#clare carswell

[onlygenxhere]

10 characters, 10 fandoms!

rules: list your ten favorite characters from ten separate fandoms, then tag ten people!

Tagged by @innytoes and @1mnobodywhoareyou

I decided to go with book characters – In no particular order.

1.  Ridoc - The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros

2.  Grandma Mazur – Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich

3. Edward – Anita Blake novels by Laural K. Hamilton

4. Carswell Thorne – The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

5. Mara Jade – Star Wars books (Heir to the Empire 1st appearance) Several authors

6. Percy Jackson – Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

7. Will Herondale – The Shadowhunters Series by Casandra Clare

8. Quinn – The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlene Harris

9, Riley Thorn – The Riley Thorn series by Lucy Score

10. Pip Fitz-Amobi – A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series by Holly Jackson

Tagging @alyssoid, @claire8216, @jmrothwell, @sovvannight, and @thephantomchronicles

[celtfather]

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2024 #653

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THIS WEEK IN CELTIC MUSIC

0:07 - Tradify "The Roaring Barmaid, Star of Munster Jig, Star of Munster & Fred Finn’s" from Take Flight

4:29 - WELCOME

6:43 - Sorcha "Stomp the Floor / Slide from Grace / The Mouse in the Kitchen" from Stomp the Floor

10:42 - Jigjam "Tullamore to Boston" from Phoenix

14:21 - The Fire "Captain Carswell" from Radiance

18:41 - Hayley Griffiths "Star of the County Down" from Far from Here

21:19 - Keltricity "The Butterfly  -  Behind the Bush in the Garden  -  Swallowtail Jig" from Live at Terra Firma Radio

25:22 - FEEDBACK

30:11 - Marc Gunn "Myra’s Lament for Lamlash Bay" from Come Adventure With Me

Listen to Mad Jenny on Lamlash Bay #85

33:54 - Tarren "Hardwood" from Revel

36:48 - Celtic Wood and Wires "I'll Tell Me Ma" from Close the Back Door

40:53 - Altan "The Yellow Tinker (Slow Reel)" from Donegal

43:49 - Michael Darcy & The Atlantic Tramps "The Rambler from Clare" from Down to the Roots

47:12 - Louise Bichan "Qouyburray" from Out of My Own Light

50:27 - Toby Bresnahan "Farewell To Auld Ireland" from All In Good time

55:13 - CELTIC INVASION VACATIONS

57:23 - The Walker Roaders "Old Tar Road to Sligo" from The Walker Roaders

1:01:15 - Lúnasa "The Bull's March" from Live in Kyoto

1:06:25 - Stout Pounders "Raggle Taggle Gypsy (Live)" from Liver Let Live

1:09:16 - Brother Sea "All as One" from Brother Sea Ep

1:13:42 - Clare Cunningham "Home Again" from Home Again

1:17:57 - THANKS

1:19:44 - River Driver "John O'Reilly" from Flanagan's Shenanigans! Live at The Celt

1:24:11 - Philippe Barnes and Tom Phelan "New Kings Road/Órlaith's/New Found Out" from The Clearwater Sessions

1:30:22 - Jimmy & Scots Folk Band "COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS" from The Viking Irishman

1:33:16 - Clay Babies "OutOnTheOcean / FlowersOfEdinburgh / Mason'sApron" from Speechless Vol. 1: Sloppy Session in the Sticks

1:37:13 - CaliCeltic "Frosty Pint" from Whiskey Mustache

1:40:38 - Ironwood "She Likes the Guinness" from Gretna Green

1:44:31 - CLOSING

1:46:31 - Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones "Spanish Lady" from Let the Free Birds Fly

1:50:09 - CREDITS

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Ben Doran messaged on Facebook: “When I received the "music only version" of the "The Gaelic Blessing" podcast, I was immediately reminded of one of the most moving arrangements of The Irish Blessing that I have heard  -  - by Bill O'Connor and Larry Theiss on their – "Traditional And Original" recording.

I am getting ready to have a day off tomorrow and will  get to chores and baking for the "Wild Hog in the Woods" usual Friday night concert that we host at a neighborhood center here in Madison. While I am mixing and baking, I'll surely/certainly listen to that "Gaelic Blessing" program in its entirety. Thanks!”

