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Visual Research 

Worsley and Clifton Country Park 

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Visual Research 

Worsley 

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Visual Research 

Clifton Country Park - close up of natural forms 

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Visual Research 

Worsley 

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Visual Research 

Clifton Country Park - close up of natural forms 

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Lake District 

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Visual Research 

Lake District - close up of Natural Forms

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Clifton Country Park

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Peel Park 

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Clifton Country Park

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Lake District 

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Whitworth Park

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Christmas Stall

12/12/18

This was arranged primarily to raise funds for our catalogue for the degree show, and in doing so we were able to raise a good amount in which will be put together with the other money raise, something that we are aiming to do again around Easter time. 

A small group of us arranged this including myself, Libby, Aimee, David, Krista, Mollie and Rebekah, all in which contributed either through donating work or running the stall. 

I was able to make cakes, whilst Libby created Christmas Cards and prints. Rebekah make some of her ‘Uglies’ and nipple badges, Krista made Christmas cards and gift tags, whilst David donated some art books and Angela gave us some of her ceramic pieces. Other work including an array of prints donated by other students. The majority of which did sell, however the work that didn't will be used again for another stall. 

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Engels Beard Sculpture

A tribute to Mary Burns 

This project consisted of a number of students who came together every Thursday and knitted and crocheted fabrics that would go on to create this huge scarf for this sculpture. In taking around 8 weeks, each individual square fabric was stitched together, incorporating other elements such as ceramics to create a scarf that was long enough to fit around Engels.

These photographs identify the day of installation, an installation that could only be displayed for a hour, however the majority of the fine art course was able to see it.

Through these weekly craft sessions there has been many discussions surrounding domesticity, including how craft skills are passed down from Mother to Daughter and how processed create meaning within an art work. 

As the project developed we have started to consider the gendered nature of power which is evidenced here by the lack of formal information about Mary Burns. She was an intelligent but illiterate woman who constantly supported Engels’ research and provided accommodation for him in the Manchester boarding houses she ran.

They met at his Father’s Salford based cotton factory in the early 1840′s. Mary was a manual worker in the factory and her family belonged to Salford’s working class. Historians consider it highly likely that she was the one who guided him around Manchester and Salford to witness the struggles of, ‘plain working men’.

After this scarf was taken down, Angela deconstructed it into blankets to give to charities. 

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Venice Biennale

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Venice biennale

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Sheila Hicks and Judith Scott

Venice Biennale