Carolyn Black

Substack post based on a presentation that was not delivered.

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Studio Notes – review of 2024 – and intention for 2025

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Reflections on A 3-day workshop about experimental printmaking at The Yard Print Studio

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Letter to a Rock

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Letting Go & Holding It Together

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Something Between Us – Anna Cady, Nick Grellier, Carolyn Black

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Studio notes: it’s about time

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My last studio notes blogpost was November 2022 – nearly a year ago!

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Climate change: we are on the cusp of turning a corner, but we don’t know what we’re going to see.

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Original Print Fair – Postponed until next year

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Gold, ice and alchemy – of soot, heat and water

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Inspired by Ingold – Dear Red Rock

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farOpen Studios 1-9th July 2023 – Studio no.18

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Ai-Da, artist, robot, woman??

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Body erodes, memory erases & covid erupts

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Watermark exhibition presented by Meadow Arts – various venues

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Studio Thinking Part 2 – looking from the past to the future

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Studio practice Part 1 – stop, reflect and review

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Heatwave drawings and films – of fire and flood

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Hello world! The birds and wifi have reconnected me!

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Sharing territories – learning from the birds

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Tidying up my studio, listening to Norton lecture by William Kentridge

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blackbirds & blackboards

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Two exhibitions – one either side of the Severn – last chance to see them

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Newsletter February 28th 2022

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The impact of climate change on marginal plants on the banks of the River Severn

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Banking on things – gambling with the Earth

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sunspots in my eyes, sunrise over the Severn

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Severn Flooding 2030 landscape shifts from rising sea levels

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Gelli print workshop book now

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Blackbird story for Christmas.

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Pecking Order – a film & a text

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together apart – new film by Eva Rune and Carolyn Black

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Prospecting Now & Then – future flooding – imagine

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ArtistSupportPledge and ASPshows – works for sale

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Blackbird, on being human or non-human, responsibilities and liabilities. What animals teach us.

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Bev ‘D’ – dredger at Lydney Harbour – a poetic machine in action

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A Tidal Life documented using graphite putty

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Strange times, do you find it hard to keep your eye on the horizon? Gazing at a river may help.

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The seen and the unseen – no.1 distraction

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Update on exhibitions

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Moving on – remembering what motivated me to move home last time….

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From the archive: Art and the Body Obsolete

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If I’m not here you can find me on Substack!

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Pressed and Pulled: construction, deconstruction and reconstruction

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The Scale of Things: Small Stone In Each Hand

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