weekly updates
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Sheila’s weekly update 50: Milestones and new mini exhibition
My goodness, this is my 50th video update! Can’t quite believe that I’ve been doing these for over a year now. They really have become a bit of a habit for me and I hope you enjoy them too! This week I share some news about a new mini exhibition of my work that is showing in ScotiaVisuals gallery space in Glasgow for the next week.
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Sheila’s weekly update 49: home studio visit being starstruck.
This week I share some news about a home visit from a collector and also share my joy at getting to a live ballet performance.
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Sheila’s weekly update 48: Thinking and showing
This week I share a bit about a mentoring session I took part in early in the week. It’s really made me think about what it is that I am actually doing as an artists. My interactions with my environment and the assemblages and entanglements that inform my work. I share a bit about the SaltSpace members show which runs until 26 September, and I have a piece in.
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Sheila’s weekly update 47: A bit of alchemy . . .
This week I share my adventures with cyanotypes – such a magical process – and a bit of news about an update to my website.
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Sheila’s weekly update 46: 1 year on, and enjoying meeting other artists
So it’s been a year since I started to do these little updates. I’ve actually really enjoyed doing them and sharing bits and pieces of what I have been up to. I hope you have too. Let me know in the comments! This week I’ve been out and about again enjoying art and meeting up with artists friends old and new.
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Sheila’s weekly update 45: Endings and beginnings
This week I reflect on some endings and beginnings. Like so many others I was saddened to hear about the passing of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, and so I couldn’t not mention that sad news. Her legacy will last for many, many years to come. On the beginnings side, my life drawing classes started again this week and I share how they have inspired some landscape work. So in the video I share how a couple of pieces are beginning.
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Sheila’s weekly update 44: Revived by art
This week I share a more about a couple of exhibitions I have been able to go to IRL (in real life). Firstly the Karla Black, sculptures (2002- 2021) details for a retrospective, currently on at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, and the RGI Summer Reflections at the Kelly Gallery in Glasgow. Seeing other artists work is always a thrill and and does help to broaden my own perspective and practice.
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Sheila’s weekly update 43: Behind the Bass Rock
Earlier this week I share a mixed media piece called Bass Rock on Instagram. It got a lot of love! So this week I thought I’d share a bit about how the work came together and how sometimes the end point of a piece of work is not what you expected when you start it.
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Sheila’s weekly update 42: In the gallery and on the square
This week I share news about my trip earlier this week to The Stable gallery in Inveraray to drop off some pieces with them, and also about the Art on in Exchange event this week in Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow. On Sunday I’ll have some work on the Saltspace stand and will be there in person in the afternoon helping out on the stand. Why not swing by if you are nearby.
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Sheila’s weekly update 41: Dialogues and conversations
After a couple of weeks “off camera” I’m back with my weekly updates. This week I share some of what I’ve been up to over the past couple of weeks, including the thinking and planning side of being an artist. Would love to hear your thoughts on what I’ve been sharing too, so we can extend the conversation.