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[notforthebin]

Morag Caister

London based painter  Portrait Artist of the Year 2022, Winner  @forbes 30 Under 30: Art & Culture '23 Candidate @esmagazine Art Power List '23 "Morag is interested in what links us together, maintaining a figurative and portrait based practice focusing on routine and automatic behaviour within relatable, resting imagery that has a sense of more than one day being described at a time. The work seeks to describe our familiarities and authentic nature of ourselves through candid posture, body language and expressions, as a crowd or an individual. Sometimes this is explored by direct representation in the form of a portrait, and other times the work is more lucid and colours and shapes make up the expressive qualities in her paintings. Morag sometimes uses an unusual technique of crumbling soft pastel or pigment into chalk house paint to get the desired tones in her portraits. Other usual materials are oils, pastels, paper and raw canvas or calico." Morag Caister (born 1994) is a British painter currently living between London, UK and Tirana, Albania, after graduating in Painting (BA) from the University of Brighton in 2019. 

[allthegeopolitics]

The head of the far-right National Rebirth Party has defended the appointment of a branch leader who was convicted of a hate crime last year sending malicious communications to a drag performer. Christopher Mitchell was sentenced to a 12-month community order in April last year after sending malicious communications to drag queen Auntie Titania Trust, who had delivered a drag queen story-telling event at North Walsham Library in Norfolk. Mitchell also revealed the real name of the drag queen, Joseph Ballard, in social media posts, in which he baselessly accused him of “grooming children”. The threats left Ballard fearing for his life, Great Yarmouth Magistrates’ Court was told. Mitchell, a welder from Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, pleaded guilty to two charges of sending malicious communications. 

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[tanadrin]

Currently on a train through East Anglia, and these are my favorite placenames I’ve seen on Google Maps along the way.

Bungay

Rackheath

Caister-on-Sea

Eye

Bury St. Edmunds

Six Mile Bottom

Tring

Feering

Diss

Lyng

[animaltheory]

detail, pastel on paper. Morag Caister.

[wonder-worker]

In early autumn [of 1456] Richard and Cecily travelled back south. By mid- September York was in residence at the bishop of Salisbury’s inn on Fleet Street. Cecily, however, may have stopped in East Anglia. That November John Fastolf mentioned in one of his letters that Cecily had been visiting him at his sumptuous castle at Caister in Norfolk. Here she had ‘soore mevid [him] for the purchas of Castre’. This was presumably on York’s behalf since, as a married woman, she could not own property in her own right. Fastolf had spent over £ 6,000 rebuilding his luxurious and well- fortified ‘gret mansion’, just a mile from the coast. By 1456 he was in his late seventies and childless, so he knew he would soon have to pass this ‘ryche juelle’ to others.

It seems that Fastolf was seriously considering Cecily’s request to purchase Caister since her visit prompted him to try to speed up his plans to complete this splendid memorial of his life and achievements. The finishing touch was to be a college within the castle to pray for his soul and that of his wife Milicent. Cecily must have considered visiting Fastolf at Caister again either the following summer or in 1458 because in a letter dated simply 18 June, Fastolf expressed anxiety that he would be too ill to receive her. It is plausible to assume that there were other, unrecorded, occasions upon which Cecily was transacting similar business with gentlemen on her husband’s behalf, perhaps sometimes with greater success. Like her negotiations with Queen Margaret, the episode indicates York’s respect for his wife and his faith in her abilities."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Cecily Duchess of York"

[illiaburakov]

Chester (placename element)

The English place-name Chester, and the suffixes -chester, -caster and -cester (old -ceaster), are commonly indications that the place is the site of a Roman castrum, meaning a��military camp or fort (cf. Welsh caer), but it can also apply to the site of a pre-historic fort.

source: WIkipedia.

I found the book on the English place-names by Charles Whynne-Hammond. Direct quote about fortified places which ended up as the name of cities/towns with suffix (somewhere altered) -cester.

