Making a Cardboard Afternoon Tea Set

Shown above are some photos which give you an inclination of the carnage that took over my room while I worked on this project. Carboard is not a friendly material, as my carpet and irritated palms can attest to, and it takes some wrestling to get it to behave in any useful or attractive way. …

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Raw Material

On the 7th of October 2020, my flat, occupation five students, went into self-imposed isolation after one of my flatmates, Molly, tested positive for Coronavirus. Over the next two days we received a total of 11 cardboard boxes, each filled to the brim with snacks, cooking materials and ingredients. While well-appreciated, after we had put …

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TOUCH ME (update)

27/09/20 07:09am 27/09/20 14:51pm 28/09/20 00:37am 30/09/20 13:24pm 05/10/20 17:55pm   Upon my last check of TOUCH ME, pictured above, I discovered that the rain had washed away my original print, leaving only faint black fingerprints on the board. The ink pad was gone, along with the tags that had kept it in place, and …

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Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s (City Art Centre)

Visited 06/10/20. One room exhibition in the basement of City Art Centre. Varied collection (although almost all 2D work) and I enjoyed looking around. One annoying attendee playing a loud game on her phone. Family of gingers also in attendance. https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/bright-shadows-scottish-art-1920s ‘Cecile Walton at Crianlarich’, Eric Harold Macbeth Robertson. Oil on canvas, 1920. This piece …

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City Art Centre at 40: Highlights from the City’s Art Collection

Visited 06/10/30 at around 2pm. Small exhibit (one room), not much relating to my interests but still enjoyed the visit. https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/city-art-centre-40 ‘Rocks, St Mary’s, Scilly Isles’, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. Oil on board, 1953. Artist a friend of Barbara Hepworth. Surrealist natural forms/abstraction. Like smoothness and weird landscape. ‘Poppies’, George Henry. Oil on canvas, 1891. Oriental inspiration. …

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Views of Edinburgh at City Art Centre

‘National Gallery and Castle, Edinburgh’, Nicol Laidlaw. Etching on paper, 1925. Shown in the exhibition ‘Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920’s’. “The Scottish National War Memorial was the most significant public art project to take place in Scotland in the 1920s. Designed by the architect Robert Lorimer, and located within the precincts of Edinburgh …

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Schrödinger’s Fart

Schrödinger’s Fart. I am very interested in the DADA way of thinking, in both art practice and life, humour, spontaneity and a divergence from the norm/a lack of “class” are very important to me. I particularly enjoy distributing my pieces myself, and am a big fan of public art, ephemera and performance. With this postcard …

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TOUCH ME (Day 1)

TOUCH ME, a public postcard. One of the most interesting parts of a postcard, in my opinion, is that it is a platform for connection and relationship. The tactile nature of a postcard lends itself to an intimacy between its sender and recipient, the effort of sending a postcard itself creates the implication of closeness …

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South College Street, Edinburgh

  For my first postcard I decided to expand on work from my FMP at Foundation, ‘Post’. I was interested in the materiality of a postcard, as it is an object which is meant to be touched, felt, something which has been undermined in this project by the nature of the coronavirus pandemic and our …

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