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I'm loving the Celtic Women special. There's so many fabulous Irish women singers and musicians. Noirin Ni Rian, the sean - ós singer and chanter, Sandra Joyce singer and bodhran player are two amazing teachers I met at the Irish World Music Summer School  - Blas, many years ago.  Niamh Parsons & Delores Keane are firm favourites & I love discovering new  female artists.

I'll probably go to a session on St Patrick's day and there's a band playing at one of the Irish pubs in the evening I want to see. Sliánte"

  Check out this episode!

[festalfavours]

FESTAL FAVOURS is a programme of performance art, sound installation, experimental printmaking and new writing curated by CLARE CARSWELL for the new CHARLBURY FESTIVAL.  

SATURDAY 10th - SUNDAY18th JUNE 2017.

Presenting two week-ends of residencies, installation and performance art by thirteen artists, it will introduce performance art to the local audience and will showcase new works made especially for Charlbury by major names as well as by younger artists. 

Writer and academic TRACEY WARR will write the introduction to our catalogue and leads a team of guest writers and artists who will make written responses to the performance works of all types, from review to poetry and fiction. www.traceywarrwriting.com

Artist ISABEL WILKINSON is artist-in-residence at Southill Solar Farm Charlbury and will run a cyanotype making workshop on Sunday 11th June. www.isabelwilkinson.net

Artist technologist NEIL C SMITH is collaborating with young artist WILL H HARVEY to make a site specific sound installation for the Larcum Kendal Room in The Corner House. www.neilcsmith.net  cargocollective.com/Will_Harvey

CLARE CARSWELL MA(RCA), is an artist and Director of COU COU Curation (formerly AYYO Contemporary Art) www.cou-cou.org  www.clarecarswellperformance.com

[irisartinsights]

Art Insights, Reviews, Interviews & Reflections on contemporary art practice by artist curator Clare Carswell with guest contributors.

[liveartandperformancegroup-blog]

SQUASH & STRETCH LAUNCH AND PERFORMANCE EVENING 21st of November 2018

Limited edition copies of the book will be on sale. Programme for the evening. 5.30 Bar opens 6.00 Welcome and introduction to publication 6.10 Video documentation of Squash and Stretch by Electra Lyhne-Gold. 6.20 Performances Sam Hall - BloBByBirth Clare Carswell - SHOW HOLES 3 Luke Jordan - Untitled 2018 Austin Sherlaw-Johnson - 'This piece lasts as long as it takes me to cross the stage sixteen times' Al/ice/ex Donaghy - 'Self-Testing/Public Movement' Robert Ridley-Shackleton. - short sharp shard of hard card 7.00 Break 7.15 Performances Jezella Piggot and Naomi Morris - Loom Robert Luzar - Demonstration 5 : how to wrap and show one's arm Jessie Palmer - 'Hounding' Ileana Gherghina - Mummy-A: Remembering the Other Marcin Gawin 'Didymus' Veronica Cordova and Peta Lloyd - Vogue meets Morris 8.00 End All welcome 'Pay as you want' entrance

[mellowfestbanana]

(via Trump’s golf banter teed off at Doonbeg days before Friday’s game)US president will take to Co Clare links ahead of his chief of staff and Irish ambassador|Simon Carswellin Doonbeg||The golfing banter in Donald Trump’s running “four balls” series at Doonbegcontinued as soon as the US president stepped off his Marine One helicopter on Wednesday.“Am I stuck with Joe?” Mr Trump said as arrived at the west Clare golf course, joshing with Joe Russell, the managing director of his family’s Doonbeg hotel and golf resort, about his playing partner for Friday’s round.

[coucoucurates]

SWIM is a two day performance art event in East Oxford held over the week-end of Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th May 2019. 

Curated with artist and curator Sam Hall, SWIM is hosting eight artists who are invited for two days of informal workshop and presentation of works. The event is open to the public and is part of a community event The Garden of Mystery and Suspense for Oxfordshire Artweeks organised by artist Janey Carline of Everyone’s An Artist.

The SWIM participant artists are :  Lottie Candy, Clare Carswell, Phoebe Curry, Kate Daggett, Helen Edwards, Claire Frampton, Sam Hall, James Seymour

Artists respond to the River Thames and make performance work on the river bank in The Kidneys nature reserve and in the river itself. 

