tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37800888050860705452024-03-05T11:46:42.756+00:00The Blog of Laura Grain - Artist MakerLaura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-23181862389486153662013-09-04T00:26:00.000+01:002013-09-04T00:28:59.001+01:00Escape to the Cotswolds<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">A few weeks ago The husband and me went for a little camping getaway to the cotswolds. We stayed in a fantastic campsite in Slimbridge. Having arrived in the brilliant sunshine we get out our tent and just that moment the heavens open and down comes the rain. Torrential rain. There was so much rain in fact that once we actually managed to get the tent up I had to bail out 23 mugfuls of rainwater that had nicely gathered INSIDE the tent. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Anyway once we were all set up looking out over a field full of sheep, watching the geese fly overhead and hearing the squawks of the flamingos over at the wetlands we relaxed quite nicely! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If you are ever down that way I recommend visiting the <a href="http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/slimbridge/" target="_blank">Wetlands</a>, and if your a big child at heart like me then I definitely recommend in shelling out the £1 to buy some bird feed oh and spending a little more money on getting lost on the canoe safari. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My husband had some great entertainment watching me wade through a steam determined to retrieve myself a beautiful flamingo feather. I got a few strange looks and scratched my arm up all in the name of collecting. </span></div>
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Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-50181923573533045512013-07-02T17:50:00.000+01:002013-07-02T17:50:38.789+01:00Chair Stories...<div style="text-align: center;">
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In the <a href="http://from-laura-with-love.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-curiosity-chair.html" target="_blank">last post</a> I talked about the stories left by visitors that got involved with my work at the <a href="http://craftsatboveytracey.co.uk/" target="_blank">Contemporary Craft Festival</a>, Devon. </div>
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I finally got them all uploaded to my website today so come on over and have a nose at them! </div>
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Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-18049482620073774642013-07-01T19:33:00.001+01:002013-07-01T19:33:48.585+01:00The Curiosity Chair <br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Collections and those that Collect them fascinate me, and reoccur often as the basis for my work. Their obsessive nature makes for a pretty interesting character trait that resonates with so many of us. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">With my latest work, The curiosity chair, I wanted to create a piece that would conjure up a character in peoples minds, and encourage them to create their own story about the history of this unusual chair. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This piece was a massive undertaking for me as I have not done a great deal of carpentry before, and this involved many different techniques, as well as upholstering with leather for the first time. Time was the other massive factor in the making of this piece as I wanted somewhere to show the chair where people could interact with it and contribute to the piece by way of their own story, as part of Hothouse we were offered to exhibit as the Contemporary Craft Festival in Devon, and I decided this would be an interesting place to engage with the public. I asked visitors to write down their own stories about the chairs origin and stick them up on my story wall.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It was fantastic to see all the different reactions I got from people at the festival from all ages, from looks of pure wonder, to confusion, even to anger!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I am currently working on a way to use all the great stories I collected, so if you have your own story you would like to add to my collection, about the history of the chair, who owned it? what did they keep in it? where was it kept? please contact me <a href="http://www.lauragrain.com/contact.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-28627693624661392502013-03-19T10:55:00.000+00:002013-03-19T10:57:49.111+00:00Sentimental? Me? Never!<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Everyone has at least one of those objects, you know the one, the thing that is pretty useless but for some reason you just can’t get rid of it. Every time you clean out your house somehow it survives the cull. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have many, many objects like this. Things I just can’t bring myself to throw away. Like many girls, given the opportunity I would have a wardrobe full of shoes! Except mine might look a little different to what you might imagine a shoe wonderland to look like, there are no pristine boxes or glossy high heels. No, mine are old, a bit grotty and unusable unless you like cold, wet feet. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My Bertie’s. I actually have an older, grottier pair of shoes, but I have a particular soft spot for these. They have survived even the strictest of spring cleans. I would have even more old pairs of unusable shoes if I had more space, and my mum hadn’t thrown several pairs away when I was living with her. My poor nine west school shoes *sob*. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Who knows why I have a strange attachment to these? Perhaps they have too much character for me to say goodbye. Maybe they have too many stories to tell? Either way I’m glad I hung on to them, because I am going to use them as a starting point for a new project. For this project I need people like you!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Do YOU have such an object or objects? I want to know about them. I am looking for people who are willing to show me their ‘I just can’t get rid of them’ objects, have themselves and these objects photographed (preferably in the place they are generally kept) and have a conversation about these objects. </span></div>
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Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-48305954397645641142013-02-18T11:41:00.000+00:002013-02-18T11:41:01.482+00:00An Alternative view of the Horniman<br />
Last Saturday I dragged the other half out, in the pouring rain to go to the <a href="http://www.horniman.ac.uk/">Horniman Museum</a>. He is pretty used to being taken around exhibitions and museums by now; hearing me waffle on about new idea's in the process. Luckily for him he is not embarrassed to stand there while I take pictures of things that I'm quite sure the museum never intended to be photographed (mostly because he grew up with his dad doing the same thing!)<br />
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A long time ago (only about 2 and half years actually, but it feels like forever) I made some glasses for a project for uni, they were pretty well received so I decided to turn them into jewellery and see if they would sell. As much as I originally liked them, and did sell a few I was never that of proud of them.<br />
