Tag Archives: University of Wolverhampton

Seeing through the eyes of others

Posted on 10 October 2019 by beckybendylegs

Last week, after the opening night for the MA Show, I confess to feeling quite flat and low about my ‘still life of disorder’. I have indicated such here in the last couple of posts. I suspect that this is … Continue reading →

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New Art Gallery Walsall – art, life and a rather damp pot plant

Posted on 2 October 2019 by beckybendylegs

About last night… what can I say? It was the start of something beautiful. Last night being of course the opening night of the MA fine art and art and design by research show. And, despite spending the evening very … Continue reading →

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Almost there – bye bye precious artworks

Posted on 26 September 2019 by beckybendylegs

On Tuesday this week we transported our precious artworks from the Wolverhampton School of Art to Walsall Art Gallery. On paper, this was quite an irritating task. It meant that I had to go into Wolverhampton just to move my … Continue reading →

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Dirty Practice Day Five – goodbye and thanks for all the pasta

Posted on 5 July 2019 by beckybendylegs

If I am honest, I struggled today, the last day of the symposium. I’m not used to travelling so much, five days a week, from home to Newport to Wolverhampton and back to Newport and home again. I usually visit … Continue reading →

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Dirty Practice Day One – is cleanliness really next to godliness?

Posted on 1 July 2019 by beckybendylegs

This week I am taking part in the annual University of Wolverhampton Dirty Practice Symposium. This is a week-long art practice, thinking, talking, discussing event which is open to students, artists and thinkers alike. This is the first time I … Continue reading →

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The power of the single punch

Posted on 11 June 2019 by beckybendylegs

The University of Wolverhampton School of Art Fine Art Undergraduate Degree Show has started. Another year has passed since the last one. Time passes quickly. Time is repetitive. Time is cyclical, but it is moving upwards and onwards, always. A new … Continue reading →

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Mixing art with dignitaries

Posted on 9 June 2019 by beckybendylegs

Friday 7 June was the opening of the annual undergraduate degree show at the Wolverhampton School of Art. This is now the fifth year in a row I have attended the opening, the 50th degree show at the George Wallis … Continue reading →

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Bringing real art to the book shelves at the university library

Posted on 29 January 2019 by beckybendylegs

QuARTile’s follow on projects, entitled Eye D and Litterature to the Tow Path Eye came to me by a old connection. Serendipity: ‘the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way’. This is how I … Continue reading →

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Is this compulsory? Reflections from the 2018 Fine Art Degree Show

Posted on 12 June 2018 by beckybendylegs

It is degree show time in the UK art education world. Last Friday, marked the opening of the University of Wolverhampton 2018 Fine Art Degree Show. It was my fourth in a row. The first I attended as a future … Continue reading →

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MA in Fine Procrastination

Posted on 22 May 2018 by beckybendylegs

I am now nearly half way through my part-time MA by research in Art and Design. I am sitting here in my studio in Wolverhampton doing what I do best: procrastinating. Even better, I am writing about procrastinating. I should … Continue reading →

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