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OPEN ATELIER OUVERT

First 'Open Atelier' in Belgium; Nov. 14th & 15th.

Very nice indeed!

Summer has come and passed

September was a good month!

IN HONOUR OF SEPTEMBER went well, the artists involved all did Inverness proud, and the response on the street was great.

Here are a few photos of the week. Maybe post other images later.

From L to R: Mike Inglis, Martin McGuiness, Fin Macrae, Kirsty Whiten, Richie Cumming, Al MacInnes

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Green Day - Wake Me Up Before September Ends
American Idiot (2004)

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Cool Papier Mache the Art of Strip and Pulp Paper

Papier Mache is a process of using paper strips or pulped paper to mould objects when wet and can be painted on when dry.

At one stage in my life I was very much into Paper Mache and sold my work on a stall at Spitalfields Market in London. I also sold my Paper Mache through shops, and once had a very fashionable Interior Design shop in London write to me as they wanted to display my work, but by by that time I had stopped making Paper Mache and had started concentrating more on my painting. Although I do have it in the back of my mind to start creating with paper again at some stage.

Paper Mache is a very enjoyable hobby if you have the time! and there is also a chance to earn some money from it if you want to. There are endless possibilities of what one can make with Paper Mache, you can use it to create almost anything. In Victorian times they even made furniture out of it!

I got the inspiration for some of my ideas from an extremely good Paper Mache book.This book is written for beginners but shows the work of superb Paper Mache Artists and has information on projects and designs from these Artists, unlike some books the projects are easy but at the same time look creativley artistic rather than bland. In fact I thought one of the paint effects in this book was so fab I decorated my kitchen wall with it, yes a wall of paper mache!

example of wall

The book that was so inspirational to me, it has step by step instructions and cut out patterns along with amazingly good techniques and designs it's called Papier Mache by Juliet Bawden printed in 1998. This book I found to be excellent, one of the techniques shown inspired me to do art work in this style, you can see the art work at the bottom of this page.

A few Ideas one can make out of paper mache to get your creative juices flowing, bowls, clocks, unusual individual creations, jewellery pendants, beads, mobile phone thrones (why not!), small dog thrones (there's an idea!) well people adore their pets so why not make customised dog thrones for them to sit on I bet there would be money in that! they are just a few ideas one can use for paper mache. If you have any other Ideas or know any good paper mache Artists or you are one yourself please leave a comment.

There also different kinds of texture to be made with paper. There is the smooth texture made by using the newspaper strips and then you also have paper mache pulp! ummm yumm (no please you can't eat it!) no! I just like the tasty look of the texture when paper has been pulped and then painted over, like inside my pot shown below. It gives a touchy feely appeal. One can also add textures into pulp, I have tried with sawdust, metal filings, tea leaves etc. and then you can even dye the paper you have made, I have also done this using plants, lots of experimenting and fun to be had.

Pulped Up inside my bowl

How to make a basic Paper Mache bowl similiar the one I have made above

Materials Needed:

A plastic bowl

Vaseline

Scissors

Newspaper

Wallpaper Paste

Newspaper

White Emulsion Paint

Acrylic Paint

Waterproof Varnish

Tissue/ wrapping paper

Instructions:

Tear up strips of newspaper. Torn edges give a softer edge for the paint so therefore leaves a smoother finish.

Put wallpaper paste in a bowl big enough to dunk newspaper strips in.

Rub Vaseline all over the inside of the bowl. this will help the paper to peel off when finished.

Dip the newspaper strips into the wallpaper paste and start layering all over the inside of the bowl, Continue to layer, layer upon layer, do more if you would like a thicker bowl

Then leave to dry for a few hours preferable overnight to make sure totally dry.

When dry carefully pull the paper mache bowl away from the plastic bowl, if need be cut then layer some more bits of newspaper over the rim of the bowl to seal the edges, wait until dry and then paint with white emulsion paint as the base colour, the emulsion paint is used as a primer ready to paint your unique design on.

Have a look at pattern books in the library for Ideas on what design to use for your bowl, also a fun thing to do is take a sketch book and go and find all the interesting bits of architecture you can find and sketch the patterns you see within the architecture. There is a Jewellery Designer whose designs are all inspired by the architecture she sees in and around London, it's amazing what you can see in architecture when you look!

Or you can even paint all over the outside with one colour, and then stick designs from a wrapping paper in a decoupage style as decoration on the outside of the bowl, and then paint the inside another colour and stick smaller images from the same paper on the inside. Then use waterproof varnish to cover the whole of the bowl to seal it. I would say that the wrapping paper would probably be better if it was really thin such as tissue wrapping paper, enabling it to flatten against the bowl.

Have fun.

