Exploring Wonderland Exhibition

On the 8/02/16 I visited an show in the Manchester Craft and Design Centre called Exploring Wonderland which was a celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in wonderland. There was a large variety of work including home decor, jewellery, illustration, installation, sculpture, ceramics and paper cut.    

Since I did a project on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland last year it was interesting to see other peoples take on it especially since the work on display spanned so many disciplines.

I especially loved the paper cut by Fairy Made Paperart

More of her work can be found on her facebook page FairyMadePaperart

Salford zine library

On the 12th of November I went to the Salford Zine Library in the basement of the Nexus Art Cafe in Manchester. The first thing I felt when I walked in was that I was an outsider, I felt really awkward walking in just to look at the zines.

After wondering around and not being able to find where the zine library was I asked the guy at the counter. The salford zine library was through a door I assumed was staff only. 

When I got into the room there were shelves and shelves of zines stacked haphazardly on top of one another.

Not sure why this picture is sideways but this was a very small zine, probably one of the smallest in the library. The zine is called disintegration. 

I really loved the crudeness of this zine.

There was also some more lining the walls on small shelves.

This one was mostly in what in spanish (I think) and I really like how hand made this one looked.

From what I remember this one was screen printed and I really liked the limited colour palette.

I like how this one has been drawn, again rather crude.

Another crude one.

This one seemed to be portraiture based. 

I really liked the idea behind this one but not so much the execution, this zine was made from sand paper and held together with clips. I didn't like how the pictures were just stuck on and just seemed to be floating in space. 

The zine library gave me a lot of ideas to experiment with.

Sense of place #3

I used this picture in my artwork

Sense of place Wasp Factory #1

Instead of making a sense of place book I wanted to post it here instead,
Reason being I don't trust my printer to print the images at a level of quality I would like people to see when viewing my work. I will probably translate this at a later date into a paper or folder version.

So I start my sense of place with some photographs I took from my car on the way back from a day trip. The landscape reminded me of Scotland where the book The Wasp Factory is set. Since I was taking photos while going at speed some are to blurred to post.

The house in this picture made me think of the house Frank and his Father lives in apart from the fact it isn't on it's own little island, there is also a bridge over the river to get to the side which the house is.

Interesting view out of the car window

Rural  landscapes