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Printable Photo Zines (2023 Archive)
In 2023 I attended a short zine making workshop in Stowmarket, It appealed, as a means to reconnect with zine making, an activity I had dabbled with through my sending of Mail Art some years ago. With the workshop completed, I returned home to my desk and considered making a few zines, striking while the…
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The Cracks
We clapped for carers and nurses during the Covid pandemic to show our appreciation of what they do, yet this was not necessarily followed up by the positive actions that supported those people as we made our way out of the pandemic that many of us had hoped for. News programmes have since been laced…
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The Unity Stones
Politics in the UK have been particularly divisive in the last 10 years or so, singling out and villainising various minority groups of people in our society. I was prompted to be thinking about this in early 2025 while I was on many of my coastal visits making versions of the ‘Welcome’ volume of work…
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Shadow Selfies
Social media accounts that are filled to overflowing with selfies can be a bit intense at times. Its been something, that with having low self esteem and not feeling very positive about self image, that I have struggled to partake in myself. Photographs in my camera reel have a varied mix of buildings, landscapes, plants…
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Welcome
“Welcome’ started out in the year 2000 as a response to negative articles, about immigrants and refugees, in the media. People coming to these shores and learning to speak their first words of English had provided me employment as a teacher in the local college, the stories and accounts of why people came to the…
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Artist Recipe Sheets
It’s more about the idea itself than it being my idea. Oscar Wilde said that ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness’ A creative idea being reproduced can be seen in many different ways. A pop song covered is often looked at favourably, with an artist ‘bringing something new…
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