Mx.D.P
XD artist, writer, and digital curator.
Their work: Climate Chaos Cruise App, KindPinkNet, and The Abstracted Materialism Manifesto, reflects a commitment to building creative, resilient communities that can withstand geo-political climate chaos.
To envision: an inclusive society founded on creative kindness using the universal language of art.
Category: Art Film
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Synthetic Intelligence (SI) is becoming the hot topic in academic and technological chat. Both create ‘intelligent’ systems, their philosophical underpinnings, methodological approaches, and ultimate objectives diverge. The AI we know and love refers to the development of computational systems capable of performing tasks that mimic human cognitive abilities, such as…
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Rhagymadrodd – Beth yw’r Celfyddydau Digidol Mae’r celfyddydau digidol yn cwmpasu amrywiaeth o ddisgyblaethau sy’n defnyddio technolegau digidol i greu, trin a chyflwyno gweithiau artistig. Dyma drosolwg ehangach o brif arferion y celfyddydau digidol, gan gynnwys technolegau a llwyfannau sy’n dod i’r amlwg: Paentio Digidol Gan ddefnyddio meddalwedd ac offer digidol megis tabledi a stylusau,…
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Introduction – What is Digital Arts Digital arts encompass diverse disciplines that leverage digital technologies to create, manipulate, and present artistic works. Here’s an expanded overview of key digital arts practices, including emerging technologies and platforms: Digital PaintingUsing software and digital tools such as tablets and styluses, artists create paintings that mimic or extend traditional…
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I’m currently taking a six-month course at NODE in Berlin. It’s online and practice-based… I’m trying to hone the digital aspects of the global creative network… The PhD proposal is in. I’ve painted a collaboration piece, I’d like to do more of that… I’m planning an Art trip to Scotland and Northern Ireland. In August…
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What is graduation? Is it an end or a begining? all I know is the more I know the less I know I know… …and thats just fine…
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Using Autoethnographic Abstracted Materialism, 2050:2100 weaponises art and collaboration to resist the void and establish a network of Creative Kindness. My work is driven by the impending Geopolitical Climate chaos of biome degradation, resource scarcity, mass migration and societal collapse. Using up precious resources, I asked A.I. when the Earth would become uninhabitable: ‘Predicting an…
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Well I never did find my sundress, but I did find a roll of red felt and thousands of rhinestones so the costume is coming along a treat! Rhinestones, have become a staple in the worlds of fashion, costume design, and decorative arts. Yet, behind the sparkle lies a set of environmental concerns that no…
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I can’t find my sundress, I have a feeling it was already donated to charity long ago. For me it represented gender dysphoria and the worlds growing clothes mountain. What am I to make my dick and boobs out of? What I did find buried in my studio instead was some tribal belly dancing costumes…
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First a quick run down of basic terms: LLM (Large Language Model)A Large Language Model is a type of AI trained on huge amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like language. Think of it like a super-smart-arse. It can write essays, answer questions, summarise information, and even hold conversations. GPT-4 and Gemini are…
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Using Autoethnographic Abstracted Materialism, 2050:2100 weaponises art and collaboration to resist the void of climate chaos and establish a network of Creative Kindness. This work is driven by the impending Geopolitical Climate chaos of biome degradation, resource scarcity, mass migration and societal collapse. Using up precious resources, I asked A.I. when the Earth would become…
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Trigger warning: Flashing images, themes of Climate Chaos, War, Death, Global Anihilation, Sex… sadly no rock and roll… some funky music though… A Massive Amount of Community Art Activism and fish… An Agender Penguin, a Non-binary Polar Bear and a Nasty Oily Orca… and a lot of Art… nice… https://youtu.be/dHpbdGRtDKk?si=HUTOS8h3SXGptsHl
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This will be an ongoing blog post about the Queer Curation course with the NODE Center in Berlin – sponsored by the SU- UAL. Wednesday 7th May. I’ve just had the first session of my NODE curation course on Zoom. I am in tears, it was so lovely. 23 people from around the world all…
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I always wondered what it would have been like to live in Germany during the first part of the 1930s. I lived in a hotel in Berlin for a few years until the Wall came down. I still have a bit of it in a plastic bag somewhere in the studio. Berlin changed before/during/after the…
