Putting on a show
As part of the Award Specific Unit (ASU), the penultimate unit of my Masters in Fine Art we are looking at not only how to exhibit our...
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carldurban
Aug 16, 202311 min read
Slimeposium
An MA student led symposium. Here are a selection of the talks from the Norwich University of the Arts MA student led Slimeposium held at...
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carldurban
Aug 12, 20238 min read
Inspirational trip to Cambridge
Kettle’s Yard I have visited Kettle’s Yard before and relished the balance and harmony present and the thought taken in curating the...
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carldurban
Aug 7, 20232 min read
Inspiration to print & paint
When I started to document the outcomes, especially when going in really close to the objects I could see possibilities to take to print,...
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carldurban
Aug 7, 20234 min read
3D Prints.
I have eventually started to have my 3D images printed, after a few technical problems with the actual printer. It is quite something to...
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carldurban
Aug 7, 20232 min read
Bronze cast.
Although I am intending to cast from the 3D printed items I also had the opportunity to see what would happen if I took one of the...
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carldurban
Aug 7, 20234 min read
3D Scans & Blender play.
I wanted to explore the idea of taking these maquettes further, to potentially change their scale, produce in a different material,...
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carldurban
May 6, 20237 min read
What next?
Ideas come and ideas go but by thinking aloud and recording the ideas you can have an ever ready source of inspiration. In the spirit of...
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carldurban
May 6, 20235 min read
Getting closer
I need to stop stopping. Stop flitting from one thing to another. Take a breath and dig deeper within a current exploration. I have to...
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carldurban
Apr 27, 20232 min read
Photographing a model
The question was posed about what to do next with the model or rather models in my case when we put them all on show as a group. I...
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carldurban
Apr 26, 20233 min read
Action, Material, Connector
As part of the ASU2 unit we were given a carrier bag containing a variety of bits, bobs and random items... polystyrene, tape, plastic,...
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carldurban
Apr 21, 20234 min read
Being Critical
This was our first Group Crit and the emphasis was on being supportive but also being critical in a way that could offer support or...
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carldurban
Mar 22, 20237 min read
Being a Bad Narrator
Having delivered this workshop* to several schools and colleges as a way of getting students to draw freer and more abstracted rather...
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carldurban
Mar 22, 20233 min read
Studio experimentation
Following on from my Masters Workshop at the beginning of the ASU2 unit I felt I needed to combine some thinking with some technique and...
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carldurban
Mar 22, 20236 min read
Play time
With the beginning of the ASU2 (Award Specific Unit) I felt my MA had begun, the rigours and structure of the RIPU (Research Into...
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carldurban
Dec 5, 20223 min read
Collage and disruption
While I have been researching in the more traditional way for my RIPU unit I felt the need to be creating, to play but I didn't know...
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carldurban
Nov 30, 20229 min read
Symposium time
As part of our MA we were timetabled to attend a Symposium, the definition of which is: symposium /sɪmˈpəʊzɪəm/ noun 1. a conference or...
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carldurban
Oct 26, 20229 min read
That there London and galleries
I thought going on a school trip was something in the distant past decisions of what bus food you needed, who will I sit next to and who...
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carldurban
Oct 24, 20223 min read
Masters. A Manifesto.
After what seems an age my Masters in fine Art (part time) has begun. It is strange to start all over even with some familiar faces, it...
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