Emerald's blog for documenting making, doing and finding things interesting...
As a development from this experimentation with casting latex sheets, I really liked the combination of plaster pieces held under tension by the sheet that had been cut and glued into ‘rubber bands’. I cast some more – using...
I love an obscure collection, and I’d had Hélène Alexander’s collection of fans on my list for a while. The Fan Museum opened twenty years ago, and has since added to her original collection via various...
For our show, The Art Academy partnered with Four Communications to install the exhibition in their London Bridge offices during the working day.
I’m not sure if there is a puppet connection with Wandsworth, but this is the second time I’ve come across a veritable treasure trove of puppets in the area. The first was when I...
I made this pillow as part of the South London Women Artists (SLWA) group show, Pillow Talk: conversations with women. Curated by Melissa Budasz, Moira Jarvis, Jasmine Pradissitto & Kim Thornton, the project was described as:...
I responded again with collage in this month’s swap with fellow Sketchbook Circle-er… The elements of collage came from characters cut from the Project Tobong newspaper that I’d picked from a visit to the exhibition...
Some pictures from the Pillow Talk: Conversations with women exhibition held at Brixton East last night. The exhibition was collaboration between the South London Women Artists (SLWA) group and Goldsmiths Library
Specifically granite and marble… Ok, so they’re mostly imported from Brazil and Italy, but these slices of stone on show in the yard of Vauxhall’s Granite & Marble UK Ltd make for an interesting and beautiful geology lesson.
When I received a sketchbook started by Gill in January, I was pleased to see it was one of those accordion type ones. I like the idea that it can be stretched out and manipulated, with...
These photographs, from an exhibition at the Horniman Museum, are a result of a collaboration between British artist Helen Marshall and Indonesian artist, Risang Yuwono.
A friend and I have joined in with something called a ‘sketchbook circle‘. Described as “a year-long collaborative project established to encourage artist educators to make time for their own personal work”, there are...
Got the How Long is a Piece of String posters back from Ditto Press today… It’s printed with three colours onto A3 sugar paper that folds down to A6.
