– So Who Stuck a Knife in the Back of His or Her Hand? – For a project at Burnley’s Queen Street Mill I’ve been studying its Injury Book (1961-65) with the aim of bringing the content to life. Inspired by an episode of Life on Mars (shot in the mill where a murder case turns
AuthorAbi Goodman
@PX
Smizz & I took Re:Advertise to Ania Bas’ amazing PX event in Parson Cross yesterday. An entire day of creative participatory art in the heart of one of Sheffield’s communities. We enjoyed getting more responses to the project with words that were specially sourced from the local shops. We talked to local residents, watched Ozzie
Re:Advertise at PX event this Saturday
Re:Advertise is ready to roll in the Parson Cross area of Sheffield this Saturday. Armed with text sourced from adverts local to the area Smizz and I will be asking local residents to take the words of advertisers and use them to tell us what they really want. Here is some material on the event
Deduction
What is social history? Why is it important? How might people approach it differently? What is the role of the artist when it comes to working with social history? Magpie or educator or both? I’ve been asking myself these questions over the past few months whilst I’ve been working on a uni project for Queen
Location, Location, Location
I’m getting excited about going to Parson Cross in May to share the current results of Smizz and I’s RE:Advertise project. We spent a fabulous (if a little rainy) day out at SOAR Works on Knutton Road last week to meet with Ania. We both explored SOAR’s brilliant community enterprise centre and found out about
IWM Sketchcrawl
Had an excellent day today with Sheffield’s Sketchcrawlers at the Imperial War Museum, North. IWM is an amazing museum, tackling the realities of conflict since the 20th Century. The building was designed by Daniel Libeskind, based on a shattered globe re-worked together – a comment on how war changes everything. It was really inspirational
Re-advertising RE:Advertise
Smizz and I will be taking our RE:Advertise project up to Knutton Park Studios on Saturday 19th May to take part in an event organised by participatory artist Ania Bas. If you’d like to take part in the project do come and join us! The idea is to see if people can take the words
Making Sense Of It All
Infographics are cool….. As a geographer I’ve always had a passion for colourful diagrams that not only look good but tell you some interesting stuff about the world. I’m not sure when the word ‘infographic’ first appeared (perhaps we need an infographic on that?) but many examples can be found – old and new. Some
Resident Blogger at CAKE
I’m truly excited to have been asked to be a resident artist blogger for CAKE, my intro post is now up and more to follow. The position is part of CAKE’s QUEST programme which invites artists, designers, writers, explorers, geographers, architects, educators, public-workers, etc. who are interested in using visual language &/or collaboration as a form
England is No Longer Alone
“England is no longer alone” so reads a warning statement in the 1895 book Cotton Spinning and Weaving by Herbert E. Walmsley. The warning of the rise of competition. This was the age of steam, the industrial revolution, where workers became part of the machine. Lancashire cotton was said to clothe the world. Fast-forward to