"The most common elements which refer to defensive sites are those meaning army camp, fort or fortified place. The Romans built many a defensive or military base, most of which were taken over by later peoples. The ‘colonia’ was an army establishment, usually a colony for retired soldiers (hence the present name of Lincoln) and a ‘castra’ was a fortified camp or walled town. The latter was very common indeed and most were re-established under the later Saxons, who called them ‘ceasters’ or ‘caesters’. Their walls were rebuilt, their gates and towers restrengthened, their streets resurfaced. The settlements today which began as Roman ‘castras’ are legion. Normally they can be recognised by their suffixes, which derive from the Saxon version of that word. Thus, we have all those places ending in ‘-chester’, ‘-cester’ ‘-caster’ and ‘-xeter’: Winchester, Worcester, Manchester, Doncaster, Exeter and so on. Some of these have prefixes from older Celtic words (sometimes tribal names or physical features), others have prefixes purely Saxon. Rarely, if ever, are the prefixes from a Roman or Latin root."

More examples: Acaster Malbis, Acaster Selby, Alcester, Alchester, Ancaster, Bicester, Binchester, Brancaster, Caister-on-Sea, Caistor, Caistor St Edmund, Casterton (Cumbria), Casterton (Great, Rutland), Casterton (Little, Rutland), Castor (Cambridgeshire), Chester, Cheshire (Chester-shire), Chester (Little, Derby), Chesterfield, Chesterford (Great), Chesterford (Little), Chester-Ie-Street, Chesterton, Chesterwood, Chichester, Cirencester, Colchester, Dorchester, Dorchester-on-Thames (Oxfordshire), Ebchester, Frocester, Gloucester, Godmanchester, Grantchester, Hincaster, Ilchester, Irchester, Kenchester, Lancaster, Lancashire (Lune-caster-shire), Lanchester, Leicester, Mancetter, Muncaster, Portchester, Ribchester, Rocester, Rochester (Kent), Rochester (Northumberland), Silchester, Tadcaster, Towcester, Uttoxeter, Woodchester, Worcester, Wroxeter.

Since there are a lot of "-shire", and it's popular place name all over GB, I'll make next etymology-of-places post about this suffix.

[loudestcloud]

We have Anna Sewell (Black Beauty author), Naomi Lewis (translator of Hans Christian Andersen books, poet, essayist, literary critic, anthologist, Eleanor Farjeon winner & pigeon lover), Matthew Macfadyen (Actor), Jason Statham (Actor), Jessica Jane Applegate (Paralympian), Thomas Goodwin (chaplain to Oliver Cromwell), Hannah Spearritt (S club 7 member & actor) & *

And shout out to the lesser known ones because I think you're neat:

Captain George William Manby (Author & inventor), designed the Pelican Gun, the first modern form of fire extinguisher, James Beeching, he designed self-righting lifeboats and designed a type of fishing boat that made the number of boats increased from 96 in 1850 to 242 in 1874 because they were so reliable. James Henry Haylett, one of the most famous lifeboatmen of his age & famous for incorrect quote "Caister men never turn back". Ernest Martin Jehan, the first and only man to sink a steel submarine with a sail-rigged Q-ship. Sir James Paget, our hospital & Paget's disease namesake. Charles Burton Barber painter of children & their pets

Rebecca towne nurse, victim of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Her neighbor Sarah Holton's pigs got into her area n a week later she got really mad at her n basically went "I hope you're useless husband dies!"... N then he had convulsions n died the night they talked about the pigs. Her sister *Mary Towne Eastey also a victim, Mercy Lewis claimed that Eastey's spectre had climbed into her bed and laid her hand upon her breasts... A weird one for sure but even weirder because she was released from prison after two months the 2 days later because Mercy claimed that Eastey's spectre was afflicting her AGAIN! Mary Herrick gave testimony about Eastey testifying that she was visited by Eastey's ghost, who told her she had been put to death wrongfully and was innocent of witchcraft, and that she had come to vindicate her cause. Eastey's family was compensated with £20 (£3188.60) from the government. Mary Eastey is also referenced in The Conjuring 2013, Charmed ep 2, Three Sovereigns for Sarah & her and her sister are referenced in The Crucible. The Primate Fiasco also wrote a song about her.

Also while I'm here, we have a sea shanty called Yarmouth Town! & Also Lydia Eva, a steam drifter from the herring fishing fleet

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.13 (before 1970)

1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre. 1093 – Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are killed. 1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne. 1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London. 1715 – Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal. 1833 – Great Meteor Storm of 1833. 1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism. 1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle. 1864 – American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ends in a Union rout as Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge pursue them to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. 1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London. 1901 – The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster. 1914 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri. 1916 – World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription. 1917 – World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in Italy known as the "First Battle of the Piave"). The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, despite help from the German Alpenkorps and numerical superiority, will fail their offensive against the Italian Army now led by its new chief of staff Armando Diaz. 1918 – World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. 1922 – The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King. 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. 1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow. 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. 1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign. 1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas. 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators. 1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott. 1965 – Fire and sinking of SS Yarmouth Castle, 87 dead. 1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu. 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea near Matsuyama Airport in Japan, killing 50 people. 1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.

