tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:55:06 +0000ChildhoodArchitectureExhibitionsAwardsPhilosophyMarketingGalleriesnameDesignInspirationFunCreative ThinkingSculptureBeingshttp://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/noreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)Blogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-4816131084081143051Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:45:00 +00002012-02-12T21:55:06.244ZGalleriesFunArchitectureCreative Thinking Great to see these lit up mini 'street creatures' around The Public, the wondrous Will Alsop designed building in West Bromwich.  A few weeks ago I had the brilliant experience of being part of the team which created Will Alsop’s Box Of Delights 3D painting at The Public in West Bromwich. I was already very familiar with The Public as I exhibited some of my Frillip Moolog beings in the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/njc3RdkxKjk/working-on-will-alsops-box-of-delights.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/njc3RdkxKjk" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2012/02/working-on-will-alsops-box-of-delights.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-7520716800044966179Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:43:00 +00002012-01-11T23:43:08.375ZBeingsArchitectureCreative Thinking Making sense of the world ... this is something that occupies my thoughts much of the time. We take in our surroundings: the space; the walls; the scale of things; the emptiness; or even the overwhelming busyness, and if you allow yourself the chance to absorb these feelings you can think... think about possibilities and about about potential narratives. I always carry my camera with mehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/17RYUFzjYe8/inspired-by-yayoi-kusama-to-explore.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/17RYUFzjYe8" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2012/01/inspired-by-yayoi-kusama-to-explore.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-5548712154604737173Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:18:00 +00002011-10-24T18:54:26.551+01:00ChildhoodFunExhibitionsWhen a vintage motorbike with sidecar pulls up outside the venue calling itself Kirkland’s New Empire Bioscope you know it will be no ordinary trip to the cinema.The Bioscope is an ongoing cinematic project between artists Elena Cassidy-Smith, Ruth Swallow and cinema buff John Bates. I was visiting on the last night of this four week project as my own film Trolley Happenings was being shown on http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/7fuJVKMkFt4/kirklands-new-empire-bioscope-with-dash.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/7fuJVKMkFt4" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/10/kirklands-new-empire-bioscope-with-dash.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-6474320363770617005Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:37:00 +00002011-10-02T20:38:36.210+01:00BeingsExhibitionsWhat does the word 'curate' mean to you? By taking part in anticurate at mac Birmingham this summer I feel a bit more enlightened on the topic. Since graduating in 2006 I have bust a gut trying to ‘make something happen’. It has been full of adventures, exciting, exhausting and at sometimes disappointing. Actually at the low points i.e. when I have received another rejection (or shall we say, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/oI3kTR10Foc/anticurate-and-role-of-curator-one-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/oI3kTR10Foc" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/10/anticurate-and-role-of-curator-one-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-2659721441668467911Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:51:00 +00002011-08-16T00:31:18.509+01:00ChildhoodBeingsArchitectureSculptureInspirationBuildings; what is it about them that keeps me enthralled? Is it their form, materials that they are constructed from? Or maybe it's mostly due to the feelings that they arouse in me. There are different kinds of the feelings; those that I have now when I encounter a building as an adult and a feeling that enhances a previous feeling. I often have a deja vu kind of enhanced experience of a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/gHnMb0PyoYg/cosmic-communist-constructions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/gHnMb0PyoYg" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/08/cosmic-communist-constructions.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-2740674858404922792Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:30:00 +00002011-06-28T20:15:15.384+01:00BeingsSculptureCreative ThinkingInspirationSome things just make me smile .... and for me the natural next step is to share my discoveries and what they mean to me. I want to invite people into my world. I suppose that that is what a lot of being an artist is about; trying to get people to see things through your eyes .. even if it’s just once in a while. Function is one of my bugbears. When people ask me, “But what does it do?” or, “http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/SxSoQ-IUoe0/inspiration-from-andrew-logan-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/SxSoQ-IUoe0" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/06/inspiration-from-andrew-logan-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-7370792085892547631Thu, 26 May 2011 11:36:00 +00002011-05-26T18:46:55.665+01:00ExhibitionsArchitectureTime is not linear. I have proof! Sometimes I try to unravel my inspirations. I try to track back but I keep discovering that it is never a simple matter of, “I saw this and so I thought of that”. The sequence of events is usually messy. Sometimes I look at something, say an old exhibition catalogue, and I ask myself, “What was I doing back then, in that year?” Was my life even orbiting in the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/Oyo23X7E3ls/from-eileen-grey-to-martin-broomfield.