Monthly Archives: March 2014

Read an article and comment (and you might need a dictionary)

Posted on 30 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

This week’s homework from college was to read this article by Hai Foster called The Artist as Ethnographer. Seeing that it was only four pages long I assumed that it would be a quick read and best left for Sunday … Continue reading →

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Read an article and talk about it: Creative Accounting

Posted on 22 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

This week for college we have been asked to read an article called ‘Creative Accounting: not knowing in talking and making’ by Rebecca Fortnum. The aim is to think about it and talk about it. So I’ve just read it. … Continue reading →

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Funny signs – is this art?

Posted on 16 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

One of my ideas for the Powis Castle project I am in the middle of at the moment is to make some signs to be put here and there around the gardens. These signs will contain quotes overheard by me … Continue reading →

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Notes for tutorial – two influential artists

Posted on 16 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

I have been asked to pick a couple of artists who are currently influential to my practice in order to consider and compare problems they have faced and solutions to those problems. The first artist I have chosen I came … Continue reading →

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Life’s little pleasures

Posted on 13 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

A long time ago I had a discussion with my husband about ‘life’s little pleasures’ and we managed to come up with a fair few (some I care to admit to here such as clean sheets, that first sip of … Continue reading →

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What The Lego Movie can teach creative people

Posted on 9 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

Yesterday I went to see The Lego Movie with five children (not all my own). I expected to spend an hour and a half consumed by an action-packed, colourful and fun, light-hearted story. I expected there to be a moral … Continue reading →

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Creative people like to do things those non-creative people don’t do

Posted on 8 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

Today I read this. It caught my attention among the hundreds of daily facebook posts I see because of course I regard myself as a creative person. I needed to know: do I do any of the 18 things listed … Continue reading →

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Struggling to come up with an idea? Look in the bin.

Posted on 5 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

Last week at college we watched a short interview with performance artist Marina Abramovic in which she gives ‘advice for the young’. Although I’m not exactly young, the interview had an impact on me and I’ve been thinking about what … Continue reading →

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