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‘You Don’t Have To Like Everything’

Posted on 19 July 2014 by beckybendylegs

This is what Alan Bennett famously said in 1995 that he’d would like to be put on a sign outside the National Gallery. I seem to find myself having lots of discussions recently about what art is and what makes … Continue reading →

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Digital art – turning wishes into butterflies

Posted on 11 July 2014 by beckybendylegs

One of my most recent interests is digital art. Since I’ve been using an iPad to create animations and also now I’ve started to play around with text animation (or kinetic typography) in After Effects I’ve become keen to learn … Continue reading →

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Art for those who are colour challenged

Posted on 21 June 2014 by beckybendylegs

In my daily browsing of the BBC New website, I came across an article about an exhibition at the National Gallery called ‘Making Colour’ which is about how artists have throughout history used colour. This interests me as I am … Continue reading →

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I want to do that…

Posted on 12 June 2014 by beckybendylegs

I have vague ambitions to be a good ‘in the moment’ street photographer (as well as all of my other ambitions). What holds me back is the guts to take photos of strange people (strange as in I don’t know … Continue reading →

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I think cats are ace but there are limits

Posted on 27 May 2014 by beckybendylegs

Today’s browsing of the BBC News website lead me to this news item about the Russian artist who has a penchant for adding cats to works of art. Svetlana Petrova has been adding her big ginger cat, Zarathustra, to famous … Continue reading →

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This week’s homework – an article about museums

Posted on 25 May 2014 by beckybendylegs

This week we had to read this article, ‘Taking Part in the Museum’ by Sabine Breitwieser. The article is about the changing role of the museum relative to the evolving role of the artist over the last few decades. It … Continue reading →

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How did I get from here to here?

Posted on 18 May 2014 by beckybendylegs

I had a reality check moment the other day. I have them now and then. Often they come in the form of a ‘lucky me’ thought. I often get them when my children do something clever or sweet. On this … Continue reading →

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Do objects care?

Posted on 29 April 2014 by beckybendylegs

This week’s article for discussion, Indifferent Objects by Laura McLean-Ferris which appeared in Art Monthly about eight months ago, is about the art world’s recent obsession with objects and what objects are thinking about this (not a lot, it seems). … Continue reading →

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It’s not me, it’s my creative genie!

Posted on 22 April 2014 by beckybendylegs

Recently at college I came across this video on YouTube, which shows Elizabeth Gilbert’s (author of Eat, Pray, Love) ‘Ted Lecture‘ on the meaning of creative genius and the effect of having a creative nature on the creative person. I … Continue reading →

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Around the world in eighty arty farty cafes, just not this one

Posted on 15 April 2014 by beckybendylegs

Ar the moment we are on holiday in Devon. Today we visited Plymouth. And, as is fairly normal, while we were there at lunch time we needed to find somewhere to eat. ‘Somewhere that sells paninies‘ my husband suggested. We … Continue reading →

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