Duncan Cameron

UK Artist Duncan Cameron - Fine Art DTA with Plymouth University INSTAGRAM: @brokensharkcage

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Delighted to be asked to speak at this next week.

Find @infe_foundations  https://www.instagram.com/infe_foundations/ on instagram - free places to this symposium can be booked through instagram.

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Covid Jacket continues a’pace.

The COVID jacket is progressing, up late last night, it’s testing my eyes and fingers. Working on one of my children’s old school blazers, enjoying the collision of the domestic and clinical, so much part of this historical moment. Hard to keep the lines straight and push the needle through the lining as I grapple to hold each in place and stitch from the inside. Learning as I go along but I still need more tests. If anyone wants to collect their LF tests for me please (*negative tests) and post them to me I would be delighted, please DM me, re-use better than landfill and the support is greatly appreciated. I will keep posting ongoing progress with this alongside other creative activities.

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Tube Train DRAWING - Duncan Cameron 11th May 2021

This is a little film of the sketchbook drawings I did on the Tube in London during this ongoing pandemic - Tuesday evening on 11th May 2021

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Artwork continues - Making the covid Cabinet and Lateral Flow Test jacket works int he studio shed at the moment - plugging away after work in the evenings now that the light is back.

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Delighted to be asked to contribute to this terrific event - great speakers and conversation - Drawing is Free and Drawing Projects UK - Teaching Drawing symposium II - as part of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize .

Recording of Live Stream Webinar - January 22nd 2021

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Print experiments with starlings - Murmerations.

Working over old maps.

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Animation tests. Studio Shed.

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Experimenting with stop motion animation in my studio. Cold hands. 

Quite cold playing in the shed this afternoon - warming fingers on a teacup. Animation tests continue - beginning to explore depth of field, the use of different props and shot angles. Liking how the compass holds north as I turn it. Now considering how I might involve drawing and directional elements as Iwant to talk about security and piracy as I develop ideas with the University of Plymouth marine school.

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The year 2020. A lot happened, and continues to happen and we have been lucky, but it wasn’t all bad. It’s hard to believe that I was listening to Greta Thunberg in a heaving climate strike march with my sons in Bristol and was crammed into subway carriages in New York with my students in February and back stage with my students controlling puppets for a full house in ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ in Strode Theatre - it feels like a different world looking back now. 

I loved the first lockdown, the wonderful time with family and the daily walks in the beautiful spring around my somerset village over Easter - before zoom and the world caught up. I was so proud of my children, students and colleagues coping with moving onto online virtual teaching and learning. We cooked a lot, I spent a lot of time with my beehives and were strangely freed from planning and organising so many things, pouring thoughts and observations into my journals, trying to capture the palpable sense of history unfolding. I haven’t of course enjoyed the reduced social interaction, loss of theatre and collaboration, but have loved engaging with new communities of freinds online and particularly zoom Lifedrawing @adriandutton_life_drawing I enjoyed learning to make online drawing videos and art content for YouTube and @isolationartschool and engaging with Instagram live events, inspirational creative practice and webinars @drydengoodwin @vicleelondon @jimparkyn and even sold some work with @artistsupportpledge. I have loved being back in college with my students and teaching friends @strodecollegeart since September and am inspired by the resilience and flexibility of my family and so many others in these astonishing times. Most of all I have loved the many small acts of kindness, the clapping, the support for #BLM and the getting shopping for each other - the solidarity - the all in it togetherness. Drawing has given me productive structure and focus throughout and the warmth and friendly, supportive interactions with you all, out there in internet land, has been simply wonderful. Roll on 2021, let’s get on top of this virus and move on positively, sustainably, better and stronger. ‘Peace out’ as my sons would say.

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Still drawing. The clocks go back and we loose the evening light. Thinking of ways to integrate illustration and writing. Good conference presentations last night about shipping and cyber security as I develop new creative partnerships in university of Plymouth.

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A5 Journal / Sketchbook - Lots of drawing in the last week with new ink pens. Enjoying the range of marks and illustrative potential. Much faster than the pilot G4 and exploring the potential for depth with grey tones. Teaching all-consuming at the moment, back-to-back busy classes and workshops, and drawing early in the morning helps to provide some time to be calm and relax.

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Back at college teaching - drawing. Enjoying the structure of lecturing and having students back in the workshops.

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Exciting times - Have entered the cuprinol -  ‘Shed of the Year’

.... a bit of lock down fun.

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Isolation Art School continues - Casting Animal Tracks

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Continuing with post-it-note experimentation. 2019 notes being assembled on an old jacket belonging to my father. Having ordered a 1000 safety pins I now think it’s easier to assemble using dress pins, simpler and less chaotic looking, want a sense of order, a bit like a 30s flap garment. Also trying to work out coverage and numbers of notes..Lots to consider but at least it means I can make progress in isolation - kiln firing my clay notes and expeditionary and diving practice will have to wait.

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Isolation continues (* 3 weeks in ) - teaching now reduced to daily -instagram, zoom meetings, email, tumblr and comments and likes. Posting drawing and teaching content most days online on instagram and youtube and enjoying opening up new opportunities and ways of working and sharing. Also attending a virtual life drawing class each Friday and contributing to and sharing #isolationartschool -   Now trying to make space to think and progress with PhD artwork(* but not able to collect and explore beyond my village ?)  and writing - in a crowded house of 6 isolated teenage children  #challenging....

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Experimenting with time-lapse drawing recording for insta and youtube.