It would be great if this article has inspired you to make some Paper Mache creations, please leave a comment if you have been inspired and if you have created anything I would love to see it!

Paper Mache Inspired Art Some great books on Paper Mache

Papier Mache Style
Papier-Mache Today

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So come and dance with me...

It appears someone has got the wrong end of the stick and feels a little left out of the circle of love...

But glad to see that it inspired a little more graffiti! Photo is a bit dodgy (on the iphone...)

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Franz Ferdinand - Michael
Franz Ferdinand (2004)

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I'll save my good side for you

A new entry will appear shortly - just giving you the heads-up that "In Honour Of September" has been completed. The project was one part of Re:Imagining The Centre in Inverness and ran from the 9th to the 12th September. By all accounts a great success and from our point of view was great to work with some of our friends from Rough Cut Nation again.
Will have a longer blog up in the next few days! In the meantime - if you are in Inverness its worth going to see the mix of work on show on Barron Taylor Street and Lombard Street...it'll be worth the effort.

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The Elected - 7th September 2003
Me First (2004)

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Who knows where the time goes?

Wow - where does time go?! Not a metaphysical question by the way, just an observation that so much seems to have happened over the last few months and that we have had hardly any time to breathe either individually in our own work or collectively as DUFI.

So first things first, The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. Rough Cut Nation opened on the 7th August with crowds of people coming to see the work. Over 1000 people through the doors that day with people queuing to get in is pretty good...To say that the whole project has been a success would be an understatement! Richie Cumming and his team have done a fabulous job of curating and organising this show. It would be difficult to pick out highlights for us, as the whole show really is a collective effort. A mix of traditional freehand, stencil, sticker, paste-ups and throw-ups as well as sculpture, new technologies with work overlapping and spaces literally bleeding into each other.

Just a delight to work with the guys and girls there with a distinct lack of egos despite some serious talent on show...thanks everyone!

From a personal point of view we are both really happy with our own piece within the show and with the creative decisions we made along the way - either on our own or in consultation with the other artists. It was a challenge to work at such a large scale with a hand cut stencil but it was rewarding work as well (Even if we did cause a major disruption to the project by laying on 4 cans of paint in about 15 minutes!! Thankfully all was sorted and things could go on).

The response from you good folk out there was phenomenal - we got over three times as many words as we could use for the artwork and it was difficult to narrow it down to something we thought would be representative of the diverse views expressed. It was also a challenge to work out the best way to group these words, and in the end we decided to list them in alphabetic order - It just seemed that it would be too contrived to do it any other way and even a random selection would seem ordered!

What next? Well a couple of smaller projects we have to finish and then we will be working with a few folk from Rough Cut Nation on the Re:Imagining The Centre project in Inverness in September. Richie Cumming, Mike Inglis, Machism and Kirsty Whiten will all be coming to play with us which will be fun! Will give more details soon...

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Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Unhalfbricking (1969)

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Less than a command, more than a suggestion

Thank you all for your contributions to our Jesus questionaire. The exhibtion in The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, is now open and is getting a lot of footfall.

We will post images of the finished piece shortly, but to whet your appetite...

"There’s something gloriously comical about watching visitors walking round asking one another what it all means, and nodding appreciatively at a gigantic hoodie Jesus (‘divine and divisive’, according to the lady with the blue rinse)."
Lizzie Mitchell | The List (Issue 637)
18 August 2009

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Gena Rowlands Band - FuckUps Of The World Unite

Flesh & Spirits (2007)

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Art Sanctuary moved from SL to RL

ART SANCTUARY is making dreams come true - in RL

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The very Best Greetings to all Liminals!

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Your own personal Jesus...

The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland will be hosting an exhibition later this year entitled Rough Cut Nation.

This unique multimedia project draws together a group of young artists from around Scotland to create a dramatic collaborative installation. For the Edinburgh Festival they will construct a remixed version of Scottish history as informed by street art and graffiti culture, painted, pasted and projected directly onto the walls of the Portrait Gallery.

The project updates William Hole's original decorative mural scheme of 1889-1898, depicting important events from Scotland's past. This new installation exploits the empty space produced by the Gallery's current closure for redevelopment.

As one of the artist duos involved we are interested in exploring religious iconography and the use of Jesus as a moral or social catalyst within both Scottish history and contemporary culture.

With that in mind we would like to ask you three questions:

1. Jesus- who/what was he?
2. Scotland - what (if any) impact has he had on Scotland's history?
3. What impact has Jesus had on Scotland past, present and future?

If you only want to respond to one of the questions, that would be fine. A single word or a couple of words answer is perfect - but if you want to write more then please feel free to do so. The crucial thing is to gather opinion from a broad range of people of all beliefs (or non-beliefs).

