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Collage work

27/7/2013

I collect (/hoard) paper and images but I don't collage as much as I would like. Here are some collage pieces that I've done fairly recently.

The last piece is inspired by the 'Schwitters in Britain' exhibition that was on at Tate Britain in the spring (particularly Untitled (With an Early Portrait of Kurt Schwitters) and 47. 15 Pine Trees c 26.)

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Egg

18/7/2013

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Watercolour, pencil.

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Winged spirit

15/7/2013

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A drawing of an apsara (Buddhist/Hindu mythological female spirit of the clouds and water) inspired by a print by Katsushika Hokusai.

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Night Shift

11/7/2013

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A drawing based on the poem 'Night Shift' by Helen Mort.

I wish I’d been born in the dark.
Not the punctured black of evening sky,

or the shadows in a lightless house by night,
not a blindfold or a cave of bats,

the gloom of a closing storm,
not even the dark behind your purple eyelids,

but true dark,
the dark of the body inside,

an ocean floor without the green of ocean
where I’d learn to feel properly –

tongue, hands, toes,
even my eyelashes probing the air.

And when at last they hauled me out,
a squinting, dazzled paleface,

sunshine would grate like sandpaper,
I’d be split by light that cuts to the quick

and every night would dream my sightless dreams,
each dawn a curtain.

Boys, staring through telescopes
at all the constellations, would make me weep;

each tear the casting down of stones,
waiting for a click that never answers.

Helen Mort

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Earring Board

5/7/2013

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I needed somewhere to hang my hoop earrings and rings so I painted a piece of board and screwed cup hooks into it. I guess it seems quite different from the sort of thing I have in my portfolio, but I've always painted wooden items (from chests of drawers to matryoshka dolls) for friends and family so it is something I find easy and satisfying. I'm quite into William Morris and Owen Jones' Chinese Ornament patterns at the moment so I just painted straight onto the board this floral design. It's a little bit cute and housewifey but I think it works.

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Orbit Ever After

3/7/2013

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Check out the link below - earlier this year I worked on the set for short film 'Orbit Ever After', commissioned by the BFI and written and directed by my talented friend Jamie Stone - this is the trailer. I'm really excited to see the full length film which should be out this summer.

http://vimeo.com/69617686

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Collage work

Egg

Winged spirit

Night Shift

Earring Board

Orbit Ever After

Katie McCurrach

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