Author Archives: beckybendylegs

What does it all meme?

Posted on 30 May 2017 by beckybendylegs

Sometimes the last-minute ideas are the maddest, yet, nonetheless worth pursuing, don’t you think? Such a last-minute idea came to me ten days ago, during my Final Major Project assessment, just in time for the forthcoming degree show. During this … Continue reading →

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Inside vs outside and infinite stuff vs infinite space

Posted on 14 May 2017 by beckybendylegs

One of the activities I have been engaged in during my 9-month long obsession over repetition has been doodling on painted MDF. I have spent hours doodling and drawing, scribbling and musing. The doodles are about repetition. The doodles represent repetition. They … Continue reading →

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The age-old question: is it art?

Posted on 8 May 2017 by beckybendylegs

I’ve been thinking more today about my defect art. I have been asking myself what it is about these innocuous little examples of graffiti that I like so much. All I am doing is painting holes and marks. The question … Continue reading →

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Copying defects – the real vs the unreal

Posted on 8 May 2017 by beckybendylegs

I am now marching (or being marched, it feels like) swiftly towards the Degree Show in the Fine Art department here in Wolverhampton. There is just one month to go. The studios are buzzing with ain air of creative stress … Continue reading →

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How to create an artwork with indifference

Posted on 2 March 2017 by beckybendylegs

I’ve been thinking today about what makes something a work of art and what makes something effective as a work of art (as opposed to ineffective). Assume the following scenario: a viewer has a negative response to a piece of art. … Continue reading →

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The place where time is stilled

Posted on 27 February 2017 by beckybendylegs

There were two parts of Northycote Farmhouse that really affected me when I took part in a drawing symposium run by the University of Wolverhampton recently. The first was the sittingroom in the farmhouse itself, the second was an area of Medieval pasture … Continue reading →

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Northycote House and the philosopher’s paintbrush

Posted on 26 February 2017 by beckybendylegs

A couple of weeks ago I attended a drawing symposium at Northycote House, near Wolverhampton as part of my studies at the University of Wolverhampton. The aim of this symposium was to respond to the location and draw. That was what … Continue reading →

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Oh to be an artist with a real art studio

Posted on 6 February 2017 by beckybendylegs

This is what I thought on visiting a communal art studio space in Digbeth, Birmingham. Today, a fellow University of Wolverhampton student and I went to visit an artist-in-residence student in her studio there. Having been an art student for … Continue reading →

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Today, yesterday, the day before

Posted on 1 February 2017 by beckybendylegs

Kierkegaard writes, ‘Repetition and recollection are the same movement, except in opposite directions, for what is recollected has been, is repeated backward, whereas genuine repetition is recollected forward.’ I have a very repetitious life. I am a little obsessed with … Continue reading →

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Why I like the word ‘rhizome’

Posted on 18 January 2017 by beckybendylegs

The great Gilles Deleuze introduced me recently, not personally, to the concept of the rhizome. A rhizome has two different meanings: a biological one and a philosophical one. The biological rhizome interests me because it is so beautiful. See the … Continue reading →

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