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A fast-paced thriller set against the harshness of post-war South London and the atmospheric backdrop of Caister Holiday Park on the Norfolk coast. The story delves into the collision of ordinary lives with extraordinary danger, weaving suspense, character depth, and a relentless pace into a compelling narrative that keeps the reader turning the page until the very last chapter https://tradshack.com/product/always-eat-when-you-are-hungry/

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The Importance of SEO Services in Caister

Caister is home to numerous businesses across various industries. In this competitive local market, it is imperative for businesses to optimize their online presence to stay ahead of the curve. This is where SEO services play a crucial role – Seo Services Caister. By implementing effective SEO strategies and techniques, businesses in Caister can enhance their website’s visibility on search engine result pages (SERPs), thereby attracting more potential customers and increasing their online sales

[g4ljw-amateur-radio]

Rallies and Events News – 8 September 2024

Caister Lifeboat Radio Rally is taking place today, the 8 September, at Caister Lifeboat station, Caister on Sea, NR30 5DJ. The doors are open from 9am to 8pm and there is no admission fee. Sellers can gain access from 8am. For more information email Zane, M1BFI via m1bfi@outlook.com or phone 07711 214 790. The Broadcast […] http://dlvr.it/TCvmr5

[4me4you]

4me4you recently had the pleasure of visiting Rhodes Contemporary Gallery to view the group exhibition "Embraced."

"Embraced: A Lived Experience" is a compelling group exhibition featuring thirteen ultra-contemporary painters specialising in painted portraiture with a profound focus on the human body. 

Artists: MEGAN MENZIES, KITTY RICE, JAVIERA GART,  MORAG CAISTER,, ADELISA SELIMBAŠIĆ, PETER DOYLE, CAMILLE COTTIER, CAROLINE WALLS, JASPER HAGENAAR, DELIA HAMER, DIANA RUBAN, PACE TAYLOR.

The exhibition offers a deep dive into the complexities of the human form, providing a nuanced exploration of intimacy through the capture of fleeting moments that unveil the true essence of the subjects' lives.

"Embraced" intricately examines the human body, portraying it as a living canvas that tells personal stories, conveys emotions, and reflects relationships. 

The exhibition aims to rethink identity in portraiture by centering on the human body as a medium for individual narratives, delving into the intricate web of emotions, relationships, and personal histories, and using the human form to express universal human experiences.

The collection of works showcases how contemporary portraiture can convey emotional depth and resonance through the depiction of the human body. 

Each piece emphasises the body as a means of storytelling and self-expression, highlighting the significance of subtle gestures, poses, and expressions in communicating intimacy. 

The exhibition featured pieces that capture the vulnerability and authenticity of the human form, encouraging viewers to connect with the subjects on a deeper, more visceral level.

The artists involved in "Embraced" utilise their talents to portray not just the physical appearance but also the inner lives of their subjects. 

This method allows the audience to look beyond the surface and engage with the deeper narratives and emotional undertones within each portrait. 

The raw vulnerability displayed in these artworks resonates with viewers, prompting them to reflect on their own bodily experiences and connect with the subjects on a philosophical level.

"Embraced" goes beyond a simple visual display; it invites us to think about the authenticity of our own experiences. 

By presenting unfiltered representations of the human form, the exhibition encourages viewers to consider their own relationships with their bodies and the stories they tell.

[kimranmalhi]

Harvard's Refrencing

About Pattern (2024) About us About Pattern | About Us [19/04/24] 

Beut (2024) Harlequin Above and Below Wallpaper Harlequin Above and Below Wallpaper | beut.co.uk [ Accessed 20/04/24] 

Beut (2024) Harlequin Multitude Wallpaper Harlequin Multitude Wallpaper | beut.co.uk [ Accessed 20/04/24] 

Bored Panda (2024) Photographer Travels Through Time By Inserting Herself Into Her Childhood Photos Photographer Travels Through Time By Inserting Herself Into Her Childhood Photos | Bored Panda [ Accessed 01/04/24] 

Chino Otsuka  Imagine Finding Me 1975-2005 chino otsuka [ Accessed 01/04/24] 

