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carldurban
Feb 23, 20213 min read
'Can you read me?'
Every time I think about creating a piece of Braille art the first thing I consider is the message. It has to mean something, it has to...
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carldurban
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Thinking big...
After discussions this morning and in previous tutorials I have wanted to see if I can take some of my Braille messages and make them...
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carldurban
Jan 28, 20214 min read
The British Art Medal Society Student Medal Project
I had originally intended to create and actual medal but the timing of the competition clashed with the production of my Braille piece...
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carldurban
Jan 28, 20214 min read
Paint Workshop - 3rd session (still remote...)
As 'homework' from our last session we are asked what other materials we could find at home to paint with, so I had a go... I tried...
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carldurban
Jan 20, 20214 min read
Paint Workshop - 2nd session (Remote)
It feels like and age since the first session of this 3 week workshop, mainly because it is. We've had the end of the previous term, tier...
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carldurban
Dec 18, 20203 min read
Paint Workshop - time to get the brushes out, finally.
When I had to chose the second of my workshops for this unit I was really torn between Print and Painting. One I had a lot of experience,...
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carldurban
Dec 18, 202010 min read
Becoming curatorial via Teams...
As part of the 2nd year of my Fine Art Degree we have been tasked with the challenge of curating an exhibition in our Tutor Groups. We...
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carldurban
Dec 3, 20204 min read
Another message. Another metal.
After preparing the wax version for the bronze mould I was keen to explore other materials to use for different disrupted Braille...
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carldurban
Dec 2, 20203 min read
More Braille. This time in bronze.
After developing the plaster cast piece I felt there was more to explore in not just the language of Braille but also ways I could...
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carldurban
Nov 10, 20204 min read
Painting over a painting with someone else painting over a painting, repeatedly.
Having not painted for far too long and being surrounded in the studio by work created by India, my daughter I wanted to try a little...
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carldurban
Nov 10, 20204 min read
Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall. A grey day brightened.
I had wanted to visit this exhibition ever since I heard about it late last year. Then 'that thing' happened and time went ticking by....
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carldurban
Nov 6, 20203 min read
Communications/Networks/Disruptions
Following on from my Site-Specific Sculpture reflecting on my communication isolation when I had no phone, internet or mobile signal I...
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carldurban
Oct 20, 20204 min read
Sculpture - Site Specific
This project was run in conjunction with the piece-mould workshop. My initial thoughts were that it opened up all sorts of opportunities,...
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carldurban
Oct 19, 20205 min read
Sculpture Workshop - Moulds
This workshop was a game of two halves. The mould part is to understand the process of making a piece-mould with a view to making...
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carldurban
Sep 29, 20203 min read
And so it begins. 2nd Year Kickstarter.
In this strange new world it was a strange new NUA we returned to on Monday 21st September. Masks, antibac everywhere and everyone...
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Anything you can do I can butcher.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_733d11d0e7634dd9998db712383ee013~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/a27d24_733d11d0e7634dd9998db712383ee013~mv2.webp)
carldurban
May 11, 20202 min read
Student/Staff Exhibition. Anything you can do I can butcher.
A ‘Call Out’ was emailed out from Carl Rowe that even though I had quite a lot on my plate at the time I thought I really ought to find...
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carldurban
Apr 15, 20204 min read
Week 23 - Soft Sculpture. The last week before NUA closed...
As the 'C' word started to take hold things at Uni were beginning to close down. Workshops were being cancelled, tutors were doing all...
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carldurban
Mar 23, 20208 min read
Thematic Exhibition - Process & Materiality
It's currently a mad, mad, mad world. Isolation, social distance, panic buying and worldwide cancellations and restrictions... However,...
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carldurban
Mar 18, 20202 min read
Drawing Workshop - Mechanical Obstruction/Collaborative
A multi-layered workshop this one. Individual and then collaborative and it could be extended even further, if so desired. First things...
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carldurban
Mar 18, 20202 min read
Drawing Workshop - Diagrams
Using a diagram in art feels very graphical to me. An area I try an avoid due to my background and 'other job'. I have a design brain, it...
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