Material Discoveries

At first I found this metal wall icy but I quickly grew attached to it. I love the way it encourages spontaneously putting things up with magnets. And you can write or draw on it with crayon too and it washes off. Play, lightness, change.

Seaweed - even large specimens - stick to wall because of their inherent stickiness.

Sheep's wool gathers on fences and around trees. I pluck it off and pocket it.
I am hooked on the smell and the oily, soft texture too.

I've been enjoying drawing with the chunky crayon meant for kids. I've discovered you can smudge it with wool.

The Coracle: a boat carried on one's back

Oatcakes make the perfect studio snack.

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Nathalie sends 2 packages from Montreal:
1. a child's coat that appears to be a lower-class variation of the suit I took apart in 2009.

2. a collection of soaps.
Both feel like remnants from past works, though are new to me. 

Open Studio May 2012

Here are some pictures from Alison and Natasha's Open Studio event from May 2012.

clip from the piece I did in London last week!

You can now see Lucy Watts' funny 'Fish & Chip Review' online here, if you missed the Open Studio by our last artists in residence in February 2012.




http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqg2em_the-fish-and-chips-review_creation

Lucy is also taking part in the prestigious 57th Salon de Montrouge in Paris from 2 May, so if you are lucky enough to be in Paris go visit!

CAUGHT IN A SHELL: revised version

Link to Alison McDonald's own blog

Hi there all, 


Please follow the link below to see Alison McDonald's blog, our international artist in residence from Australia.

Enjoy! :)

http://alisonmcdonaldinabers.blogspot.co.uk

The First Few Weeks

It is wonderful to be here in the creative units! After settling in it has been good to make a mess and play around, gradually developing some new ideas!

There is something in these rocks, weird squashed spaces - almost like old ruins - in this layered slate landscape.