[deceptiondetectionradio]

Wait Til You Hear This with Steve Eastman - A Review of the History Channels Jesus His Life

[rhysthehighlord]

Books I read

Abigail Gibbs:

Dinner with a Vampire (The Dark Heroine Series)

Alexandra Adornetto:

Halo (Halo Series)

Hades

Heaven

Ally Condie:

Matched (Matched Series)

Alwyn Hamilton:

Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands Series)

Amanda Foody:

Ace of Shades (The Shadow Game Series)

Amy Harmon:

Making Faces

Angie Thomas:

The Hate U Give

Anna Jarzab:

Tandem (Many-Worlds Trilogy)

Carolyn Macker and Jay Asher:

The Future of Us

Cassandra Clare:

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments)

City of Ashes

City of Glass

City of Fallen Angels

City of Lost Souls

City of Heavenly Fire

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices)

Clockwork Prince

Clockwork Princess

After the Bridge

Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices)

Lord of Shadows

Queen of Air and Darkness

The Shadowhunter’s Codex

Catherine Egan:

Julia Vanishes (Witch’s Child Series)

Julia Defiant

Cecily von Ziegesar:

Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl)

It Had to Be You

You Know You Love Me

All I Want is Everything

Because I’m Worth It

I Like It Like That

You’re the One That I Want

Nobody Does It Better

Nothing Can Keep Us Together

Only in Your Dreams

Would I Lie to You

Don’t You Forget About Me

I Will Always Love You

The Carlyles

You Just Can’t Get Enough

Take a Chance On Me

Love the One You’re With

The It Girl (It Girl Series)

Notorious

Reckless

Unforgettable

Lucky

Tempted

Infamous

Adored

Devious

Classic

Cynthia Hand:

The Afterlife of Holly Chase

David Levithan and Rachel Cohn:

Dash and Lily’s Books of Dares

Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat, Pray, Love

Holly Black:

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air Series)

The Wicked King

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

J. K. Rowling:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter Series)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Jennifer L. Armentrout:

Obsidian (Lux Series)

Shadows

Oblivion

Onyx

Oblivion II

Opal

Origin

Opposition

Jenny Han:

To All the Boys I‘ve Loved Before (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Series)

P.S. I Still Love You

Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer:

Between the Lines (Between the Lines Series)

Off the Page

John Green:

The Fault in Our Stars

Kasie West:

Listen to Your Heart

Katherine McGee

The Thousandth Floor (The Thousandth Floor Trilogy)

Kerri Maniscalco:

Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper Series)

Kerstin Gier:

Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy)

Sapphire Blue

Emerald Green

Dream a Little Dream (The Silver Triology)

Silber: Das zweite Buch der Träume (only available in German apparently)

Silber: Das dritte Buch der Träume

Kiera Cass:

The Selection (The Selection Series)

The Elite

The One

Happily Ever After

The Heir

The Crown

Krista & Becca Ritchie:

Addicted to You (Addicted Series)

Ricochet

Addicted for Now

Thrive

Addicted After All

Kiss the Sky (Calloway Sisters)

Hothouse Flower

Fuel the Fire

Long Way Down

Some Kind of Perfect

Laura Thalassa:

Rhapsodic (The Bargainer Series)

A Strange Hymn

Lauren Kate:

Fallen (Fallen Series)

Torment

Passion

Fallen in Love

Rapture

Unforgiven

Teardrop (Teardrop Series)

Leigh Bardugo:

Shadow and Bone (Grisha Series)

The Demon in the Wood

The Witch of Duva

The Tailor

Siege and Storm

The Too-Clever Fox

Little Knife

Ruin and Rising

Six of Crows (Six of Crows Duology)

Crooked Kingdom

Lisa J. Smith:

The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries Series)

The Struggle

The Fury

Dark Reunion

Nightfall

Shadow Souls

Midnight

Phantom

Moonsong

Destiny Rising

Unseen

Unspoken

Unmasked

Madeline Miller:

Circe

Maggie Stiefvater:

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle)

The Dream Thieves

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls Series)

Marie Lu:

Warcross (Warcross Series)

Wildcard

Batman: Nightwalker

Marissa Meyer:

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles)

