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Part 1 Form and gesture

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Exercise 1 Temporary patterns Frankly, this warm-up exercise put the frighteners on me so much as to induce brain-freeze. No pencils, no paper, nothing familiar at all about making patterns that disappear in a moment. Why is that alarming? Well, just because, that’s why. The solution was to jump headlong into it*, preferably before I had my eyes open and while that lump of cells in my skull was still chugging along in one of its sleep rhythms, hence this is the most domestic of pattern sets – the breakfast routine. The first, strictly speaking, was not made by me, … Continue reading Part 1 Form and gesture

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Discovery

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This should have been obvious and if I’d held my horses instead of plunging headlong into getting a blog up and running (procrastination, I suspect, beats getting the frighteners by looking at an actual assignment) it would have dawned at a more timely point in the process. This course is Drawing 1, and it’s called that because there will be a Drawing 2. Also a Painting 1 and a Painting 2, another unit I haven’t chosen yet, and a final year negotiated element. That’s six different units with six different sets of requirements and WordPress can only accommodate one template … Continue reading Discovery

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First Post

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

In case you have stumbled in here from somewhere else and you’re wondering what this is about, this is my obligatory first post under the auspices of the OCA BA(Hons) Fine Art degree. If you stick around, there’s likely to be all kinds of art work pitching up, some of it humiliatingly inept, but some I’ll be proper chuffed with. We might even agree on which is which sometimes! This isn’t my only WordPress blog, so you’d think setting it up would be a doddle, but this is a course template with its own categories so I’m not sure yet … Continue reading First Post