Category: PERSONAL PROJECTS
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AMASS ZINE 04: OUTDOOR SEATING
For a while I thought I’d leave Amass Zine as a trio, but I really like making them and it turns out I had another collection lurking in my camera roll… Amass Zine 04: Outdoor seating is a small foldy zine about chairs at the sides of roads. Are they abandoned old reliables? Somewhere to…
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HOME / WORK Project: WENDY BAILEY
Wendy Bailey is an associate artist at Cuckoo Farm Studios and a member of The Minories Artist Network. Wendy spent over 20 years making music radio programmes at local radio and then at the BBC Radio 2 in London as a journalist, reporter, and producer, doing interviews, features and documentaries. She has interviewed many musicians from…
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HOME / WORK Project: SARA BARKER
Sara Barker is a jewellery maker who designs and makes her own jewellery and runs every aspect of her business from her home studio, in addition to being employed part-time as a lecturer at Colchester School of Art. Sara and I had a really interesting conversation about the balance of working from home, her experiences…
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HOME / WORK Project: DAVID CHILVERS
David Chilvers makes videos about miniature games, which he shares on his YouTube Channel Olden Demon, a channel about rediscovering the joy in old Games Workshop products (or is it something more sinister..?) He describes his work as “literally just working on a laptop, pretty much typing out all my thoughts, occasionally standing up and doing the same…
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HOME / WORK Project: NYE PARRY
Nye Parry is a composer and sound artist who produces creative work from his home studio. I met Nye through his wife and frequent collaborator Madi Boyd, whose home studio I also photographed. I asked Nye: When did you start working from home? I’ve always worked from home most of the time, alongside teaching work.…
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HOME / WORK Project: MADI BOYD
Madi Boyd is an installation and ceramic artist who sculpts light and space by combining built environments with projected video and hand builds ceramic homeware and art. I met Madi through Creative Colchester events and it was fantastic to visit her spacious home studio, which is built in a former garage in her house. I…
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HOME / WORK Project: NEL MOOY
Nel Mooy is an artist who creates lino prints as well as working in her employed job in insurance from her garden office at home. I met Nel through her wife, Angela, whose ceramics studio I also photographed. It was wonderful to visit Nel’s purpose-built office/studio to see how work, home and artistic practice all…
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HOME / WORK Project: Angela Godwin
Angela Godwin is a studio ceramist who focuses on creating beautiful and interesting, functional and sculptural ceramics using life drawing, pareidolia, layering, patterns and mark making as inspiration for making and decorating her pieces. I met Angela at the Cuckoo Farm Studios ‘Presents’ Christmas show, where she is an associate artist. It was fantastic to…
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Notes on my DYCP: Reflections on Developing My Creative Practice
In November 2023 I was awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant from Arts Council England. It was a huge privilege to receive and something I still can’t quite believe now. As a freelancer it’s easy to get consumed with the day-to-day and taking time to work on learning new skills and experiment with…
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HOME / WORK Project: Beverley Garrod
I met Beverley Garrod of House of Garrod through the Chelmsford Breakfast Business Club and was fascinated to hear about the incredible bespoke furnishings and textile pieces she creates in her home studio in rural Essex. A truly unique space, Beverley’s showroom, workspace and family home all coexist in a converted barn where fabrics are…