Glitches

The Little Android

The Queen’s Army

Scarlet

Cress

Carswell’s Guide to Being Lucky

Fairest

Winter

Stars Above

Renegades (Renegades Series)

Archenemies

Heartless

Meagan Spooner:

Hunted

Meg Cabot:

Airhead (Airhead Series)

Being Nikki

Runaway

The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries Series)

Princess in the Spotlight

Princess in Love

Princess in Waiting

Princess Lessons

Project Princess

Princess in Pink

Princess in Training

The Princess Present

Party Princess

Valentine Princess

Princess on the Brink

Princess Mia

Forever Princess

Perfect Princess

Royal Wedding

How to be Popular

Ransom My Heart

Michelle Rowen:

Dark Kiss (Nightwatchers Series)

Morgan Matson:

The Unexpected Everything

Natasha Ngan:

Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire Series)

R. F. Kuang:

The Poppy War (The Poppy War Series)

Rachel Ward:

Numbers (Numbers Series)

Rainbow Rowell:

Eleanor & Park

Renee Ahdieh:

The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn Series)

The Moth and the Flame

The Crown and the Arrow

The Mirror and the Maze

The Rose and the Dagger

Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist Series)

Smoke in the Sun

S. Jae-Jones:

Wintersong (Wintersong Series)

Sabaa Tahir:

An Ember in the Ashes (Ember Quartet)

A Torch Against the Night

A Reaper at the Gates

Sarah J. Maas:

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series)

A Court of Mist and Fury

A Court of Wings and Ruin

A Court of Frost and Starlight

Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass Series)

The Assassin’s Blade

Crown of Midnight

Heir of Fire

Queen of Shadows

Empire of Storms

Tower of Dawn

Kingdom of Ash

Catwoman: Soulstealer

Simone Elkeles:

Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry Series)

Wild Cards (Wild Cards Series)

Stephanie Perkins:

Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss Series)

Lola and the Boy Next Door

Susan Ee:

Angelfall (Peryn and the End of Days Series)

Tahereh Mafi:

Shatter Me (Shatter Me Series)

Destroy Me

Unravel Me

Fracture Me

Ignite Me

Restore Me

Taylor Jenkins Reid:

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Terry Maggert:

Heartborn

Theo Lawrence:

Mystic City (Mystic City Series)

Victoria Aveyard:

Red Queen (Red Queen Series)

Queen Song

Steel Scars

Glass Sword

King’s Cage

V. E. Schwab/Victoria Schwab:

A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic Trilogy)

A Gathering of Shadows

A Conjuring of Light

German only books:

Ava Reed:

Spiegelsplitter (Spiegel-Saga)

Gesa Schwartz:

Nacht ohne Sterne

Herz aus Nacht und Scherben

Jennifer Wolf:

Morgentau (Geschichten der Jahreszeiten)

Abendsonne

Nachtblüte

Tagwind

Göttertochter

Laura Kneidl:

Light & Darkness

Lynn Raven

Der Kuss des Dämons (Dawn und Julien)

Das Herz des Dämons

Das Blut des Dämons

Blutbraut

Der Kuss des Kjer

Der Spiegel von Feuer und Eis

Windfire

Marah Woolf:

Liebe mich nicht (GötterFunke)

Sabrina Quinaj:

Teufelsherz (Teufel)

Teufelstod

[themundaneteenagelife]

Hi everyone! I was recently tagged for the really fun Relationshipper Book Tag by Alex Reads and Blogs! Thanks a ton for the tag! For the rest of you readers, please do head over to her amazing blog.

Now its time to cry over all my failed ships!

THE RULES

Answer the eleven questions provided by the blogger who tagged you

Come up with eleven new questions of your own!

Tag 5 new bloggers!

Mention the blogger who tagged you and have fun!!

QUESTIONS

Who was your first book crush?

First and always – Will Herondale! ALWAYS! ❤

The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

Who was your most recent book crush?

I’m currently reading Cress (#3 The Lunar Chronicles) and I adore Carswell Thorne!

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

  What popular ship do you sink?

Hmmmmmmmm I don’t know……? Maybe Tris and Tobias? They were okay really but they made SO MANY MISTAKES. By the end, it really didn’t even seem to make sense for them to stay together. Tobias has the worst case of character evolution I have ever seen. I started out really liking his character and ended up so annoyed with him by the last book. And don’t even get me started on Tris.

