open house

Some photos from our Open House.

Artists include:
Naomi Frances
Fiona Blair
Louisa Buck
Vicky Ilott
Yumi Okuda

papercrafts

Sunday afternoon origami with yumi & a picture for the exhibition.

let's exhibit

March 28th - April 3rd 2010
Room 212
Bristol

I'm very lucky to be taking part in this group exhibition next month organised by the wonderful Claire and Camilla of Calm Air All Ice (anagrams are great!).

I'm not sure what I'm going to be exhibiting yet but I'm very much looking forward to making some stuff over the next few weeks. In the meantime, they are posting interviews with all the contributing artists on their blog, and somehow I managed to get in there first.

ready, steady...

I finished hanging my work yesterday - what a big relief that was! I woke up at the crack of dawn yesterday morning worrying about shelves so I'm glad that madness is done with.
I also received my moo mini cards in the post this morning - they please me greatly!
Most of them have images of my MA work on them (apart from the pigeon, which I couldn't resist adding to the mix!)

Not much left to do now - GOOD TIMES!

ps. Rosie told me the best joke yesterday:

Q. What's the first sign of madness?











A. Suggs walking up your driveway.

It's
so
good.

almost done!

Still working...but the end is in sight.

This week we're building the exhibition and I'm enjoying doing a spot of painting and sanding. Today was a very nice day away from my desk and I'm looking forward to many more of those over the next few weeks.

Also, I arrived home to a delightful bit of post from Yumi, which included a copy of her studio newsletter (complete with jokes!) and a shopping list for my collection.

A very nice treat!

worker bee

Yes, I'm still working hard on my MA project - busy times!
Here's a flyer for our exhibition - please do come.


Aside from university work I've been making a list full of plenty of nice things to occupy my time with come October. It's going to be a fun autumn indeed!

Oh, and here are some paper triangles which I used to make bunting for my interactive museum:


You can't go wrong with a bit of bunting!

opening soon (ish)

MA09 Exhibition
19-28th September 2009
10am - 5pm
University of Brighton, Grand Parade.

some nice little bits

Here are some quite pleasing business cards & postcards that I picked up at the Zero8 MA exhibition this week:


There's still time to pop along if you have a chance!
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exhibition

Just an update to let you know that the exhibition of work by the students finishing my masters course this year starts this weekend.
So do pop along if you can!


13 - 20 September 2008
Twenty artists, designers and illustrators exhibit projects developed on the University of Brighton’s MA Design by Independent Project and MA Sequential Design and Illustration courses.

Exhibitors:

Jaesun Ahn • Emma Ballard • Adam Barker • Holly Burrows • Aideen Canning • Irene Christoudes • Elizabeth Crook • Shuang Dong • Sian Kellaway • Joanna Kerr • Jonathan Lin • Janette Liu • Yumi Okuda • Eun Young Park • Katy Rushton • Paritta Siriwattanakate • Eena Shin • Monica Thom • Lou Trigg • Patricia West

Exhibitions are free and open to the public Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm

University of Brighton Gallery, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY

bits & pieces

I feel I haven't been very wordy of late and am going to try and write more on my blog from now on, as well as posting images.
I've got some bits & bobs to share today - firstly, is this new magazine I've subscribed to:


It's called okido and is aimed at children aged 2-7 which means it has some really lovely illustrations within it. I thought it would inspire me as I'm interested in creating an illustrated childrens book as part of my MA course.
Here are some sneak peeks of what is inside issue 3:



Some other things i'd like to share:

• a swedish horse magnet from the lovely rachel.
• some crochet i'm working on
• a nice toy tin pecking bird I picked up at the museum of childhood when I took a trip to london the other week.


I'd definitely recommend a visit to the museum of childhood if you're ever in the bethnal green area. It's FULL of amazing vintage toys (as well as more modern creations) and the gift shop is also pretty special.
While I was in london I also visited the V&A where they had an exhibiton entitled 'Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft'.


There was some great work there and I particularly liked the installation piece by Anne Wilson which was created using hundreds of pieces of lace and crocheted thread, all very intricate and tiny.


It was definitely worth a peek.

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