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I already had a few idea's on how to improve them to something I could be proud of and when <a href="http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/museumandgalleries/shirehallgalleries/Exhibitions/home.aspx">Shire Hall Gallery</a> contacted me about being part of an exhibition I decided it was time to actually do it!</div>
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Introducing the 'Telescope Brooch' and the 'Monocle necklace'...</div>
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I'm not planning on making more of these for the time being as I want to concentrate on my installation work and getting my practice up and running so get them while you can! They are available from my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/FromLauraWithLove?ref=si_shop">Etsy</a> or <a href="http://folksy.com/shops/FromLauraWithLove">Folksy</a> stores (as they are one offs there are different ones listed on the different sites).</div>
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Back in Oct/Nov I received an email telling me I had been selected for the <a href="http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/about-us/press-room/view/2012/hothouse-south-west-makers-selected/">Craft Council's Hothouse scheme</a>. I have attempted to explain what Hothouse is many times now and I'm really not very good at explaining it so I'm going to use the Crafts Council's explanation instead!<br />
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So far I've participated in three sessions, all quite intense! My view of my business and where I want to push myself has pretty much completely changed already so who knows what I'll be doing by the end of it!<br />
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Anyway thats enough of me rambling, Here is a good overview of all this years Hothouser's and their work;<br />
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I decided that I wanted research to be a big part of my project, so I was looking for a collection of objects that had an interesting history, and I came across The Foundling Museum Tokens<br />
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* as a side note there is currently an exhibition of these tokens at the <a href="http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events/view/fate-hope-and-charity/">Foundling Museum</a>, worth a look (I haven't managed to get there yet but am hoping to go this week) follow the link above to read about these tokens.<br />
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What was most interesting about these tokens was not the objects themselves or even the stories behind them, although that was the lure of them to start with, it was people's reaction to them that most excited me.<br />
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I decided to explore this in my own pieces, so I chose an object, a child's chair and decided to recreate this object over and over, using different materials and processes, and then exhibit them as a group to see what people's reaction would be to each object. <br />
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Some people reacted very strongly to certain chairs, the fabric chair probably had the funniest reactions when people realised it wasn't made of burnt wood, one guy even had a go at me for 'tricking' him!<br />
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Wow, I guess leaving this post this long has it's benefits. If I had written this just after doing the project this description would have been much, much longer!Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-85201922761399907912012-07-02T23:57:00.003+01:002013-02-12T13:56:08.314+00:002nd Minor - Final Pieces<div style="text-align: left;">
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My second minor project was based on a series on found photographs.</div>
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With my favourite of the patterns (the slides) I decided to create an installation piece referencing the way in which hoarding can overtake a persons life, to the extent that even the most simple everyday tasks become impossible. </div>
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After much striping of paint, sanding, re-staining, diamond tufting, and upholstering I finished part one of my first Minor Project, my Extruded Chair. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After all the research into collecting that I had done for my dissertation I decided to take a different angle for my practical work, but still very much connected to it, so for my first ‘Minor’ project (I hate that it’s called that, it didn't feel ‘minor’ when I was doing all that work!!) I looked into hoarding...</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I knew that I wanted to do a bit more drawing this year as I hadn’t done an awful lot of drawing for a while and so to jump start my idea’s I went around listening to peoples conversations and finding photographs. From hints within these conversations and pictures I drew up imaginary collections that these people could own (although I had no idea what I was going to do with them!). The items within these ‘collections’ are everyday objects and are more often associated with hoarding than collecting (other than the postcards...they just slipped in somehow!). Can an everyday commodity be part of a collection?</span></div>
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Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-9657063519528942062012-01-21T14:30:00.000+00:002013-02-12T13:58:12.658+00:00Remember me!?<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Long time no see... </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have been crazy busy for the last fews months writing my dissertation and doing two ridiculously ambitious projects, so have had no time to update my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In order to catch up I’m thinking that </span>I should spilt the posts up instead of creating one stupidly long post...</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well for the last half of the summer I was helping out the lovely <a href="http://www.clairebrewster.co.uk/">Claire Brewster</a> helping out and getting ready for Origin. It was great to see how she works and actually see the reality of making it out in the real world as an artist. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You should definitely check out her work, it’s gorgeous and all meticulously cut by hand! I’ve now even got one of my very own! </span></div>
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After finishing the second year of my degree and the 'Applied' Exhibition that I organised in Rochester, I finally had time to sort out the mess of my flat. </div>
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Two day's, four completely full bin bags of rubbish, one and a half bin liners for charity shop and two massive boxes taken too my mum and dad's attic later and I finally have my flat back!! </div>
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I also finally got around to putting up the photo wall in my bedroom :D</div>
