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Collecting a Collection #1

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I’m currently on a kind of sabbatical, officially a deferment, but the word brings me out in a rash of Gilbert and Sullivan for some reason, so I steer round it. This runs from January 1st to March 31st, and none of the work I do in this period can be submitted for assessment because, having argued for a break, it would be unfair to allow me to use anything I produce in this time as coursework since no one else is getting those extra three months. This doesn’t mean stopping, though, and how easy would that be in any … Continue reading Collecting a Collection #1

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Drone

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This began life as a painting of a doll dressed in some sort of national costume. It was a useful bit of practice at faces and detail but not a keeper. This is the start of the eradication process and shows the elements of a big sky and some landscape detail in the bottom third. I worked on it intermittently while making the painting of the yellow crane and forgot to take photos. There was nothing particularly edifying, luckily, although I do like to document process, especially when a transformation happens without warning. In this case, having messed about with … Continue reading Drone

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Films and animations of paintings

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is an initial exploration of merging static images with moving ones, along with a prose* poetry audio track. These are old paintings, but they’ve given me some ideas. All of the elements are my own. *Every time I mention prose poetry, I look it up but I still have no idea. My working definition is that it involves text that doesn’t claim to be a poem but is structured similarly, uses words in a poetic manner – some of them unusual, flows like a stream that makes its own banks, and that has none of the rigidity of a … Continue reading Films and animations of paintings