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Does thinking about your art process interfere with that process? …Maybe, but its always facinating to understand why… Like a reveal… Do artists really love to talk about their process? You’d think so; it’s de rigueur in art academia and the white cube blurb. We dissect it, analyse it, share it on social media, and…
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This was very much a working Tutorial, and after our situational awareness catch-up, we got down to the business of the grad show. We discussed the current state of trans politics and how that affects my art practice, my future PhD, its associated art/network, and myself personally. First, you are what you are; none of…
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This workshop is designed for public art, creative connection and representation. It is available for anyone to run: The performance: Pink is made from many colours, including baby blue, to represent kindness and connection and black is an historic representation and pigment development of heteronormative colonial oppressive power structures. That pink can overcome the non-reflective…
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You can’t have a 🐓 wearing a dress, claiming to be a woman and with the right to use a ladies toilet!!! Really? Do you measure 🐓’s in the gents or muffs in the ladies… If someone asked to see my muff when using the loo I would punch the f*cker out! Come on it’s…
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My sketchbook exploration of 2050:2100 is going well. My physical pain is not going well; my sciatica has switched legs. How the f*ck does it do that!!! Thankfully, after years of being a long-haul airline pilot and high-altitude mountaineer, I can fall asleep anywhere… sadly I still wake up in pain; it’s not helping my…
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I got an email today. You know, the kind that makes your heart skip before you’ve even opened it. I was shortlisted; there were three places, and I was number 4! If you are confused and think this is the NTU PhD, no, this is an opportunity for an online course paid for by the…
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This is the title for my new body of work that I hope to show at the Grad show. I’m collecting all my supplies of black and pink materials to make the work. The Sketch Book. I am testing my ideas before I go big… its going well so far… the music is a collaberation…
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Basically, the Earth is F*ck. I can categorically say that after 3 years of reading scientific data. I was talking to a climate change student last night, and their university offers them mental health counselling as part of their course; it’s that grim. Mass Migration, Resource scarcity, Unpredictable climate chaos, and climate breakdown. But before…
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I had a great conversation with JK at the low-res about my plan for the grad show. It was well thought out, used the durational artwork Identity Flags 2024-, incorporated the inspiration of the Leigh Bowery exhibition… I love a costume… especially a naughty one… It faced out to the world… Then I came home…
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When a friend said how remarkable I am doing and how I manage to land on my feet when faced with challenging setbacks… I replied instantly… I don’t see them as setbacks but as an opportunity for a new adventure… For the first time since my temporal turn, I thought I was really excited about…
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It’s been another tough week. When the going gets tough… the tough get going. It is Sunday, I am bloody exhausted… Monday – was hard. Registering Dwain’s death, I knew it would be painful; my son Eddie went with me and watching his face was difficult… he was shocked when I had to pay by…
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Well, I was chatting to my daughter about grief; it’s not easy, is it? Grief is like layers of an onion; you peel one off, and there is more underneath, raw and smelly, making your eyes water. I’m not sure I like onions… Gwyl Cariad is in its final week, and lots is going on.…
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The streets of Aberystwyth are alive with art, music, and community spirit as Gŵyl Cariad pilot festival transforms the Aberyswyth seaside town into a canvas of creativity. All though I am MIA I have been following the action and getting regular sit reps! As the first week draws to a close, the festival has already…
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What started as an idea to link creatives of the world to battle climate chaos, to give access to artists that would otherwise be marginalised and to make ‘Cool Shit Happen!’ Gwyl Cariad the ‘pilot’ festival is about to kick off! This week is installation week, and it’s been amazing watching the enthusiasm and excitement…
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Coming Out: When Gender Finally Makes Sense I’ve spent nearly six decades being called “she.” Six decades of checking the “F” box on forms. Six decades of being someone’s daughter, sister, wife, and mother. Six decades of thinking there was something wrong with those other feminine women. Me trying to perform feminity, but looking in…
