to learn creatively is to actively draw lessons from the culture that’s around us. it is to be critically aware of the stories that are being told in the arts and in the media. it is also to be self-directed in what we learn – not to be told what we think or do, but […]

i am a designer maker, with a fledgling ceramic jewellery business, who is 3 months into an MA in Arts Practice and Education. Whilst i thoroughly enjoy my business, I’m not great at self promotion and so there’s never been a blog before which included this, although there have been a couple just as an […]

took our students to tate modern to see the Klee exhibition, ended up whizzing through it as got carried away with finding cubes in all the other artwork their, slightly annoyed at self, may revisit as would hate to miss out. 

i have decided to try out some of the techniques the students at the bauhaus were taught, and whether they would improve my drawing skills. This began as a mini obsession with square, circle, triangle which also harks back to Froebel’s gifts. For my essay for MA i would like to look at both Froebel […]

I’ve been thinking about the idea of space and the artist studio more, and have found numerous essays surrounding this as a subject matter, from the 1960’s onwards. whilst it is in the back of my mind that i am still interested in how being in an artistic space makes you feel internally, i’ve become […]

I’ve been thinking about the idea of space and the artist studio more, and have found numerous essays surrounding this as a subject matter, from the 1960’s onwards. whilst it is in the back of my mind that i am still interested in how being in an artistic space makes you feel internally, i’ve become […]

Discuss your current arts-based practice and/ or professional experience. Having completed an exhibition for the ATS scheme in August, my current work is very much in the early stages. My current practice includes running a ceramic jewellery business in a 6×8 shed we inherited when we moved into our house almost 5 years ago. For […]