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/Oyo23X7E3ls" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/05/from-eileen-grey-to-martin-broomfield.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-8557690421535453578Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:44:00 +00002011-04-24T20:12:44.018+01:00GalleriesExhibitionsArchitectureInspirationFood is something that we all have in common. But it takes up varying amounts of importance in different people’s lives. Only some people know that in a previous existence (i.e. before being a full time artist) I was the proud owner of The Little Deli Company in Sutton Coldfield. (Voted as one of the top 20 artisan cheese shops in the UK : Gourmet magazine 1993). So I was really quite excited tohttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/rWJjo9nMOVE/if-martin-parr-is-foodie-then-what-does.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/rWJjo9nMOVE" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/04/if-martin-parr-is-foodie-then-what-does.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-1446613342932868515Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:46:00 +00002011-03-27T16:27:44.707+01:00BeingsSculptureCreative ThinkingDesign Some art makes you immediately ask yourself “Why?” Why on earth did the artist decide to make that? To put those materials together? To rearrange, to construct in such a way etc? Other art makes you ask “How?” Michael Rowe is an artist whose work makes me ask “How?” You could say that that’s because he is an applied artist working at the top of his field. An artist where knowledge of his http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/OKSGgb9s720/how-and-why-questions-to-ask-artists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/OKSGgb9s720" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/03/how-and-why-questions-to-ask-artists.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-3235296636984040032Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:04:00 +00002011-02-11T16:00:45.942ZFunExhibitionsTall Legs . One of my earliest Frillip Moolog 'beings'. Her vain side is the one that I notice first. I may have strength and stamina but sports has never been my strong point. True I did run in County Cross Country races when I was at school but show me a bat and ball and I am completely hopeless. How nice then that I have been able to take part in Away Pitch, East Staffordshire Borough http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/LjKimoIm0qw/frillip-moolog-gets-sporty-with-away.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/LjKimoIm0qw" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/02/frillip-moolog-gets-sporty-with-away.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-5730543968765160672Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:41:00 +00002011-01-17T00:13:16.716ZPhilosophyExhibitionsCreative ThinkingThe very interesting view from Gareth Devonald Smith's studio.Places: what do they mean to us?Recently I had an interesting conversation with poet and playwright Kevin Fegan. He mentioned that he studied Philosophy at degree level. I still don’t actually know what the 'Big Themes' in philosophy are but it was the kind of conversation that whetted my appetite for more conversations covering meaty http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/XtNx9ZNKLw8/take-alternative-experience-and-walk-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/XtNx9ZNKLw8" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2011/01/take-alternative-experience-and-walk-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-5499909125919089934Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:11:00 +00002010-12-28T23:01:42.174ZExhibitionsInspirationExhibiting in the Liverpool Biennial 2010 was a really exciting event for me this year. Blink UnBlink was the name that Olwen Holland and I gave to our two person show at The International Gallery (Slater Street). Blink UnBlink was part of S.Q.U.A.T. Liverpool and was curated by Gregory Scott Gurner and Asher Remy Toledo. When Olwen and I first saw the gallery we both fell in love with the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/fLvLcFCXci4/blink-unblink-at-liverpool-biennial-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/fLvLcFCXci4" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/12/blink-unblink-at-liverpool-biennial-and.