Artcore Gallery adds school pupils’ art to Stephen Iliffe’s prestigious exhibition

27 September 2024
Artcore Gallery adds school pupils’ art to Stephen Iliffe’s prestigious exhibition

Artwork from the Royal School for the Deaf Derby will be shown alongside internationally renowned deaf photographer Stephen Iliffe’s major new photography exhibition at the Artcore Gallery. It will be open from Friday 4 October to Saturday 2 November 2024 and will highlight the achievements of deaf people. In a historic first-ever exhibition about the deaf community to be hosted in Derby, Deaf Mosaic will […]

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Back to Derby

17 June 2024

Dear Passengers open studio clip Dear Passengers from Lange Nacht open studio Back in Derby with lots of work to do. Only 4 weeks to the exhibition opening, counting this week, install week and a week when I am going to the sound conference in London. I need to get a move on! I now have […]

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Underage Drinking: Alcohol Poisoning, Binge Drinking, Drinking Age

15 December 2023

Naturally, you may wonder how much alcohol you have to drink to get to that point. The answer depends on your sex, age, body mass, metabolism, the type of alcohol, and more. More research needs to be done on people, but the effects of long-term heavy alcohol use are already well-known. Excessive alcohol also affects […]

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“The Silence of Growing Things” Residency in Bengaluru, India

8 November 2023
“The Silence of Growing Things” Residency in Bengaluru, India

Exciting Update! After reviewing applications from 70 artists across the UK, we’re pleased to introduce the finalists for “The Silence of Growing Things” residency in Bengaluru, India, hosted by Artcore. Our finalists are Freya Gabie and Arjuna Keshvani-Ham. Freya Gabie, a sculpture graduate from Chelsea College of Art and the Royal College of Art, is known […]

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Derbys sites of interest and Collections

20 October 2023
Derbys sites of interest and Collections

I was able to visit the Royal Crown Derby Museum where we were given the tour of the collection by the museums curator Elizabeth Woledge, thanks to fellow resident Hayley Blackwell who organised it. Stand out pieces for me were the eggshell cup and saucer – so delicate literally felt like holding an egg shell, […]

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Learning some new skills with Kathryn

7 October 2023
Learning some new skills with Kathryn

Monoprint and underglaze transfer workshop with Kathryn Borg. Kathryn very kindly showed me some new decorating techniques using coloured slips and underglazes. First we created an underglaze transfer using paper (it needs to be thin paper like newspaper/rice paper). We used black underglaze in a squeezy applicator bottle, sketched an image on the paper then […]

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Settling in

7 October 2023

I’ve been settling into the studio and getting acquainted with the spaces at Artcore. Its certainly daunting starting a new project knowing the time constraints of the residency and the space we need to fill for the exhibition. Its such a wonderful space to showcase our work that I want to make sure I do […]

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The beginning

5 October 2023

My proposal for this residency is to deep drive into the processes and people behind the design and manufacture of the prestigious and historical company Royal Crown Derby, which is based in the heart of the city. It is a family run business employing people from the Derby community. I have envisioned many hands to […]

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Inspiration and exploration

22 September 2023
Inspiration and exploration

The first week of the residency involved visiting Derby to meet the Artcore Team and being shown the two sites they have, I had never been to Artcore before, so it was good to see the gallery at Albert Street and then the space at Charnwood street where we will be working for the next […]

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A celebration of Peace at Artcore Gallery

4 September 2023
A celebration of Peace at Artcore Gallery

Join us in a celebration of Peace at Artcore Gallery on Thursday September 21st 10:00-13:00 Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on the 21st September, this is a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace. We will be supporting International Peace day at Artcore Gallery: Between 10:00-11:30 artist […]

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Circling

31 May 2023

Still working of the image of the rapeseed field in Wales. It has been a huge challenge trying to create a large image from a really small one. It has changed from the first image as it was planned.  I am not sure why I get drawn to making circles when working on this size. […]

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Möbius and The Tale of Sisyphus

29 May 2023
Möbius and The Tale of Sisyphus

I thought I would share two of my current, major inspirations to help viewers better understand the ideas behind my work. Particularly this body of work. You may notice a particular shape, or the idea of a loop, cropping up often. I’ve realised that a lot of the work I’ve made is in response to […]

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