artist, and to a large degree, I still am. My initial post certainly set the tone for what was to come.. Despite any…
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Changing Places
A few days ago I was daydreaming about the idea of hanging up some of my cyanotypes in a tree. I was curious to see how it would look, how others may respond and how it might somehow change the feeling of my work. I took about half a dozen smaller fabric cyanotypes along with…
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