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-7228469969224258355Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:47:00 +00002010-10-16T23:56:28.826+01:00ChildhoodGalleriesBeingsExhibitionsCreative ThinkingThe Liverpool Biennial is getting a lot of attention these days. Started in 1998 by James Moores, who now runs the A Foundation, it now attracts over a million visitors. This is the 7th Biennial. I first visited in 2002. The piece that I remember most from that year was then was Tatsurou Bashi's Villa Victoria (the one room hotel built around a bronze satue of Queen Victoria). I also visited in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/uQtEcfLhdWE/liverpool-biennial-2010-power-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/uQtEcfLhdWE" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/10/liverpool-biennial-2010-power-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-2531109339634483528Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:18:00 +00002010-09-23T18:07:10.214+01:00ExhibitionsArchitectureCreative Thinking Belsay Hall Photographed in the Spring . Image from English Heritage Guidebook.As an artist I am looking, living, imagining, experiencing and making. These are all aspects of my work but I never think of any of it as work. It’s just my life, it’s what I do.This summer was an exceptionally busy one but I am so glad that despite being busy I was able to visit Extraordinary Measures at Belsay Hall http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/jFdvuK9v3jM/touched-conference-enhances-experience.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/jFdvuK9v3jM" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/09/touched-conference-enhances-experience.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-5128392425901170600Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:51:00 +00002010-08-06T02:40:22.963+01:00GalleriesBeingsExhibitionsHow often do you get asked if you would like to exhibit in your home town?Inventions of the Mind is just that; an exhibition of my work in my hometown of Lichfield. But even better, it is in the unique 18th Century setting of the Erasmus Darwin House.This is a museum that I have long had an affinity for. Infact back in 2005 (as a fantasy project) I planned an exhibition in this venue. The works http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/67AytFPrqMc/frillip-moolog-beings-take-up-residence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/67AytFPrqMc" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/08/frillip-moolog-beings-take-up-residence.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-7004858008068489994Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:05:00 +00002010-06-27T10:30:32.735+01:00FunArchitectureCreative ThinkingInspirationDesignSystems to categorise and organise have interested me for years.I used to enjoy watching those programmes where an organisational guru would take over someone’s house and after only two days would have installed a wonderful system of shelves, boxes, drawers and index cards. It all looks so simple; just go out and buy lots of special storage boxes and hey presto!But categorisation of information, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/aPW7J8GUpNY/walls-photographs-and-managing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/aPW7J8GUpNY" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/06/walls-photographs-and-managing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-7305950112753657074Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:16:00 +00002010-06-22T16:41:03.855+01:00GalleriesExhibitionsCreative ThinkingInspiration The Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory in Lincoln… would I like to exhibit there? Yes of course!The show was called, Meleager’s Garland and it was curated by Anneka French and Rebecca Wombell and took place over the last May Bank Holiday weekend. The name was inspired by the Greek poet Meleager who first assembled an ‘anthology’ of poetry, titled The Garland. The word ‘anthology’ was previously only http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/KR_2Q0SZ8G4/meleagers-garland-opportunity-for-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/KR_2Q0SZ8G4" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/06/meleagers-garland-opportunity-for-new.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-99379097236113112Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:53:00 +00002010-04-26T14:08:19.766+01:00ChildhoodArchitectureInspirationDesignStories are what I thrive on; and what better than a story which starts with a teenager in Sheffield making a caravan. Scavenging for materials in post war Britain he used Ponds skin cream jars for the light fittings. (I remember that cream, it was always really cold. I used to put a dab on my nose when I was a little girl messing around with my Nan’s toiletries.)David Mellor is the teenager thathttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/bbxH1Vz-CDI/david-mellor-taking-inspiration-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/bbxH1Vz-CDI" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/04/david-mellor-taking-inspiration-from.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-8633892292933699353Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:00 +00002010-03-14T18:36:27.645ZGalleriesPhilosophyFunCreative ThinkingInspirationNo sooner had I read about Phil Smith’s book, Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways. than I found myself on my own “ambulatory adventure”."If you want a simple definition of the term Mythogeography, you won’t get one. It’s more about ways of doing things than a theory. It’s about experiments rather than text books. It shares some genetic material with psychogeography, just as Psilocybe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/YMMdMcnd7Qg/mythogeography-my-encounters-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/YMMdMcnd7Qg" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/03/mythogeography-my-encounters-with.