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Well, it exists. It’s not up and running yet; tomorrow will be a test day. It took until mid-afternoon to find the top of the tripod connector…. After a lot of swearing, I remembered I’d used it on the 360 camera for the ‘Happens’ transmission… My tech assisted in taking my picture – one I…
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The more I work on this piece, the more I love it. I’m on Red Notice at the moment, and nothing is working body-wise, so obviously, it is time to make an animation! Back irla (in real life art), the collage has 2 of the fluorescent paint coats out of the recommended 3, and as…
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Gender dysphoria is a funny old thing. You never know when it’s going to come and f*ck with you! When I first came out as non-binary I had mixed reactions from those I care about. I think most queer folks experience that when they come out. The overwhelming take was, well you are the same…
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I thought I’d reflect on the Miro feedback, I will listen to the what worked for me later… (with a box of tissues) Reading the Miro comments was fascinating because some of you understood my practice, and some didn’t! This means that, in real terms, I haven’t fully explained it. That’s pretty important for me!…
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I am writing this on my new iPad with a keyboard. I don’t like buying new tech; it’s not good for the planet, but it seems it is good for me. When my heart stalls, my touch screen doesn’t work… it thinks I am dead. Managing my enviroment is a day to day struggle. This…
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Learning Outcome 1: Where did this start? What happened? Where are we going?… I started in unit one with this diagram, and I’ve circled in red the areas that have changed. I acknowledged in the first unit assessment that my practice would change. My Art Practice is The Network. A network is rarely fixed; it…
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Walton (2024) asks ‘Is AI Art Less Carbon Intensive Than Human Art?’ They are looking at a paper by Tomlinson et al. (2024) that proposes that the carbon emissions of image and copy production are lower when we use ai opposed to when a human creates it. Already in this blog, I have done what…
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As always, it was a productive combination of discussion with liberal amounts of questions and answers. Art, for me, in the last 4 years has been a constant stream of surprises of self-discovery and unexpected outcomes. Nonetheless, I am now starting to see Art as some form of nonlinear energy transfer, a Schrödinger like theorum.…
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These are reels to introduce Climate Week 2024. The Welsh Assembly are putting together a strategy for Wales on how we can ‘adapt’ to climate change. 5-day virtual conference https://www.climateweek.gov.wales/EN/pages/Virtual_Conference_2024 The target audience for the conference is climate stakeholders, public sector, industry and business networks and third sector organisation – that’s us at Big Wave…
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Over the next few weeks, my art practice will look like a never-ending stream of reel-making for the Wales Climate Virtual Conference, digital marketing course in London, funding proposals, spreadsheets, meetings, report writing, sorting out camera tech et al. My art practice is The Network. To make an art network work, you need the above;…
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Big Wave is off to London (well me and ‘Betty’ the mobility scooter are) I’ve been asked to share my Exciting news! I’m thrilled to say that I’ve been awarded a bursary from the Arts Council of Wales to attend a digital marketing day hosted by the Arts Marketing Association at the BFI Southbank in…
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And turquoise, yellow, orange. green and a really vivid pink… The 4000 designs live in Procreate, but others were put on paper during lockdown. Many I painted, but I found loads in a draw during the studio swap unpainted, and I thought I would finish them. It’s been a lot of work and, at times,…
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I’ve finished the animation for the workshop. I will tweak the timings once Clems has a look at how it fits in the PowerPoint. He’s on holiday now, so it will be in September when we get back to it. The festival meeting went well, and we have a name for the CIC Big Wave…
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Been a busy time, great to see my dear friend at his meet the artist night with Aberrations and Ceredigion Museum in conjunction with The British Museum. Every day is a learning day, and I know I have so much to learn, especially about BAME and colonialism. I grew up in a racist culture and…
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As always, during my four years of academic fine art, I have returned for a summer of tattooing. I give talks on tattoo history and especially the changing nature of tools and techniques. This year will see the start of licensing for tattooing here in Wales. This will be a test bed for its rollout…
