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Issue One Now Online – Click on Issues and follow the link. Who we are, Where we come from…. Accepting Submissions for New Collection. The Empire is falling. The rats are leaving the sinking ship. Some of the ones from surrounding ships are leaving. As Benjamin Cook said earlier this week on Twitter, At this rate there’ll be no one left in the Met by the end of the week. Or something to that effect anyway.). Minus 9 Squared,. Regarding the Murdoch dynasty and News International. So, in honour, actually, ...
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Helen Shaddock: January 2015
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Saturday, 31 January 2015. The Means and the Instruments - Michael Mulvihill - Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. Last week artist Michael Mulvihill gave an artist talk and spoke about his current exhibition, The Means and the Instruments at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. At the weekend I visited the exhibition. The exhibition features a number of delicate pencil drawings based on the Vulcan XL319 aircraft. I am curious about how Michael's decided to position the indiv...
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Helen Shaddock: Tuesday's prints
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Tuesday, 4 August 2015. I've had another productive and fun day in the inking up etching room printing onto seaweed with liquorice allsorts. Here are a selection of the prints I made today. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Transformation whereby found materials are appropriated, re-appointed with new purposes, and sometimes combined with wholly handmade elements. This can also include working in response to ‘found’ sites or situations, be that within a gallery-based or a non-art context. Vital questio...
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Helen Shaddock: Filling the seaweed grid with prints
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Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Filling the seaweed grid with prints. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Transformation whereby found materials are appropriated, re-appointed with new purposes, and sometimes combined with wholly handmade elements. This can also include working in response to ‘found’ sites or situations, be that within a gallery-based or a non-art context. Http:/ www.helenshaddock.co.uk/. Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid. Glasgow International Artists' Bookfair. Newcastl...
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Helen Shaddock: June 2015
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Some thoughts on drawing from Antony Gormley. To mark the opening of Antony Gormley's Space Stations. Exhibition at The Hatton Gallery, Antony Gormley gave a wonderful talk about drawing. His unscripted rambling about drawing was eloquent and thoughtful, and made for an insightful introduction to the exhibition. Here are a few statements, questions and thoughts raised in the lecture. Drawing is the way we inhabit an imagined world. There is no hiding in drawing. Drawing is tuning in.
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Helen Shaddock: Shades of grey
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Saturday, 1 August 2015. I am continuing to print on pieces of nori, with my intention being to cover a whole sheet with a grid of printed nori. I have no set composition at this stage, but am focusing on individual elements which will later be shifted about in order to create a whole. The patterns on the nori vary from piece to piece, sometimes using a range of shape of stamps on one sheet, and at other times using just one stamp. Love it. :-). 3 August 2015 at 02:57. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Helen Shaddock: Gridded seaweed
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Friday, 7 August 2015. Currently they are placed in a grid with no specific reason why one piece is next to the another, other than that they were printed, left to dry, and moved from the print room into the studio at a similar time. Therefore I want to move the pieces around within the grid themselves, forming different relationships between them and seeing the arrangement as a composition. I also want to try mixing the laser cut seaweed amongst the printed seaweed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Helen Shaddock: Wednesday's prints
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Wednesday, 5 August 2015. After another day in the print room I have now printed onto over 121 pieces of seaweed, and therefore have enough to form a grid on the large piece of fabric that I have. It may be that I do not attach the seaweed to the fabric, but may pin the sheets directly onto the wall or lay them on the floor, but now I think I have enough to test out the options with. I am now going to try to laser cut seaweed and engrave different surfaces with the patterns from the prints on seaweed.
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Helen Shaddock: Laser cutting seaweed and rice paper
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Thursday, 6 August 2015. Laser cutting seaweed and rice paper. I have been using the laser cutter to engrave and cut seaweed and rice paper. I scanned the prints that I made on white paper, and then did some editing in Photoshop to create the file for the laser cutter. My initial experiment was to engrave seaweed, which had the affect of creating what seemed like a lighter tone of green in the places where the laser had engraved it. It wasn't as I had imagined, and smelled horrid! Transformation whereby ...