The answers that we collect from these questions will potentially form part of the final artwork, but will not be attributed to any one individual.

Please give your answers either in the comments section below or email them to DUFI.JESUS@GMAIL.COM

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Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Strange Too (1990)

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Maybe it's alright to turn you on - turn you on to something new

Our trip South to the East Midlands was an adventure and well worth the effort. We spent a good couple of days gathering some information about the town and also getting a feel for the place as well as meeting some of the good folk of Alvaston. We do mean "good folk" - we were made most welcome and found people enthused by the idea of regeneration in the place they love to call home. We are looking forward to putting our final proposal together and then hope we are selected ... we know we could all create something that we can be proud of!

As regular site visitors know, our blog titles almost always revolve around lyrics or song titles. Try as we might we couldn't find any for Alvaston although we did get Glen Campbells "Galveston" - a blast from the past for me (what is it about growing up in the Highlands and country music?!) Anyhow, the blog title are lyrics from a track called "Jet Set" by a rather good band called Derby from Portland, Oregon (home of many a good band...). Think these lyrics represent something of what we feel about the place.

Rather than giving a rundown of everything we did, we have written OUR LIST - a short collection of some highlights...

OUR LIST
- no. 43 Bus
- baseball caps
- £3.50 turkey dinner at The Blue Peter
- sweet corn growing in the allotments
- John and Lucky the dog
- pint of Tetley's
- trying to buy The Scotsman at David's newsagents
- Pride Park
- 'bab shop and biggest "small" kebab ever (thanks J and Shazz)
- Swift Cabs
- caramel doughnut from Bird's bakers
- "because it's home"
- armed robbery at The Derbyshire!
- meeting folk and the buzz in The Mind shop
- skylink from the airport, perfect for getting to Alvaston
- rain downpour and rainbows
- South Gate Youth Centre and the most aptly named worker "Tank" (built like one!)
- working man's club
- double vodka and sparkling apple
- being questioned on why we weren't wearing kilts by AORTA
- hippopotamus bone sculpture
- Bonnie Prince Charlie
- councillors you can speak to!
- making plans in the pub...
- old Horrace at the Alvaston Boulton OAP Club
- Derby Pride
- parking problems...
- "Alvo girls"
- trolley bus
- "Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred, Strong i' th' arm, and weak i' th' head."
- take it or leave it
- 1866
- Derby Telegraph
- a HUGE breakfast from Big Breakfast!
- "honest and down to earth"

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Derby - Jet Set

This Is The New You (2005)

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Art Sanctuary for sale

WELCOME!

- and yes, we are considering selling the Art Sanctuary Isle;

The Isle as a whole - buildings and painting collection included!

A Magical and wonderful place for events and gatherings;

- Stage for concerts

- A turning 'astrological' dance floor

- A chariot pulled by seahorses to take you all around the isle!

- A poetic castle to get lost in:) with a balcony high in the sky!

- A Sun Flower house filled with moments

- Frog Castle with a wishing well

- Magical Apple Trees changing colours at your touch!

- And gates to stir your imagination

- Secret rooms and hideaways

- A swing to bring you higher than high!

- A little house to sit and ponder in

- Dolphins singing and playing

- Of course a sailing boat to bring you around the isle:)

- And A gallery to host changing exhibitions

Please inquire at this email: ton-aan@online.no (my Im's are constantsly getting capped!)
- We hope to find a loving new owner!

Best greetings, Raspirit Heron and WieBenIk Beaumont

WELCOME! - and yes, we are considering selling the Art Sanctuary Isle;

The Isle as a whole is an art work -

Please inquire at this email: ton-aan@online.no

(my Im's are constantly getting capped!)

- We hope to find a loving new owner!

Best greetings,

Raspirit Heron and WieBenIk Beaumont

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'Til there's a ghost in every town...

The works on Baron Taylor Street (BTS), in Inverness, are now well underway. We have been working with the kids at Cauldeen Primary and they have come up with some great poems - two of which we are placing into the stonework on BTS. There will be a poem at each end of the street, sandblasted into the edges of a large central drainage channel.

The first poem went is just before Christmas, and the second will be installed in the next few weeks.

The pupils also came up with five word pairs for us, one of which will be placed next to each of the drains on BTS.

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Elliot Smith - Can't Make A Sound
Figure 8 (2000)

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Tone and Ignace are proud that "The Official Site of Tone Aanderaa" is ready and operational (http://www.tone-aanderaa.site88.net).

The website contains paintings, poems of Tone, tell stories about her life, give up-to-date information about upcoming events. The information continuously updates with new paintings, new poems, news, walkthrough through exhibitions ... and offers will be available.

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