At Tate Liverpool this late summer there was an exhibition of Maria Lassnig and her life’s work (1919-2014). Rare to find a female artist who had survived into late age and had produced art works that had early been recognised and encouraged. Frida Kahlo for example lived much of her life in the shadow of…
Today as part of Quimperfect Tense’s season of workshops I came up with some ways of responding to the MMU degree show, you can download the prompts here: Allways Ekphrasis Workshop The first artwork we responded to was a cascading fall of black paper chains, we later switched our two line responses and free wrote from…
Hey everyone in the world, I’ve had a few different ideas to get my head around lately so that’s been interesting seeing what will happen next. I wanted to share a short Frida Kahlo inspired poem which is somewhat experimental (for me) although I can’t show the line breaks at the minute (I’ve run out…
So, what happened with me this year? After Day three I completely let go of the NaPo bandwagon, I didn’t even attempt to cling to the sides. I think I may have froze, partly because I wanted to keep going with the 52 prompts which are weekly poetic prompts. So I wanted to do one…
Hey all, You may have happened upon some of my and others Ovid response poems that are floating around the internet, they are all pulled together and inspired by Nicky Mortlock’s website Artipeeps. I’ve been really happily involved with responding to art works through Artipeeps as well as Ovid, and also took part in the Recovery…
Reflecting on some of the creative writing workshops that I’ve been a part of lately. There is such a variety out there at the minute. The few I’ve recently been involved with I’ve written quite strange pieces from, one of which you can find online here in The Rag-which describes itself as: Ranty feminist poetry that…
Ekphrastic writings: Joana Vasconcelos The Full Steam Ahead workshop took place today at Manchester Art Gallery in response to Joana Vasconcelos-Time Machine. Myself and Sarah Logan are interested in her exploration of the feminine and masculine in her work…
Time Machine, an exhibition of Portuguese artist’s Joana Vasconcelos’ work in sculpture. A re-interpretation of the found materials in our lives, from stuffed toys to religious iconography to recycled fabrics. On at Manchester Art Gallery till 1st June. It costs £7.50 full price and £6 concessions, under 18’s get in for free. It was a really…
There it is, big ball of knitting which steadily diminished in size over however many weeks it took to get through it (knitting pride means I can’t admit it took five). It is Sarah Grace Logan who began this path of trying to knit a scarf. She had these incredibly well laid knitting plans that…
Ola. Here be some cut up poems from yesterday’s extravaganza organised by Sarah L. Dixon. My poem in a cup was Clare Shaw‘s poem How to demolish a house. This is weirdly appropriate for me as I have a billion poems beginning with How to….fly, how to…crash….the instruction poem, best advice you’ll ever…
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