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-8548550913629737826Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:03:00 +00002010-03-08T10:25:01.981ZArchitectureCreative ThinkingInspirationJust a couple of weeks ago I made an exciting trip to Basel, Switzerland. Not only was I delivering "Bettina" to her new home but the trip was also great opportunity to see some inspirational architecture.Back in 2007 I contacted curators at the Vitra Design Museum when I was researching Mary Little. They have one of her chairs in their renowned furniture collection. This year while in Basel it http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/VupcswSasqI/fighting-to-build-fighting-to-save-zaha.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/VupcswSasqI" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2010/02/fighting-to-build-fighting-to-save-zaha.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-4220942816971570697Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:17:00 +00002009-12-19T12:23:32.480ZGalleriesMarketingFunExhibitionsHow far will an artist go to get his or her work exhibited in the right place? What is the right place?Will saying that I have exhibited alongside a priceless van Gogh drawing in a top UK gallery actually affect how my art is seen? Will it make curators take me more seriously?Ania Bas was artist in Residence at The New Art Gallery Walsall during the summer of 2009.There is an interview between http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/DKJEk4CDEyc/giving-my-cv-boost-by-exhibiting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/DKJEk4CDEyc" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2009/12/giving-my-cv-boost-by-exhibiting.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-718087098938137133Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:54:00 +00002009-11-25T17:24:48.104ZGalleriesPhilosophyExhibitionsCreative Thinking The vinyl lettering is in a font called "Synchro". This tied in with the show card which was designed by Paul Wigelsworth.The G1 exhibition space at Solihull Arts Complex is one where all types of people have had the chance to encounter my Frillip Moolog beings. The gallery opens onto the public library and is within the same complex as a very busy theatre. So it is not surprising that the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/V1fLIwroWCM/frillip-moolog-gets-dramatic-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/V1fLIwroWCM" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2009/11/frillip-moolog-gets-dramatic-at.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-3311890474086344317Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:43:00 +00002009-11-03T16:51:34.275ZFunCreative ThinkingInspiration Last weekend we visited our friends, Nick and Leda Skeens in Burnham on Crouch. They live on a house boat but not just any old houseboat; I’d call it a mansion boat. It started life as a concrete hull which was first used for the Normandy landings; it was never designed to sail independently but rather to be towed across to France laden with wartime supplies. Nick and Leda have transformed it http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/deQdZZkZZxU/halloween-charity-shops-and-day-of-dead.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/deQdZZkZZxU" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2009/11/halloween-charity-shops-and-day-of-dead.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-3962574402317763561Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:40:00 +00002009-10-21T11:29:44.112+01:00GalleriesBeingsExhibitions What a journey! I’m only now writing about Close Eencounters of a Frillip Moolog Kind as I have been so busy living it!The beautiful documentation photographs were taken by Olwen Holland. Olwen mentioned how the older beings such as Hyacinth and Tall Legs seem to show the same personality traits whether they are at home or “on location” as they seemed to be in Notting Hill.Hyacinth seems to be http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/-05fBx7cZYs/close-encounters-of-frillip-moolog-kind.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/-05fBx7cZYs" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2009/10/close-encounters-of-frillip-moolog-kind.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2037111405869235491.post-9092107877819981293Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:15:00 +00002009-09-14T11:44:10.524+01:00MarketingPhilosophyFunExhibitionsDespite a very busy week and the 316 mile round trip I decided that I wanted to be part of Richard Slee’s MIMA Art Market Adventure. Yes I’m a sucker for an adventure! I’ve admired Richard Slee’s work for several years now. I saw his work on show when he won the 2001 Jerwood Applied Arts Prize. I had already fallen in love with “Evil One” one of his pieces that was part of The Uncanny Room http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~3/7MpMFlJJwrc/frillip-moolog-beings-adventure-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (frillip moolog:)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FrillipMoologBlog/~4/7MpMFlJJwrc" height="1" width="1"/>http://blog.frillipmoolog.co.uk/2009/09/frillip-moolog-beings-adventure-with.html