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Archive for November, 2008

5 Day Projects

Posted: Friday, November 28th, 2008 @ 11:39 pm in Art, Fiona Long, General | No Comments »

The 5 Day Projects is a student led initiative at Wimbledon College of Art where a group of students meet in the morning and come up with a theme for the day, make some work on the theme during the day, curate the show in the afternoon and have a show and a couple of […]

Casting

Posted: Thursday, November 20th, 2008 @ 11:09 pm in Art, Fiona Long, General | No Comments »

Head Casting

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

I’ve been doing lots of casting lately under the excellent supervision of technician Kirsty Reed. She invited me to assist her in casting a head today. It’s a fascinating process…rather like some kind of torture. If the victim has a panic […]

Deutche Postbank Private View

Posted: Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 @ 7:21 pm in Art, Fiona Long, General, News | 4 Comments »

Deutche Postbank

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

Thanks to Deutche Postbank for exhibiting my work and for the very enjoyable private view of the show we had on Monday night. Thank you also to those who came to see me and my work. I was really pleased to […]

Andrew Grassie

Posted: Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 @ 6:53 pm in Art, General | 1 Comment »

Andrew Grassie lecture

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

I went to a great visiting artist’s talk last week. It was by the incredible artist Andrew Grassie. He was talking about the development of his work since he studied at the Royal College of Art. He initially tried all […]

Inflatable Street Art

Posted: Monday, November 3rd, 2008 @ 2:52 pm in Art, General | 1 Comment »

I saw this on the wonderful blog Aquamarine, written by my great friend Tara, this morning and loved it. Sometimes the most simple ideas are the most effective aren’t they? I think that the way that the ‘city‘ breathes life into the ‘trash‘ around it is so exciting!

My urban flux or urban decay paintings