Divergent by Veronica Roth

  Which unpopular ship do you actually love?

Leo and Calypso! I’m actually not sure if they’re unpopular, but I do recall a few reviews complaining about them but I simply love the two. So adorable!

The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan

Do you have a favorite friends to lovers ship?

Percabeth of course! I was rooting for Percy and Annabeth from the very start of the series!

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

What ship reminds you of your relationship? Or the relationship you would like to have?

I’d love to have a relationship like Ron and Hermione!

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

What ship was just unnecessary?

There are so many! In fact I feel like 90% of the ships in the Heroes of Olympus series were unnecessary. Piper and Jason, Hazel and Frank. They’re good characters individually too!

Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan

Imagine your favorite ship 10 years in the future (from when their book ends)… where are they now?

I don’t actually want to anymore. My favorite ship is Magnus Bane and Ale Lightwood. Malec had the perfect ending and now the Dark Artifices series is hell bent on ruining their lives.

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

Which book do you want to see adapted to TV/Movie? Who would you cast to bring your ship to life?

Even though I highly doubt the adaptation would live up to my expectation (since they almost NEVER do), I’d love to see a TV adaptation of The Red Queen series. I don’t have a fancast for Mare but here are my choices for Maven and Cal.

Matthew Daddario as Maven Calore

Also, is it only me or does he look a lot like Noah Centineo (<3)?

Bradley James as Tiberias Calore the Seventh

Even though this seems extremely unlikely, I’d love to see this! Bradley James played King Arthur on Merlin and I had such a huge crush on him! He would be such a great fit for Cal.

What is a relationship that you wish happened?

None. I actually don’t like romances being shoved into books unnecessarily so I’m happy with every presence or absence of romance in the books I read.

What character(s) have broken your heart?

DON’T GET ME STARTED. NO JUST NO NO NO. I WILL CRY.

*SPOILER ALERT – If you haven’t read these books, I might give the ending away*

To name just a few – Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief, Jason Grace from The Heroes of Olympus, Matthias Helvar from Six of Crows, Max Lightwood from the Mortal Instruments, Fred Weasley from Harry Potter.

This was so much fun! If you think you might enjoy this one, consider yourself tagged! Thanks a ton for reading!

The Relationshipping Book Tag Hi everyone! I was recently tagged for the really fun Relationshipper Book Tag by Alex Reads and Blogs!

[beckysbook5]

  Ok so for this challenge you focus on one letter a week selecting books that you have read and books on your TBR that start with that letter. For this week it’s the letter c.

Books I’ve read

  Cinder By Marissa Meyer

I love this series! The perfect blend of Sci-Fi and fantasy. My favourite book in the series is Cress, mainly because I kind of love Carswell Thorne. Definitely a series to add to your TBR if you haven’t read it yet.

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

This book is probably my favourite read of the year! It was such a fresh read and with two female lead characters!! I seriously need to get my hands on the next book asap.

The City of Brass by S A Chakraborty

This was a great read! Nahri is a great main character and I love all the mythology behind this story. A great read for fans of Alwyn Hamilton.

City of bones by Cassandra Clare

This is a fantastic Fantasy series. I love that its set in modern times and this definitely helps when it comes to relating to the characters. There are multiple series written in the Shadowhunter universe I would recommend them all.

The cruel prince by Holly Black

This is the first novel by Holly Black that I have read and I have to say it wasn’t my favourite read of the year. The book definitely picked up in the last few chapters, enough to make me want to read the sequel, but I don’t feel in any rush to do so.

  Books on my TBR

  Columbine by David Cullen/ Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J Maas/ The Cerulean by Amy Ewing/ City of Ghosts by V E Schwab / Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto/ Circe by Madeline Milller

C – the ABC book challenge Ok so for this challenge you focus on one letter a week selecting books that you have read and books on your TBR that start with that letter.

[irisartinsights]

THE ART OF REFLECTION

Opening and closing twice in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic lockdown, The Ashmolean Museum Oxford’s ‘Young Rembrandt’ exhibition displayed early works charting the first decade of the working life of the artist. It showed his tentative beginnings and rapid development of skill, leading to his emergence as a prolific master of painting and print-making. The exhibition was the starting point for the COU COU ‘JONG/young’ exhibition, as curator Clare Carswell invited mid-career artists to reflect on themes in the exhibition, as well as on works from the early stages of their own careers.