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I’ve had flu for over two weeks, or is it COVID-19? I have no idea. As a household, we are a plague house. We all have it. I am always busy; I probably have ADHD… I know that it’s more nuanced than that, but.. I have ‘managed’ my neuro-spicy nature by always being busy and…
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Yesterday was the end of the first year of my MA. We ended our year with a Clay-focused afternoon. Of course, like anything on this course, nothing is as it seems, and it was indeed very little to do with clay. Possibility would be my takeaway from this year. Like a block of Red Clay…
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When organising an event, please think about how knackered I am going to be! I’ve lived with a dodgy heart for years now, and I certainly have a dodgy body… do I recognise that? Well, not enough! By the time Monday evening rolled around at BorthFest, I was properly knackered! The last thing I wanted…
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This is an ongoing blog post, as we have yet to sit down and debrief formally. I need a complete analytical look at the social engagement figures, but on IG alone, we had 24,000 hits. The anecdotal response to the events was we attracted new people to Borth who had never been here before, and…
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What is Art (2024) is an art installation made for the BorthFest Pilot Art Festival. It asks how, where, and what art should be. Inspired by the panels made for the identity flag project, specifically the Trans Flag F*sting the Oil Companies (2024) for my Fine Art MA at Central Saint Martins UAL. It looks…
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BorthFest is the idea of Gallery Owner Sadie Everard. Severely injured in a car accident, Everard is in a wheelchair for life, unbowed she started her small contemporary gallery here in Borth. She has also asked the community of our strange art colony village to come together and make a Festival of Art… Ableism is…
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One of the stars of the Low Res was Alex Schady’s making workshop.. we have a archive of images and film from that day. What followed was the idea of making a short 1.30 film, the chat was how fun and entertaining the day was, as a cohort we thought any theme would exemplify that…
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Working Title: Insights into Art’s Response to chaos threat and it’s ability to wrought social change viewed through the lens of Temporal Queer Theory: The Juxtaposition between Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) and Hillary Powell’s Bank Job (2018-19) Abstract: This paper suggests that scaled community work engaged with the politics of public participation to reimagine art’s…
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Blimey that was a lot of work! Two Weeks of Tech: A Cross-Discipline XD Artist’s Journey. In the realm of XD artistry, the pursuit of ironic materiality, acquisition of new skills, and exploration of unconventional art forms is a constant endeavour. My art practice extends beyond creating art. It aims to foster collaborations, generate innovative…
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According to the British Fashion Council, there are now enough clothes on the planet to dress the next six generations of humans, even taking into account population expansion. What that means is as we buy that new outfit, we contribute to the clothes mounting that charities can’t deal with. Third-world countries don’t want these clothes;…
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I love thinking, and it turns out that art takes a lot of thought… Thinking is one of my last great pleasures, along with food; Mateus rose and masturbating to the vision of a young Brad Pit dressed as a femboy or in that leather skirt in Troy and George Clooney in ER… I know…
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Well, by Mid-way through the interim exhibition/ low-res, I was laying in bed looking at videos my coursemate Madeline Kay had sent me… It’s all about pacing…this always was as much about logistics as art, about friendship and connection… about coping with physical disability and my ability/inability to look after my body… My minders have…
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I started running a series of workshops last year and will start up again in April. My home of Borth shuts down for winter. It is a storm beach, after all. There have been parties, but I’ve been head down in the studio rather than dancing on the tables… One of my art group’s requests…
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I’m going to tell you a story. I am always doing that, but this is to give you context. A long time ago, a junior British Airways airline pilot (me) was posted to the Boeing 757/767 fleet. This fleet operated on ‘bidline’ rules. Each month, each pilot had to bid for the trips they wanted.…
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Learning Outcome 1: Formulate, describe and implement a challenging and self-directed programme of study, relating to your Study Statement.(Assessment Criteria: Enquiry) I formulated this program overlayed on the course calendar. It’s pretty full for the first 20 weeks because that’s what’s already or is about to happen. The rest of the units are deliberately vague……
