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Sheila’s weekly update 12 August: it’s all about community
This week it was great to have some time in the studio ecoprinting on paper. A lovely chat with master printer Elisabeth Culshaw helped too! This week I’m also really thankful for the wonderful community I have found through the courses I’ve been doing with the Contemporary Art Academy this year – so wonderful to share the highs and lows of artistic life with you all – you know who you are!
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Sheila’s weekly update 27 April: What’s in name?
Naming paintings can be hard but sometimes something just comes to you. This week a share a little bit of naming inspiration.
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Sheila’s weekly update 84: back from holidays and finding inspiration and joy
After a couple of weeks off I’m back with my weekly updates. This week I share some thoughts on the John Byrne – A big adventure exhibition I visited at Kelvingrove At Gallery and Museum – wonderful to see so much of his work. Also realise that my top matches the colours of the drawers in my storage unit – totally unplanned matchy matchy!
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Exhibition news and summer giveaway
This week I share my visit to the Six Foot Gallery Summer Open Exhibition in Glasgow where I have 2 pieces on show. It’s part of a rather lovely, eclectic show, so if you are in or around Glasgow do pop along to the Pentagon Centre. I also share an update on a little summer giveaway. If you’d like to win a little bit of original art just watch to find out more.
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Sheila’s weekly update 64: More adventures with photo-transfer
This week I share some more of my adventures and experiments with the photo-transfer process. Would love to hear your thoughts on my idea of maybe doing a limited edition run.
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Sheila’s weekly update 56: Climate change and collaboration and a bit of high viz!
This week I share some thoughts on the COP26 conference and more specifically the Global Day of Action and march that took place in Glasgow. Over 100,000 people came together to demand change. I was proud to be one of the nearly 500 volunteer stewards at the event. It was an amazing day, despite the terrible weather. I also share a very different march, this time with Little Amal, moving in very different ways. Both reflecting the urgency for action on climate change and the current world order. I also share a bit about an exciting artists collaboration I’m involved in which is using COP26 as its theme. And I…
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Sheila’s weekly update 51: #walkcreate project online gallery
This week I share news about a newly launched online gallery which some of my work is featured in. It’s part of the #walkcreate research project at Glasgow University which is exploring the impact of walking during the pandemic. One strand of the research is to explore the impact walking and lockdown on artists practice. I’ve written a bit more about this on my “other blog” here too. Also a couple of weeks ago I responded to a request from one of my New Platform Art buddies, Sara Reeve, for faces! Sara is a very talented portrait painter and I am absolutely thrilled with the portrait she has done of…
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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 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.
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Sheila’s weekly update 36: Drifting. . .
This week I’ve been doing a lot of “other” work and not so much painting. However, I have become intrigued by psychogeography – that is the exploration of environments through drifting, exploring without a plan. You can get a quick overview here. I need to learn more about this, but I do feel over the past year I have been drifting quite a lot in my daily walks, but more importantly in some of my work. I never really know at times where I’m going or how I will get there but the process and freedom that gives me is endlessly rewarding.