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MA Exhibition Set Up!
I had a really great day setting up for my final MA exhibition at St Martins, Granary Square. The atmosphere was surprisingly calm and I...
rachelthompson63
Jun 25, 20242 min read
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Robert Macfarlane's Work - on deep time, landscape and ancestry
"Paths run through people as surely as they run through places" Having read 'The Old Ways' during year 1, I was so struck with the way in...
rachelthompson63
Apr 18, 20245 min read
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Curator interview: Beneath Our Feet Exhibition
The Old English word “dustsceawung” means, literally, “a contemplation of dust.” It’s an understanding not of what’s been lost, or the...
rachelthompson63
Mar 27, 20243 min read
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Selected Reading on Archaeology, Anthropology and Burial
Home - by Francis Pryor Stone - by Jeffrey Cohen The Dominion of the Dead - by Robert Pogue Harrison Before sourcing these book, and...
rachelthompson63
Mar 22, 202410 min read
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Anatomical drawings of the brain by Neuroscientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/totally-wired Amazing historic drawings of the brain's pathways by Santiago Ramon Grey....
rachelthompson63
Mar 21, 20242 min read
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Ancient Site Visits
Bartlow Hills Roman Burial Site, Cambridgeshire Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire Silbury Hill, Wiltshire The Sanctuary stone circle,...
rachelthompson63
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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Artists research: Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson
"Such returns, where “pieces of past and present mesh”, have repeatedly recurred in Holt’s life" Trail Markers: A series of twenty...
rachelthompson63
Feb 29, 20243 min read
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Geological Mapping
https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2021/11/26/rocks-rediscovered/ I've been looking at the forms and shapes in old geological maps. I...
rachelthompson63
Nov 15, 20233 min read
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Drink and Draw workshop!
As part of researching the wellbeing benefits of drawing, I invited a group of friends over to 'test out' some somatic and mindful...
rachelthompson63
Nov 7, 20231 min read
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The Anthropological Importance of Ritual Gatherings
Selected readings on the subject of gatherings from an anthropological/ethnographic perspective. 'Community events provide a space in...
rachelthompson63
Nov 1, 20235 min read
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Experiments with Masking
This began as using simple torn pieces of paper, which I then painted a wash over. I was trying to create some spaces within a page, that...
rachelthompson63
Oct 31, 20233 min read
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A Circular Walk and Psychogeography
I looked into the principle ideas behind psychogeography for my research paper and have found it really interesting to find an actual...
rachelthompson63
Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Unearthing Exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery
In this exhibition, ten modern and contemporary artists engage in processes of unearthing to explore complex histories, geographies, and...
rachelthompson63
Sep 26, 20231 min read
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Tate Britain: Ithell Colquhoun and Turner
I wanted to see a painting by Colquhoun in person as I'm writing about it in part of my research paper. It was certainly interesting to...
rachelthompson63
Aug 22, 20233 min read
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Visit to Avebury Stone Circle
This summer I visited Avebury stone circle. It was serendipitous that a gathering had been organised for the exact time we visited so I...
rachelthompson63
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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Magic and the Occult
To find out some wider content to the work of Ithell Colquhoun, I'm reading a couple of books that explore the magic and the occult, both...
rachelthompson63
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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Open Studios July 2023
Having open studios fall just after the end of term, at a time when I'm re defining my direction has been very useful. Although there are...
rachelthompson63
Jun 23, 20233 min read
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André Breton and the Manifesto of Surrealism
‘Pure psychic automatism ... the dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason and outside all moral or...
rachelthompson63
May 31, 20232 min read
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Automatism and the techniques used by Ithell Colquhoun
"In art, automatism refers to creating art without conscious thought, accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the...
rachelthompson63
May 20, 20236 min read
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Psychogeography
I've been reading more about Psychogeography in relation to my research paper and found a good book in the UAL e library by Merlin...
rachelthompson63
May 20, 20233 min read
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