Dani Ives (2024) Dani Ives Fibre Artist Dani Ives : Fiber Artist  

Encyclopedia.design (2024) Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) - Symbolism & Metaphor Frida Kahlo - Symbolism and Metaphor critical for communication (encyclopedia.design) [ Accessed 06/04/24] 

Frida Kahlo (2024) My Grandparents, My Parents and Me, 1936 by Frida Kahlo My Grandparents, My Parents, and Me, 1936 by Frida Kahlo [ Accessed 06/04/24] 

Frida Kahlo (2024) Portrait of Frida’s Family, 1950 by Frida Kahlo Portrait of Frida's Family, 1950 - by Frida Kahlo [ Accessed by 06/04/24] 

Frida Kahlo (2024) The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego and Señor Xólotl The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego and Señor Xólotl (fridakahlo.org) [ Accessed by 06/04/24] 

Jane Clayton & Company (2024) Libreria Wallpaper by Cole & Son Libreria Wallpaper by Cole & Son in Rich Multi | Jane Clayton [ Accessed 21/04/24] 

Jane Clayton & Company (2024) Khulu Vases Wallpaper by Cole & Son Khulu Vases Wallpaper by Cole & Son in 12056 | Jane Clayton [ Accessed 21/04/24]  

Liang. C, Kolovos. M, (2024) Introduction to Developmental Psychology (Psychology) Birmingham City University [ Accessed pages 24-30 09/04/24] 

My Modern Met (2024) Woman Photoshops Present-day Self into Childhood Photos Woman Photoshops Present-Day Self into Childhood Photos (mymodernmet.com) [ Accessed 01/04/24] 

Mansading Textile (2024) My Astute Mother MY ASTUTE MOTHER | mansading (masading.com) [ Accessed 12/04/24] 

Mansading Textile (2024) Making of My Astute Mother Making of My Astute Mother | mansading (masading.com) [ Accessed 12/04/24] 

Mansading Textile (2024) Mother’s Love Mother's love | mansading (masading.com) [ Accessed 12/04/24] 

National Portrait Gallery (Tuesday 11th April 2023) New Commision by Sir Steeve McQueen brings his work into National Portrait Gallery’s Collection, as portrait of Sir Nicholas Serota is unveiled press-release_sir-nicholas-serota-by-sir-steve-mcqueen.pdf (npg.org.uk) [ Accessed 18/04/24] 

Pinterest (2024) Divine mother Pinterest [ Accessed 06/04/24] 

Pure (2023) Morag Caister PAOTY 2022 winner commissioned to paint Sir Lenny Henry to be exhibited at National Portrait Gallery — Pure Arts Group [ Accessed 18/04/24] 

Quinn, Bradley. (2009) Textile Designers at the cutting edge, London, Laurence King 

Style, Bowie. (2010) Print & Pattern, London, Laurence King 

SimplyPsychology (2024) John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory John Bowlby's Attachment Theory (simplypsychology.org) [ Accessed 08/04/24] 

Verywellmind (2024) What Is Attachment Theory? Attachment Theory: Bowlby and Ainsworth's Theory Explained (verywellmind.com) [ Accessed 08/04/24] 

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Artist Statement

For this project on self portrait I began by considering different aspects of myself, I had many idea such as exploring the items I own which represent me to painting myself at different ages. I eventually settled on the idea of my daily routine, this stemmed from making my book with Eoin and filling the pages with snap shots of a day in my life, from this project I understood I spent a lot of my time in bed and so I decided to focus more specifically on me and my bed.

I explored different aspects of me and my bed in a variety of media, including charcoal, ink, gouache and acrylic paint. I found myself trying to tell a story of me getting into bed, so I created a series of three paintings which depict the moments before and after I get into bed.

Artists I researched:

Lucian Freud, Tracey Emin, Morag Caister, Jenny Savile, Vincent Van Gogh.

Where I think I did well:

I think I did well in creating a strong narrative and focusing the project onto a specific area which represents me.

I pushed my boundaries in terms of painting technique, such as palette knife painting and painting in a difficult colour palette .

I believe I have improved my life drawing skill from previous times where I have done it, it now feel more natural to me and I find it easier to understand more complex forms.

Where I Struggled:

Looking back I feel I probably could have expanded the ways I progressed my project, I would have liked to do move creative mind mapping for this project and used different surfaces to paint on. This is something I aim to improve upon in the future.