This month I was so happy to write my first post as a regular contributor to the photography site Viewfinders . Its a site I've followed and enjoyed for many years and you can see my first contribution HERE
This month I was so happy to write my first post as a regular contributor to the photography site Viewfinders . Its a site I've followed and enjoyed for many years and you can see my first contribution HERE
In a strange turn of events I've found myself back in college (after a gap of just a few decades) to do a higher diploma in art in NCAD. This was my first piece of classwork, I'm destined for great things lol 😉
(First published on Viewfinders on February 3rd 2023)
Okay, I’ll come clean, I’m one of those people who has a few too many notebooks and a thing for stationery, paper in particular. One of my favourite early memories is finding a ream of paper in a bag from a well-known Dublin city centre stationery shop, on the side of the road, in our far flung city suburb, just before a shower of heavy rain completely destroyed it.
That block of clean crisp white paper was such a departure from my usual art supplies of colouring books and the backs of advertising leaflets that it was a creative shock to the system, with it I had weeks of fun: folding fortune tellers, cutting out chains of people, and helping snowflakes escape from those sheets of paper; it started a lifetime love affair with the stuff.
…or a cabin in the woods.
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I have been thinking a lot about my 365 project recently, I even thought about ending the project at the end of last year, but I realised I very much enjoy having a creative outlet in my day.
With well over 4,000 thousand days under my belt now, and having tried so many different things from paper-craft, animation, video production, painting and more, I realised things have gotten a bit messy on my photo stream.
Yesterday I tried to look at my images and categorise them by putting them into albums on Flickr, my old faithful photo sharing site and home to my 365 project since it started back in 2011.
It seemed to make sense, but it got me to wondering; how do artists with a large body of work in different mediums present their work? Do they create different profiles for each medium? Have different agents for each type of work? or just pile it all together like a giant image jumble sale?
I really don't have the answers to these questions or any idea where to start to find them, but in the meantime I do have some slightly better organised albums HERE
Cat :)
I'm so delighted to receive this in the post this morning!
My image on the front cover, and an interview in, the Royal Photographic Society, Visual Art Magazine. Thank you so much Nicki Gwynn-Jones and all at the magazine.
I've updated my Redbubble shop adding lots more images that can be bought as prints, cards, clocks and many more products, pop over and visit :) https://www.redbubble.com/people/CatMacBride