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Form June 17th til August 19th 2011 some of my work will be exhibited in </div>
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If your in Rochester over the summer pop in and have a look :)</div>
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This is Cristina Vezzini's Work (she graduated last year)</div>
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This is Rhiannon Higgins and Sophie Monger's work.</div>
Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-21579003904470036642011-06-20T13:01:00.000+01:002013-02-12T14:01:03.592+00:00The Exhibition! (PICTURE HEAVY!!)<div style="text-align: center;">
The exhibition is all finished and I can finally relax a bit! </div>
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(well I need to get on with writing my dissertation, but I think i'll have a few days off!)</div>
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Last night we opened our exhibition with a private view. </div>
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Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-62621698567215891342011-06-03T16:54:00.001+01:002013-02-12T14:02:55.435+00:00What to do with 23 things??Been a busy week organising everything for the <a href="http://from-laura-with-love.blogspot.com/2011/05/applied-exhibition.html">exhibition</a> in a couple of weeks. So I thought I would take a break and show you my last project, and my working process.<br />
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This was the result of my 23 Rings project, where I made <a href="http://www.laura-bell.co.uk/">23 Rings</a> (my age - in case you were wondering!) each with a souvenir from my life, I then held an event inviting people to come and take a ring in exchange for something from their own life, something precious to them.<br />
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Then, I had the vastly underestimated task of creating a series of jewellery from these pieces. I begun with the idea of manipulating the object to tell the story of the memory.<br />
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I found that this was much to limiting and I felt that it wasn't dealing with the underlying issues, the fact that these items were precious to people, and that they had been <u>given up</u>.<br />
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I then came up with the idea of a wearable museum vitrine in which there would only be a trace of the object that had been left behind. It also meant that as the wearer you would be the only person to see the trace of object, everyone else just sees an empty box, bringing it back to the idea of a personal object.<br />
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Another piece of work that will be in the <a href="http://from-laura-with-love.blogspot.com/2011/05/applied-exhibition.html">'AppLIED' exhibition </a></div>
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What is it? A nice easy one for you!</div>
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I am organising an exhibition to show off the amazing work created by my year at uni, and also to highlight the very BAD decision made by our university to cancel the Applied Arts course. </div>
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An amazing piece by Natalie Sampson - Can you guess what it is?</div>
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As I have had so much work on the last couple of weeks not had much time to blog, but hopefully will be back on it when I am finished for the year (not long now! Yay!) So I thought I would give you a sneak peek into my world the last few days.</div>
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Looks like some sort of sinister operation, doesn't it? It's really just me glueing together glass!</div>
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Will explain what the whole project is in the next couple of days when they are all photographed and looking lovely. </div>
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P.S. I am organising an Exhibition of my work and others on my course from the 14th-18th of June in Rochester. It should be really good, some great work being made, so put the date in your diaries! More info on that to follow too. </div>
Laura Grainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14945526817229991179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780088805086070545.post-42017826243738976962011-04-26T21:08:00.002+01:002013-02-12T14:06:48.291+00:00A tasty memory...People that know me will know that I love to cook! And well there are those recipes that you use and use and then somewhere along the line they get forgotten.<br />
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Tonight I made one of these recipes, for the first time in 3 years! The last time I made this recipe was, in fact, on my honeymoon. (I can't quite get over the fact I've been married for three years already!)<br />
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There was actually some logic behind not making this recipe anymore, because frankly I don't think you can do this recipe justice using ingredients from this country, but it still tastes pretty amazing! It does take a bit of time to prep though, but I think it's worth it, it's such a lovely summery dish. Much, much better than bought sauces (or tinned tomatoes, honest!)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">400-500g Cherry Tomatoes (works best with a variety of different ripeness and colours)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1 packet of pancetta diced (or 6 rashers of normal or smoked bacon, I have tried all and they are all good!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1 Knob of butter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1 Onion</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">2 Garlic Cloves</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">200g Pasta (Orecchiette works well but is hard to find, so any of your favourite pasta will work)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Fresh Oregano (again often hard to find in supermarkets, parsley is nice too)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Fresh Parmesan (I left this out today, as I am on a diet!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Put all the tomatoes in a bowl and blanch them in boiling water, this is to make it easier to get the skin off the tomato (often the skin won't spilt so while they are in the boiling water I prick them with a sharp knife which makes them split)</span><br />
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While making this tonight all could think about was Italy :) oh how I wish I was back in Umbria! We stayed at <a href="http://casasangabriel.com/">Casa San Gabriel </a> which I would highly recommend. As soon as I am no longer a poor student I will be saving up to go back.<br />
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As I'm sharing this recipe (the first of many probably!) I thought I would share some photo's too!<br />
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The Beauty and the Beast style wardrobe that is actually the cutest little kitchen.</div>
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Gorgeous view of Chrissie and David's house and one of the villa's.</div>
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