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the father, the son, and the holy biscuit

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Approach

Approach – a new poem for @TheHolyBiscuit #nowandnotyet

Approach – ©Andrew Barker 2012, reproduced with permission So. Last night I was at the Holy Biscuit for their fifth birthday party and the launch of Now and Not Yet, a publication for advent (visit their site to find out more and to order a copy). The book has twenty-five entries – one for each day of December up to and including Christmas Day – most of which have a photograph and an accompanying…

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What is it to be human? Piece of the day – Saturday

#whatisittobehuman? @theholybiscuit @citychurchncl My final piece of the day. Exhibition closes 4 pm today

We all have a story – Emma Bird So. For my last piece of the day (the exhibition closes today) I have chosen We all have a story by Emma Bird, an intricate sculpture in thin wire. Emma says this about the piece: We (being human), we laugh, we cry, we love, we are full of a range of emotions, we make things, we break things, we play, we interact with others, we reproduce. Essentially we all have a…

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What is it to be human? Piece of the day – Thursday

#whatisittobehuman? @theholybiscuit @citychurchncl My piece of the day – Thursday

The one among the many – Jemma Mellor So. Today’s piece is a series of six photographs by Jemma Mellor, who says this about the set: The artist is looking at the tension between our opposing desires to be in community yet also to retain our individuality. We see the benefits of being a collective, being united with others, avoiding isolation and being part of something bigger than ourselves, yet…

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What is it to be human? Piece of the day – Tuesday

Retrospective sisterhood – Beth Louella So. Here’s my pick from the WhatIsItToBeHuman exhibition for Tuesday: a double portrait by Beth Louella. Except, as Beth explains, that isn’t quite it: The painting depicts two women who look like sisters.  They are in fact the same woman (the Artist) nearly twenty years apart.  The young woman on the left is her younger self and the woman on the right is…

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What is it to be human? Piece of the day – Monday

Here's today's pick of a piece from #whatisittobehuman? @TheHolyBiscuit

God made man out of the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7) – Robert Cox So. This painting by Robert Cox one of the pieces in the What Is It To Be Human exhibition currently at the Holy Biscuit. Rob describes it like this: This piece is an abstract representation of the ancient Hebrew creation story. It depicts the idea that we are nothing without the breath of God breathing life and humanity into…

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What is it to be human?

What is it to be human? #whatisittobehuman

So. It turns out I am organising an exhibition of visual art. I have been involved with  for two years now. Back in January, Sputnik and Creative Arts Network launched a mixed-medium, open-submission project, asking artists to respond to the question WhatIsItToBeHuman? We had a great response and visual art exhibition is the touring the UK. WhatIsItToBeHuman? will be showing at the Holy Biscuit,…

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Louise Mackenzie, Entropy – Ball Pool Colour Code Score, C-Type Print, 2014