Many of Rembrandt’s early works are self portraits, a form which offers the most intimate perspective a viewer can get of an artist. By linking creativity to self-hood, an artist is able to incorporate clues to their own identity as well as leaving tangible evidence of their thought processes and their technical development. Unsurprisingly, it is these aspects of the ‘Young Rembrandt’ exhibition that portrait painter Robin Danely, identifies with. She presents two self-portraits in the ‘JONG/young’ exhibition, spanning the years between 1996 and the present. In exhibiting the self-portrait of her younger self alongside the recent ‘Dutch Self Portrait’ 2021, Danely is not only showing her increased skill as a painter, but offers an insight into her origins. She has included a bold visual reference to her personal history as in the picture she is wearing a collar crocheted by her grandmother, connecting her to her family, Dutch immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century. It also references the decorative collars of Rembrandt’s time.

'Dutch Self Portrait' 2021 Robin Danely

Becky Paton, a mosaic artist, was also inspired by the ‘Young Rembrandt’ exhibition to examine the connection between her practice and self-portraiture and to determine the sources of inspiration for her vivid glass and ceramic works. She acknowledges the significance of her desire to capture particular moments, or memories in her works, psychologically marking the importance of an occasion, the works functioning as a cornerstone for that stage of her career. For the ‘JONG/young’ exhibition Becky has made a large self-portrait, ‘The 7th Warrior’ 2021 echoing the jewel like qualities of the paintings of the master. It is one of a trio of self-portraits exhibited that represent her creative journey, as well as encapsulating within them personal memories and signs of her interest in the natural world.

'The 7th Warrior, a self portrait' 2021 Becky Paton

The ‘Young Rembrandt’ exhibition revealed the importance of experimentation in shaping Rembrandt’s later practice, his earlier works showing his struggles with drawing and etching as well as his improvement and acquisition of skill in depicting the effect of light. Vicky Hirsch concluded that for her, the process of making is as important as the outcome, fuelling discovery and development. Taking time to pause and reflect helps artists to follow their intuition, essential for finding new sources of inspiration, and progressing artistic practice beyond mere reproduction. Vicky’s works for the ‘JONG/young’ exhibition are copper plate etchings, paying homage to the young Rembrandt’s dedication to the bettering of his own etching technique. Vicky documents the link between experimentation and artistic maturing, taking as a starting point a photograph of herself with the ceramic pots, also included in the exhibition, which she made as a younger artist. She has produced a series of etchings ‘My Younger Self I - V’ 2021 that act as a linear narrative of her own progress.

'My Younger Self V' 2021 Vicky Hirsch

Rembrandt’s early works show him exploring new and innovative subjects, bringing a reality and earthiness to his depictions of real women with sagging flesh rather than idealised forms. His honesty and determination to represent life in its rawest forms is also seen in works of peasants urinating and defecating, demonstrating that he chose not to shy away from the ordinariness of everyday life. Juliet Eccles powerful photographic and video works are similarly honest images of the experience of living with disability in all its ‘grubbiness’. She is interested in mortality and in how extended periods of illness have marked her. Her response to the works in the ‘Young Rembrandt’ exhibition echoes Rembrandt’s desire to show the fragility of life and human vulnerability. Her photographic works ‘Feed Me Now’, ‘Feeding Myself’, ’Nil By Mouth’ 2021, reference the act of feeding, stripping away the elegance of manners to show the primal struggle of achieving it for oneself and the discomfort of depending on others to help you. Her works, as Rembrandt’s do, communicate with us as living breathing human beings sustained by connection and our shared frailty.

'Feeding Myself' 2021 Juliet Eccles

It is evident from the responses that the four exhibiting artists in the ‘JONG/young’ exhibition have made, that looking back and learning from the work of those who went before is as vital as self-reflection for an artist’s development. Both processes lead to greater understanding of creative inspiration and the source of the subjects which endure for them. Evident are signs of experimentation, improved technical skill, and the best representation of the ideas that pervade the work. The willingness to learn and to meet the challenges within artistic practice echoes the fearlessness of the young Rembrandt. Such courage and thoughtfulness can be usefully applied to life more broadly. We can perhaps all take inspiration from the themes of the ‘Young Rembrandt’ exhibition to learn the ‘art’ of reflection.