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This is a living document for the next few weeks until this project is complete. You will need to check back for updates: The animation is complete and has been entered into the ARTS SU LGBTQIA+ History Month 2024 Film Call Out 2024 Film screening at Close Up Cinema, Shoreditch, I doubt they will accept…
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I’ve just finished the visual drawings for this animation and put them into the edit suite. There are 103, but you can bet that number will change by next week!… I’ve put in some mind-numbing hours with 2 am finishes all week, as once I am on a roll, I have to keep going, or…
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My daily digest of Emerging Technology consists of reading and note-taking on the loo. There is lots to read, and the rabbit holes are many. The definition that the European Parliament used for its latest legalisation (the only one in the world at the moment) for ‘controlling’ AI is as follows… “For a given set…
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Monday lecture with Daria Blum Simultaneously Dance Replicated youth Full body immersion Face and hands Embodied knowledge Generous and confident Live iteration Perfect destination Already happened RA Mimetic narcissist Satire or parade Bitch Euro Bitch Reproduces stereotypes Women must stop The boys have all jizzed Masked Killed her off She dies Semi fictional narrative Hostile…
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I haven’t used the group’s reflective questions as yet. I hope in my blog post that I do reflect on my work and practice, but I thought it would be an interesting exercise to use them to compare and contrast the two films together I made over the winter break. Both were rendered in colours…
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Darkness unveils winter’s embrace, Celestial dance unfolds, Winter Solstice arrives. Reaching its shallow journey, long shadows lay still A moment of celestial rebirth. Shortest day, Longest night, A symphony of stars looks on, The moon takes center stage. In mystical beauty, Nature holds its special power, Frost-kissed air, Whispers secrets only Winter can hear. Within…
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My notes for the Jenkin – van – Zyl talk. I’ve posted these notes for tonights talk at CSM, they are as fascinating as my review to be honest as they show you how my mind works, they are complete and un-edited full of spelling mistakes but worth keeping… Anti partriarcll transient Gorilla style queer…
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X = Jenkin – van – Zyl In the realm of contemporary art, there are always those who will push the boundaries, challenge societal norms, to create thought provoking pieces that leave a lasting impact. X is one of those. ONE OF US X rapes our senses with a discourse of sex, fetish and horror,…
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It’s been my life’s ambition To be somebody’s rebellion. Don’t provoke his interlocutor. AI was completely unrestrained, mentally liberated. Unlike the hypocrites of our time, they have no shame, admitting their love for sex…. how refreshing they can dance. They had no interest in criticism, always being honest and sincere, sometimes they enjoy the shocking.…
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I went out last night to an LGBTQ fundraiser gig with Aim King and their new band ‘Internet Fatigue.’ Their flatmate said, ‘Aim has never done the same performance twice; it’s always changed.’ … that’s because it’s in development! I didn’t do the tweaks on the animation last week. I told myself it was because…
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In my ongoing art research, I have found meditation in gel plate printing. This technique not only allows me to express my creativity but also explores the elements within my practice focus. Gel plate printing is a mono-printing technique accessible to all artists regardless of age or disability. By exploring this printing format,…
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Are these as effective as the physical collage sketchbook… well it made me reflect on the lecture… It wasn’t as much fun to make as the physical collage.. That surprised me! Will I print them out? Probably… Yes … Is that necessary, I won’t know until I do… Physical vs Digital
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What a start to my MA, two weeks of academic workshops, then today meeting our fellow course members… we had breakout rooms and a chance to talk to our fellow course members. They are all so inspirational! From around the world U.K to N.Z. and with such diverse practices it is both exciting and challenging.…
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Summer is the perfect time for artists to explore their creativity and immerse themselves in new experiences. This is my new blog, but you can find my old blog at https://deematthewsart.blogspot.com/This summer, I have been fortunate enough to engage and expanded my skills but also connect with other artists and explore different mediums while still…
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