It’s been a LOONNNGG time coming but I’ve done it! Totalling about 980 hours making in the studio and around 60 hours installing it this week, and I’m so thrilled to see my plans become a reality, what I imagined and dreamt of become an actual thing in an actual room!

AND I filmed it all, cos I know you guys would love to see it coming alive.
Firstly here is my studio visit video from last Tuesday… right in the middle of the work.

And here is a timelapse movie of the installation from beginning to end.

I give you a little glimpse of the final result here but of course I’ve taken copious video footage and stills, plus have some professionals lined up to get some quality imagery in the next few days, so I’ll keep you waiting, do some organising and editing and promise to share them with you as soon as they’re ready.

Put my feet up? catch up on sleep? go on holiday? oh I wish!! Not quite yet. The work is being examined this week before the exhibition opens to the public on Thursday, so I have fliers to hand out, meetings, the Private View and invigilating, BUT on top of that I now have to write up all the documentation to hand in to complete my MA. The problem with having made so much work is that there is a LOT that needs writing about! (I didn’t think this through did I?!) I’ve got to write an essay, create a digital portfolio of supporting work, put together a professional development file and compile a digital logbook sharing all the research, thoughts and conclusions. I really tried to get all this going alongside my art making but it soon got engulfed as the work got so full on and so much fun!

• Emerge Art Installation is complete - 34 pods & about 210 seeds
  
• Private View 1st September 6-8pm no need to book
• Show open 2-8th Sept 10-5 (see invitation fro details)
  
• 9th September show comes down (and try to find places to put all this artwork!!
• 16th supporting documentation is handed in
• 3 weeks until my holiday - whoohooo!

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See you next week for more!

I’ve been finding it hard to find time to write this but am really keen to document this final chapter for you. Well it’s finally arrived - installation week!

Last Monday I started the week installing the biggest element of my exhibition, my tent pod. I was asked to do this ahead of the official install to allow for discussion and adjustment in our final group critique on Tuesday. It was scary and exhilerating in equal measures - would it actually work? What would other people think of it? Would I be asked to make changes? It was also rather surreal having made sketches, done mock ups and prototypes to actually see it come to life, filling the space like some evil twin of the Haahoos from the Night Garden!

To answer my questions above - it did work (with a bit of trial and error), it has certainly sparked interest from anyone passing through the gallery, and yes I did need to make some adaptions. My design was originally widthways across the gallery but is now lengthways to allow for viewing of a beautiful gigantic print on the far wall, once in the space several parts needed moving around to avoid restricting traffic through the gallery or from blocking the view through doorways - this meant the left hand spike of my tent was sacrificed, and instead will be inverted serving as a pocket with a seed popping out.

The rest of my week was a production line of finishing off pieces in time for transporting on Sunday ready for install week, and not very much sleep! This included creating a felt hanging pod reminiscent of a christmas decoration, splatting a walking stick (for added stability for those who need it when climbing into my pod) and constructing a frame for suspending seeds from the ceiling in my tent pod.

I also had fun painting some false walls for my tent pod with spray paint and splatted fluorescent paint that glows in the dark.

• Installation has begun and must be finished by midnight 29th Aug ready for examination.
• 33 pods finished (just 1 still to do) & 180 seeds finished (just 30 still to do)!
• 1st September my show opens - 8th
  
• 9th September show comes down + supporting documentation is handed in 16th
  
• 4 weeks until my holiday - whoohooo!

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See you next week as things draw towards completion!

I’m now heading into the FINAL week before I install my MA show (eek!). Things are getting exciting and SUPER busy. Let me fill you in on what I’ve been up to.

I then moved onto much smaller versions - there’s 60 of these to do, and they're all gettings covered in spots too!

I’ve also made a little progress on covering some conker spikes with Lycra, lots of these to complete next week.

• 1 week until I install my show
  
• 23 pods finished (11 still to do) & 117 seeds finished (108 still to do)!
• 1st September my show opens
• 16th September show comes down + supporting documentation is handed in
• 5 weeks until my holiday!

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See you next week for the next instalment!

Exciting things are happening - let me fill you in on this weeks progress.

I had a really helpful meeting with the gallery technical officer fine tuning my plans for the construction of my art installation.

