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The Troubled Artist

Adam reflects on the troubled artist after recently viewing Asif Kapadia’s documentary about Amy Winehouse.

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How to use your Tutor Reports

Rebecca wrote this blog post in response conversations with Textile Assessors at the last assessment event where it was highlighted that students didn’t often make use of the advice in their tutor reports.

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A Stirring Interpretive

Just ten days after I was born, the music video channel ‘MTV’ was launched; I can truly say that I’m a MTV kid and I grew up on music videos. They were my first taste into ‘Popular Music’; yet I never really listened to the lyrics, instead I watched them and overindulged in their visual allure.

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Just Kids: IV

Gerald’s final blog piece on ‘Just Kids’ ; Linking Fine Art & Popular Culture

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Just Kids: III

Gerald on the Role of the Artist, Materials and Processes…

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Precious Possessions

Our relationship with our possessions, the objects we cherish and express our identities through, is an intriguing and often poignant one. In spite of our throwaway culture, certain objects are irreplaceable.

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Crafting an illusion

A headline in Saturday’s Guardian newspaper, “Hi-tech Hollywood Scares off its Top Monster-maker”, set me wondering.  The story concerned the withdrawal from film-making by a hero of mine, Rick Baker, one of Hollywood’s most successful and gifted make-up and special effects artists. It is a sad day for film-making generally when someone as gifted as […]

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Just Kids: II

Gerald on the influences which shaped Patti Smith’s and Robert Mapplethorpe’s work

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PINK

I am delighted to have been given permission by Sarah to share her powerful video which uses the word pink and was made as part of an assignment two submission for the mixed media course.

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Just Kids

Read Patti Smith’s memoir along with Gerald..
And if you thought you had a good excuse, please note Just Kids is now available on Kindle.

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