In trying to develop my idea of plaiting or weaving different parts of my realities together, I have decided to use the warping tool in my photo processing software to give fluid form to my work. My friend Krystyna suggested that I weave my paintings together. In my previous blog, I wove together a radiotherapy … Continue reading Unique forms of fluidity
Last week I started the woven rose project: I know it's a carnation rather than a rose but, when I was working on it, it looked like a rose:This is a flower, now past its prime, from a bunch that I received for my birthday: A carnation past its prime.©️Anna Goodchild 2021 I 'developed' that … Continue reading Dominant pixels
I wish all those who read this blog HOPE this Christmas and in 2021. As there are quite a few people reading this blog, could I ask you to leave a comment from time to time? I get very curious when I see what you have been reading and wonder what you think of it. … Continue reading Hopeful Times
6pm: Cristina de Middel talk introduced by Brett from TPG.I did not like the concept behind Afronauts when I saw it as a finalist in the 2013 Deutsche Borse Prize at The Photographers Gallery, London, because I thought the author was inviting us to laugh at the attempts of unlikely candidates to send a rocket … Continue reading TPG hosts a talk by Cristina De Middel
A member of the AoP f22 group wrote to me about this and thought I would be interested. Yes! I was. I bought the book "The Parameters of Our Cage" which is an edited version of the letters which they wrote to one another, initiated by CFC. The recorded telephone conversation between Alec Soth and … Continue reading A telephone chat between Alec Soth and prisoner C.Fausto Cabrera
Notes from a webinar by the London Alternative Photography Collective on 10th September 2020 at which four photographers presented their work. It was after I had seen the dance and sculpture/mobile collaboration work to be critiqued for our Bridge session that I made a lot of connections and explored some reading material. I also revisited … Continue reading New Materialism and sustainable photographic practice: Liz Miller
Seaweeds and cyanotypes have been exercising my mind a lot recently. Meghan Riepenhoff and Anna Atkins have both produced terrific outcomes in very different ways. I discovered, at a recent exhibition "Sea Gardens" at RAMM, Exeter (November 2019), that a vast range of algae caress our South Devon shores so I ventured to experiment, first … Continue reading Mixed media experiments
This records my current project with cyanotypes. Inspired by Meghan Riepenhoff's work Litoral, and Anna Atkins' Sun Gardens,I plan to use different exposures of cyanotypes using algae found on the South Devon coastline. My first cyanotype with algae on a cartridge paper .(Fucus vesiculosus) I was very pleased with this as it has traces of … Continue reading British seaweed
It was with great excitement that I read the email I received last Friday from the Association of Photographers: Good Afternoon Anna, Congratulations! You have been chosen as a finalist in the 2020 AOP Student Awards. Please see below for which of your entries has been successful: Places Series // 3562 http://2020.aopawards.com/review/e280b23433be0ff911ac94621f4794f2/?k=75308e1f5fc5ad85d9a9227db6872868&pid= Next Steps We will … Continue reading So excited!
During the covid19 shutdown in April 2020, I decided to extend my vegetable garden. One of the packets of seeds that I had were Purple Dwarf French beans. The Box, Plymouth's new art gallery and museum, advertised to have artists submit work to be considered for micro-commissions. I thought I would submit an application because … Continue reading Collaboration between a developing seedling and a dancer