• 2 weeks until I install my show
• 22 pods finished (12 still to do) & 59 seeds finished (166 still to do)!
• 1st September my show opens
• 16th September show comes down + supporting documentation is handed in
• 6 weeks until my holiday!

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See you next week for the next instalment!

It’s getting really close now and things are moving at quite a pace! Let me fill you in!

To find out more about my project click HERE where you’ll also discover some lovely merch I’ve designed especially for the show! You could even order your very own bespoke seedpod sculpture from the show

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See you next week for the next instalment!

I’m heading into the last 4 weeks before I install my MA degree show and thought you’d like to see what I’ve been doing this week.

• 1 week until my exhibition space is confirmed
  
• 4 weeks until I install my show
• 16 pods finished (21 still to do) & 1 seed finished (194 still to do)!
• 1st September my show opens
• 16th September show comes down + supporting documentation is handed in
• 8 weeks until my holiday!

To find out more about my project click HERE where you’ll also discover some lovely merch I’ve designed especially for the show! You could even order your very own bespoke seedpod sculpture from the show

AND please join my NEWSLETTER LIST so you don’t miss out on my news.

See you next week for the next instalment!

Just about to head into the last 5 weeks before I install my MA degree show and thought I’d share what I’ve been up to this week.

To find out more about my project click HERE where you’ll also discover some lovely merch I’ve designed especially for the show! You could even order your very own bespoke seedpod sculpture from the show

AND please join my NEWSLETTER LIST so you don’t miss out on my news.

See you next week for the next instalment!

Just about to head into the last 6 weeks before I install my MA degree show and thought you’d like to hear what I’ve been upto this week.

• 3 weeks until my exhibition space is confirmed
  
• 6 weeks until I install my show
• 1st September my show opens
• 16th September show comes down + supporting documentation is handed in
• 10 weeks until my holiday

To find out more about my project click HERE where you’ll also discover some lovely merch I’ve designed especially for the show! You could even order your very own bespoke seedpod sculpture from the show

AND please join my NEWSLETTER LIST so you don’t miss out on my news.

See you next week for the next instalment!

I know you guys have been enjoying accompanying me and cheering me on through my MA journey (THANK YOU SO MUCH!) So I thought for the final couple of months I’ll attempt to share developments on a weekly basis, as things are really beginning to hot up in this final stretch.

I’m in a constant state of trying to hold my nerve on multiple levels at the moment and living in the tension between realism and fulfilling a dream.

1. It's so hard to quantify how much I can make in the time I have left & what other unexpected interuptions might come.
2. I'm still experimenting and creating things I've never done before (which really needs to stop soon!!) this provides me with equal measures of excitement and frustration.
3. I won't find out what space I'm being given to exhibit in until 2.5 weeks before install, so all my ideas and plans have to held lightly and ready for adjustment.
4. I've been attempting to find some voluntary studio assistants to help me create the huge quantity of elements this installation needs (even before I cut my arm) but had no success yet. It’s also not just been confirmed whether I'm allowed to bring in a friend to help me install this giant installation.
5. The windows at Cambridge School of Art are being replaced throughout the summer causing limitation on facilities, room availability and a question mark over the impact on our show.
6. And as well as July being all 3 daughters birthdays I'm also helping one transition to high school, one transition to uni and learn to drive, and one to transition out the other end of uni - so being a mum is demanding quite a bit of me at the moment too!

Despite all these things most of the time I am remembering to have fun and make the most of this fantastic opportunity!

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See you next week for the next instalment!

The final trimester of my MA in Fine Art has begun and last week we did our midpoint presentations and exhibition, so it’s time to take a breather for a minute and catch you up before I plunge back in for the home stretch towards my final degree show in September!

The presentation I gave last week as part of my course might be a good way to summarise for you where the project has got to so far, as we were tasked with communicating to our fellow students and tutors all the work we’ve been doing since Christmas, where we’ve got to now and what we’re planning for our final show.
You can click HERE to see the PDF or click on the images below to enlarge.

I’d genuinely love to know what you think, as I am very much in the middle of working out how to improve this and adjust it to better communicate my concept. So if you have time, I’d love to hear your feedback - how does it make you feel? What does it make you think of? What things do you feel are currently working well and what needs further work? Don’t worry I won’t be offended (I wouldn’t ask if I didn’t want you to be honest!) Use the comments below or email me HERE with your thoughts!

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