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creative collective

Thank you Rishi for organising creative collective! Have a read about it here.

'Twenty-seven county artists, aged between 18 and 25, have launched an exhibition showcasing their work at the Jam Factory in Park End Street. The exhibition, Home, Again is the third set up by Oxford-based Creative Collective, the brainchild of artist and photographer Rishi Mullett-Sadones..... '    rest of article here

James Chen-Wishart, with his work Oarfish

and me looking like a ten year old, haha:

Photos from exhibition.. I stress these are mainly phone photos so they're bad quality, I couldn't put all photos up, so not everybody's work is here.

cat organ

"A cat organ or cat piano (Katzenklavier in German) is a musical instrument which consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that cats cry out in pain when a key is pressed. The cats would be arranged according to the natural tone of their voices."



stornoway t-shirts!

 

In the summer my designs (above) got put on the stornoway

t-shirt and website shop banner, have a look here!

harbours and brains

 

hylophobia! (Fear of forests)- trees and nibbling animals taking over hundreds of brains

three pictures from my sea and sky project:

 

summer ends, course begins and its already november

 

              Here I present you with my partridge, Maureen. In the summer, around the month of august, sculptor &        ex-taxidermist Martin Hayward-Harris taught me how to preserve a bird. This proved very tricky

and rewarding, particularly scraping the muscle and fat off. For my 'line project' she was really fun to

draw from, and I can't wait to taxidermy and draw all sorts of interesting animals some time soon.

 St.Ives 

  

fun sand

                                                            Baby finally blooms some fluff

               

            
                                                          interesting objects of the day:
                                                                       i) kissing candles
                                                                       ii) chicken & it's beloved egg
           

                                    The holiday land of Mablethorpe: some dusty donkeys and a Very Mystic Peg.

phone photos from holiday and home

Some photos from Slovenia and Croatia! The two night ones are from Škofja Loka

rectangular sheep

60's, 70's decor 

When we  were in Croatia a friend of ours lent his holiday flat that has been rarely used since the 70's. We found that everything from the bedlinen to the carpet were dated artifacts and were either brown, orange, mustard of moss green in colour. I enjoyed the naff-feel of it all and am sad to say that he's planning to refurbish. Here are a few examples..

                                              

                               

deformed peach

Roadside Ratty

             John Buckley's (sculptor) sculpture in his garden. What is extra special about this are the bees that enter in the

                eye socket,  make honey inside and let it drip from below. He even makes pots of honey from this sculpture!

My mum's friend Magda has her friend Marko Jakše's paintings in her house.

They're really big and I really like them, particularly the bottom one.

 Postcards in scribbler: I find these ones quite funny, but I forgot to see the name of the person who did them.