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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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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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carldurban
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Drawing Workshop - Exhibit & Curation
With the thematic exhibitions as part of BA1b just around the corner this was a timely Drawing Workshop. The brief was simple, take one...
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carldurban
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Week 22 - Soft Sculpture taking shape
I had a feeling that there was something that had potential in the previous week's workshop where I was playing with the pieces of wood...
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carldurban
Mar 15, 20202 min read
Week 21 - More Soft Sculpture
Part of the frustrations from week one was working out how to give structure to anything created. Without any framework everything I was...
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carldurban
Mar 11, 20203 min read
Week 20 - Soft Sculpture
Deciding which workshop to choose for the second part of BA1b was very tricky. Should I try and see how I could work in screen print, an...
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carldurban
Mar 8, 20202 min read
Drawing Workshop - Drawing by touch
Strange one this workshop. Strange is good though, makes you think, look at things from a different point of view, explore your...
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carldurban
Mar 8, 20202 min read
Drawing Workshop - Drawing In. Drawing On.
Yet another Drawing Workshop that I found very engaging. This one we were given advanced warning as to what we would be doing so we could...
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carldurban
Mar 8, 20203 min read
Riotous Order - 1st Year Collaborative Piece
Working with Jo Dunlop, a fellow 1st Year Fine Art Student and fellow ex-Year Zero colleague we worked together to set up a collaborative...
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