Yesterday was Trafalgar Day, Mrs O’s birthday, dry rot discovery day (historical) and graduation day for the 2011 intake to UCS. I opted out of the ceremony, it is not my thing and means little to me in terms of the experience of being at university. Mrs O was at work anyway and it was […]
Orchidaceous
Last night I was invited to a Cafe Scientifique presentation at Arlingtons bistro in Ipswich. This building was the original Ipswich Museum and is a fitting venue for these meetings. This time, it was one of my fellow artists Sarah Bale who had invited me. She had collaborated with an Orchid expert Martin Sanford at […]
The kindness of strangers
Yesterday was a strange day indeed. Instead of polishing off and topping and tailing my Professional Practice work folder, something that is a bit of an enigma this year, we were called into UCS for an emergency meeting. That meeting was on top of the self-directed team meeting on Monday where we all agreed to […]
Spectaculo
Today, I tore down the Lux Locus Spectaculo show in Ipswich Town Hall. This is the last show that I will have curated during my 3 years at UCS. The next two shows, although billed as student shows will not necessarily be under my guidance, despite being a member of the curation team. Most importantly […]
Scanners and experiments with Ilford DDX
I ran out of Portra 400 the other morning and all I had left in my case was HP5+ or FP4+. The FP4+ had been loaded when I took delivery of the Toyo 45A and 135 mm lens. I went straight into full blown colour was was taken aback by how tack sharp that Schneider […]
Bleaching Polaroid type instant film
Tomorrow, I shall be demonstrating the recovery of negatives from Fuji 100C – Polaroid type instant film – to fellow students at UCS. All I need is a handful of saved Fuji 100C ‘chemistry part’ of the instant film sandwich , a bottle of bleach ,masking tape, latex gloves, sheet of glass and a fitch […]
Trafalgar – Art at Prettys
This week has been hectic. We opened Trafalgar – the fifth Art at Prettys collaboration on Monday night. As curator, I found myself very busy showing around the Mayor and Mayoress plus the Provost of UCS. The evening was a blur and I ended up having to make a poor impromptu speech that I nearly […]
Strange week
The past week has been full on and utterly exhausting. What with hanging the Trafalgar show at Prettys and the scary incident of a 24 year old fellow student working on the hang suffering a stroke, fitting in a 6 hour shooting day for Edgelands, researching for degree project and dissertation I feel wrung out. […]
Stroke – reaction time
Today has been a sobering one. I was busy on the hang of a new show when one of the team, a 24 year old student exclaimed that he could not feel his left hand. It took all of 5 seconds to work out what was going on. A 999 call and a high speed […]
Edgelands continued
Yesterday saw a full on 6 hours of shooting on large and medium format film. Plenty of Portra 160, 400 and Ektar in the can waiting to be processed. These are HP5+