Clare Carswell and Hope Collinson

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ANNOUNCING ARTISTS' BIOS AND WEBSITES!

ELASTIC PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL! "'cause I'm pretty animated, y'know?" By Storyboard P.

Date: 6 MAY 2016

Aaron Williamson Over the last 25 years Aaron Williamson has created more than 300 exhibitions, performances, interventions, videos, installations and publications for galleries, museums and festivals including Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, The Venice Biennale, and Nippon Performance Art festival in Japan. He has lectured in numerous institutions in the UK and internationally, won a range of awards and published widely. www.aaronwilliamson.org

Brian Catling is a sculptor, poet, novelist, filmmaker and performance artist. He is Professor of Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. He has been exhibition work internationally since the 1970’s. In 2001 he co-founded the international performance collective WitW.

Christopher Ansell In performances Ansell negotiates the intricacies of verbal and bodily language. The gestures of language, the human body and the voice are choreographed in poetic compositions that disrupt the dominance of verbal communication. Influenced by a variety of theatrical practices, ranging from contemporary drag acts to eighteenth century mime, Ansell explores the technologies of verbal and bodily performance. Ansell lives in Oxford and is currently a graduate student at the Ruskin School of Art.

GG Awin is a fine artist born in Poland, and working in performance, video and image making. Drawing on lowbrow and camp aesthetic, his work focuses on establishing artificial environments and hierarchy with the means of a role imposition, absurd and (direct) confrontation.

Clare Carswell MA(RCA) works with performance and drawing to make works for the gallery and public space. She curates the work of others at AYYO Contemporary Art, a gallery and project space near to Oxford. She runs Art Pitch, a residential programme for UK and international artists and writes and lectures on contemporary art. www.clarecarswellperformance.com

Shwanda Corbett

Veronica Cordova de la Rosa is an artist-researcher. Her research is a search for artistic growth, knowledge production and how thought is processed in the studio space. She loves the general art public to discuss the merits of her research over coffee, in the press or online.

Al/ice/ex Donaghy I am interdisciplinary artist working mainly in performance with influences from Butoh dance, experimental writing/music and photography. My work often concerns political or social problems. Much my research and work focuses on restriction and restraint and it’s effect on mood/creation of performance and writing. I use this physical intervention in my work as a method of distraction from the actual act in hand. www.adonaghy.com

Michael Dudeck is an artist and cultural engineer who decodes dominant cultural mythologies and re-codes them into contemporary fictions. www.michaeldudeck.com

Sam Hall Biography: Sam is currently studying and working in Oxford www.instagram.com/sam_hall6

Victoria Karlsson is a sound artist interested in the emotional and subjective aspects of sound and art. Investigating sound as both an inner and outer experience, she explores how we think about, remember, dream about sounds, and how this influences our experiences of sounds in our everyday. She is currently undertaking a PhD Research Degree at University of the Arts, London. Her research investigates sounds in thoughts, asking if we hear sounds in our minds, what they mean to us and where they come from. Her work has been exhibited in the Barbican, the Institute of Contemporary Art and several other group and solo shows. www.victoriakarlsson.co.uk

Peta Lloyd and Jemima Hall Jemima is young, tall and blonde; Peta is not. This is their second collaboration. They are both students at Oxford Brookes University.

www.petalloyd.co.uk

www.instagram.com/jemimahall.art

Robert Luzar is an artist, writer and educator. He is Senioe Lecturer in Fine Art at Bath Spa University and holds a PhD from Central Saint Martins. He investigates notions of ‘event’ through performative drawing practices that are worked critically through video and installation. He exhibits globally in live-art events and art venues such as Torrance Art Museum (USA), Talbot Rice Gallery (UK), DRAWinternational (FR), Katzman Contemporary (CA), Red Head Gallery(CA) and Kunstlerhaus Dortmund (DE). His writing on art and critical theory are published in journals and magazines, such as Mnemoscape, Desearch and the book Nancy and Visual Culture (Edinburgh University Press 2016). www.robertluzar.com

Kate Mahony makes live performances and films that appropriate existing frameworks to see, when placed upon a foreign body, what animates certain social groups, ‘societies’, individuals and herself to ‘perform’. www.katemahony.com

Naomi Mishkin is an artist from New York. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Glass and is currently completing her MFA at the University of Oxford. www.naomimishkin.com

Joseph Morgan Schofield is an emerging live artist working in body and task led performance art. He makes consecrated performative actions. He recently completed his MA Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London.

