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Week 17 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST). Cement Casting.
After experimenting with clay, sand, plaster and then aluminium it was now time to see how casting concrete could work. As with the...
carldurban
Feb 22, 20202 min read
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Drawing Workshop - Un-familiar / De-familiar
'Draw with anything, on anything, in ways that interrupt your normal sensory or bodily relationships to the materials and processes.'...
carldurban
Feb 12, 20203 min read
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PLAY WITH ME II - Collaboration (3 Bodies, 1 Body, No Body)
A 'Call Out' was made by 2nd Year Students and after not an awful lot of discussion, Jo Dunlop, Sally Brighten and myself decided to sign...
carldurban
Feb 12, 20202 min read
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Week 16 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST). Aluminium Casting.
This was ultimately what we were always working to. A cast in aluminium of one of our creations. The learning of the process, or...
carldurban
Feb 3, 20203 min read
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Week 15 - No Sculpture Workshop this week. So more hands and gloves.
A gap in the timetable for the one-to-one tutorials means it is time to catch up on everything else and make things independently. I had...
carldurban
Jan 30, 20202 min read
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Week 14 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST) More moulds, more experiments
After the first week of getting to grips with casting plaster it was time to see how we could take things on and experiment further,...
carldurban
Jan 25, 20203 min read
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More Casting - Developing ideas
Having enjoyed the process and results of creating plaster casts from clay moulds I decided to see if I could develop some further...
carldurban
Jan 24, 20202 min read
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Week 13 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST) taking shape
Doing something that potentially makes you feel uncomfortable is the best way to learn. Why do what you know? You will never explore new...
carldurban
Jan 15, 20203 min read
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Week 12 - Back to Uni. BA1b begins - Limboland
Good to be back. Strange to be back. After two weeks of Independent study and waiting to see what the tutors have thought about my work,...
carldurban
Dec 8, 20195 min read
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Image 2 - Revisited
I was never happy with my first attempt at painting for this workshop. I chose two very difficult images to try and replicate once...
carldurban
Nov 15, 20192 min read
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COPY - Screen printing induction
When something unique becomes a copy or several copies how can it still have the same value or aura? 15 separate, individual images or...
carldurban
Nov 15, 20192 min read
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Thermal imagery - Interesting and intriguing
I have no idea where I am going with this idea. Yet. One to distill and see what comes to mind. The images intrigue me and pose strange...
carldurban
Nov 15, 20191 min read
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Drawing Workshop - Collaboration & Collective
Just the sort of thing I really enjoy. My mind goes into overdrive at the possibilities of what I can do when given this sort of brief....
carldurban
Nov 15, 20193 min read
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Object 2 - Making the unknown
The definition of an object is: 'Something material that may be perceived by the senses' We discussed the formal properties of objects...
carldurban
Nov 12, 20192 min read
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Intervening
I have previously created some small interventions while I was attending sessions at The Sainsbury Centre. Although these were quite...
carldurban
Nov 2, 20193 min read
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Initial thoughts and Mind Map
After just a week or so into Year One we were asked to put together a Mind Map of what we were looking to explore. Early days, early...
carldurban
Oct 30, 20193 min read
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Time to turn to 3D
The thought of a 3D induction session doesn't sound that invigorating or inspiring but the possibilities that it has opened up are...
carldurban
Oct 28, 20193 min read
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Drawing Workshop - 16 images
Take a large piece a of paper and divide into 16 spaces. Create a non-figurative image in the first space and react to it in the second...
carldurban
Oct 28, 20192 min read
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Edit (Adobe Premiership Pro)
Embracing technology time. Take two simple, mundane pieces of footage and see what happens when you start to play with them, chop them...
carldurban
Oct 27, 20193 min read
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Painting Workshop
A workshop in two parts. A. Acrylic painting on primed board from image on folded paper. B. Acrylic painting on stretched from second...
carldurban
Oct 27, 20192 min read
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CARL DURBAN
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MA Fine Art Graduate from Norwich University of the Arts as a mature student.
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