Art and Veterinary Science-Sketchbook

Today is week 6 of Art and Vet Science at the Vet School.  We have been experimenting with different approaches to drawing using quick sketches, monoprinting and layering.  Here are some collages from my sketchbook.

Hidden Door Festival

On the 22nd-24th October Fiona, Susie and I collaborated with two poets for Impossible Journeys at the Hidden Door Festival. 

It was so much fun and so much hard work, lots of late nights and early mornings which I'm definitely not good at!   We only really had about two weeks to get organised, but in a way it worked well as there was no time for procrastination. 

We were given two poems to respond to, Rob MacKenzie's The Organist and Kona McPhee's Prodigal.  Both were full of fantastic imagery and we weren't short of ideas for how we could illustrate them.  Our space in the Roxy was the basement bar, for which we made hanging flower-like book structures, (I'm still dreaming of cutting paper circles...) collages for lightboxes and the wall, and altered books. 

Susie hard at work

Me working on my altered book

Fiona on installation night

hanging books and lightboxes

Prodigal collage

'Altared Books'

'Feel'

The Hidden Door was inspirational and demonstrated what can be achieved with a small budget and a hell of a lot of hard work.