Nunu Theatre ‘Loneliness has made us express ourselves in another language’ The Nunu Theatre originated in Romania but is currently based in Bristol. Nunu is the only theatre company in the UK to work exclusively with professionals actors who use English as their second language in performance.

Tess Tallula is half way through her fine art degree at Oxford Brookes creating thoughtful and frivolous installations, performances and films.

Robert Ridley-Shackleton The cardboard prince presents entertainment for 2016 and beyond.

Fay Stevens is an academic, curator, artist and writer. Her archaeological work, performance and art practice is a process of excavation; an unravelling of layers of time, memory and substance. It is a phenomenological enquiry and experience, concerned with trace, elements, the senses, inscription and corporeal interplay. www.cargocollective.com/FayStevens

Austin Sherlaw-Johnson is a composer and performance artist who works in a variety of media. Recent work includes: Explicit Sounds (six actions for one performer), Making a Box as Quickly as Possible (video), Anti-Conceptualism, (installation), John Cage and Teeny Duchamp Play Chess in front of a Live Audience (theatre piece for two performers) and You’re Beautiful (three three minute pop songs for two performers). www.austinsherlawjohnson.com

Alexandra Trott is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory at Oxford Brookes University. Her white cube is a lecture hall, and she regularly performs in front of Fine Art students and art historians, presenting her interpretations of Modernist history.

Emma Williams and Hannah Oram

Annie Wright Coming from a Fine Art background, Annie enjoys working across disciplines and playing with socio-political issues. She is interested in exploring the use of spoken word in installation and performance art. www.anniewright.co.uk

Zwann eï Collective Faith «struggles insanely, if you will, for the possibility» as «without possibility it is as though a person cannot draw breath» (Sören Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death) Such is the existential struggle: believing despite inevitable loss and despite the impossibility of any help. Believing is what prevents from perishing. Drawing from the themes of faith and belief, the performance Endiosada (literally entrusted by God) explores freely the points of contact between life devoted to the permanent quest for help and transcendence. http://co21840.wixsite.com/zwannei-collective

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Weekend two : Rhiannon Evans 2 - 4 Sat 17th   Jack Catling 4pm Sat 17th

Veronica Cordova de la Rosa 6pm Sat 17th Clare Carswell 11am Sun 18th

Jo Thomas 3 -5 Sun 18th  Neil C Smith & William H Harvey 12 - 6 Sat & Sun

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Trump’s golf banter teed off at Doonbeg days before Friday’s game

Trump’s golf banter teed off at Doonbeg days before Friday’s game

  Donald Jr. (second right), and Eric Trump (centre), in Doonbeg, with golf resort director of membership Brendan Murphy (in a green tie). Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

  US president will take to Co Clare links ahead of his chief of staff and Irish ambassador|Simon Carswell in Doonbeg||

The golfing banter in Donald Trump’s running “four balls” series at Doonbegcontinued as soon as the US…

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DIG was a week-end of performance art held in an urban garden in Oxfordshire in May 2018. Curated with emerging artist and curator Sam Hall the event hosted eleven artists who were selected from open call for two days of informal workshop and presentation of works. The event was open to the public and was part of a community event The Last Garden of Mystery and Suspense for Oxfordshire Artweeks organised by artist Janey Carline of Everyone’s An Artist.

The DIG participant artists were :  Rebekah Dean, Rhiannon Evans, Claire Frampton, Emma Stevens, Ann Rapstoff, Seher Kiran, Julia Mallaby, Katie Ullyart, Bella Lordwarf, Sam Hall, Clare Carswell

The artists camped in the garden belonging to Janey and Francis Carline and meals were provided so that the artists could enjoy being in the space, respond to it as they wished to and share their work with each other and with visitors. Photographer Stu Allsopp was there for the weekend to document anything that the artists wanted recording. 

The Carline family were about to pack up and move after living there for thirty years and so the artists were invited to respond as though on a dig, seeking signs of occupation and considering aspects of home, relocation and memory.