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Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato at the David Zwirner gallery. I love these beautiful and textural paintings. The colour choice and composition in particular make me want to make screen prints in a similar fashion. I left the gallery feeling inspired.

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Books I’ve read in the last year that I’ve been thinking about

Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett. A book of 20 short stories about an unnamed woman living in a small costal village, alone in a stone house. They’re about solitude, nature, pleasure and domestic life --> FERALISM. This is my favourite book!

Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis. A book of short stories on her relationship to herself and the rest of the world. Again, it’s about joy and nature and the noticing of small things. Incredibly touching and sweetly innocent, but without being coy

My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. A book about a girl who self medicates on prescription drugs and tries to sleep for a whole year, only finding purpose in her sleep. Incredible and touching and somehow relatable. I love this book!

Homesick for another world by Ottessa Moshfegh. Fucking fantastic short stories. The blurb on the back correctly claims “...big mind, big heart, blazing chops, and a political acuity that is needle-sharp. The needle hits the vein before we even feel the prick”

This is how you lose her by Junot Díaz. A collection of short stories on love, love, being “foreign in the west”. Made me cry more than I care to admit

Diary of an oxygen thief by Unknown. An account of a real bastard who lost everything when the woman he fancied humiliated him and stripped him of his facade, and how he tries to recover. Made me think about forgivness, healing, and what attracts us in another person

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WHAT I DID FOR PPD...

For my PPD I’d initially planned to make a publication with Rita, that we would screen print onto newsprint in an edition of 40-50, and then leave on the tune for other people to pick up and read. It was going to be a fake newspaer called “The Good News” and it would be filled only with positive and hopefully articles and themes. We were also going to give it a hashtag and make an instagram account so that if the public want to send us their own good news or just fancy messaging us, they can.

I was also going to be doing 3 days of work experience in the printroom of WCA, under Charlotte’s and Jasmine’s guidance. This would have been concluded by me giving my own short workshop to any students or staff who choose to attend.

Unfortunately, neither of these plans were ultimately possible becuase of the corona virus, so instead I decided to make a website. I thought it would be good to have one before the beginning of third year and it was easy to do it from home.

I made mine on wix, which was easier than I thought but also more time consuming. My biggest formal problem was that I didn’t really have any good pictures of my work, and obviously couldn’t go back to uni to take better ones. Because of this, the site looked a little shabbier than I had hoped for, though I can just swap the bad photos out for better ones as soon as I have them.

What I really took from PPD is that it really got me thinking about my online presence, and how I want to shape it. My work and practice being what it is, I think it would be strange for my website to be too sleek and functional. Instead, I intend to keep working on it, perhaps even start over, with the intention of making the site a little…. off. Links that go nowhere or lead you in a circle, an image that keeps clipping in and out, music that restarts every time you click…. You understand. My website needs to reflect the “oddness” of my work, needs to be barely usable, and needs to reflect my idea of what artistic content is.

MY WEBSITE IS https://isobelfeatherston.wixsite.com/artist

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PPD presentation screenshots part 1

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PPD presentation screenshots part 2

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LINK TO PPD PAGE

https://isobelfeatherston.wixsite.com/artist

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William Miller - Ruined Polaroids

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Print and colour ideas. i feel love and also the urge to buy some film and some bleach

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Alien planets at night

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Honey, Im home

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Spanish Fiesta del Gallo carnival costumes photographed by Carlos González Ximénez.

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The yeti in his formal wear

On a serious note, LOVE the extremely dark and creepy costumes, LOVE the folk history behind them, LOVE how the celebration these were made for is equally about the bad as the good. This is life with nature and without capitalism

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The bright landscapes of Gustave Baumann (1881-1971).

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Can’t wait to print again so I can make work like this!!!! I think this summer is going to be hibernation season for the yeti (his fur is so thick he’d otherwise get a heatstroke, he’s much better suited to the colder months) but I think after that when uni starts again in autumn, he might wake up and his loneliness be cured? These paintings just emit such a joyous expectancy and hope and I want to be a part of them and I want the yeti to find love through them

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“6 wings” “2 heads” “6 legs” linocuts from my exhibition “7 maa ja mere taga” 2019

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PLEASE let’s appriciate these LINO CUTS! wow? How creepy and ominous, the seem to be about to walk right off the paper to come to nestle in your house, whether you want them there or not (I obviously do)

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holly warburton

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Beautiful, beautiful glowing paintings. They emit a shine and atmosphere like you see in a film. How touching, how intimate

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lorenzo jaramillo, angel vii (1985) y viii (1990)

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There are SO dark and ominous. Front of a pack of cards? Picture on a lighter? At a bus stop? I feel a little haunted, and also delighted by the grain and the effort visible due to the classic printing technique used for there (aquatint? Or perhaps just drypoint?)