kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Inspiration
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Crocheting recently
Crocheting recently has been a hit and miss deal. I’m in the preparation stage, and I’m still hitting my stride working out these floral details. I am having a lot of fun with the crocheting and general arts and craft book research. There’s also a lot of distractions with retail work and the artist pursuits
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Artist Video – round up of short films about own artist perspective
Artist video round up I need to put some metaphoric eggs into a collective basket. These eggs are in the form of some short artist videos about my artist practice and residency at theGRID hybrid arts collective in 2012. The trailer – Gridlines EO1 teaser The full film – Gridlines Episode 1 – Kelly-Marie McEwan
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Vintage craft books
Vintage craft books are great. Although, it is really difficult to find a website that will pin down the definite age of a ‘vintage’ book. I have settled on this definition which says that over 25 years old [clothing] can be considered vintage….if there’s a better one for books, I’d love to read about it,
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Pinterest was explained to me in a way I’ve understood, and now I have a presence there.
Pinterest is something I have been aware of for some time now, but have held off on joining. It’s something that several people have expressed confusion over; because apparently, my work would fit in well there….? Externally, I’ve seen it as a pastel-coloured cupcake land where inspirational quotes abound and unicorns float on heart-shaped clouds
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Arts based workshops reviewed
The other day I had one of my arts based workshops reviewed. According to this small sample, I am pretty much a total boss at arts based workshops. Writing a survey, and choosing targets wisely….less so. But why the review to start with? I live in a perpetual state of maybe-write-a-grant. Retrospectively, I’ve had no overwhelmingly expensive artists’
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Recent inspiration, branching out.
So, I think in general, ‘street art’ as a concept is something that I’m becoming more interested in, and thanks to the internet, can research at my own pace, while networking with a vast array of artists seem to be freer in the production and distribution of their works than I am currently. There have been several
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