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Mods are asleep post Keith Haring DJ Dog

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Watching 1 horror film everyday in October 24/31

The Wolf House (2018), dir. Joaquin Cocina & Cristobal Leon

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funeral parade of roses, toshio matsumoto (1969)

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Posters I’ve made for a local movie screening program i cohost!

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this movie is about to be good as fuck

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Evening slippers. 1830–45. Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/156180

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Special Agent Gumby falls into the frustrated hands of the enemy.

(another Far Side panel recreation in Blender!)

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Star Gossage (Māori/New Zealander, 1973) - That Stairway of Stars Where Your Ancestors Are (2013)

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Rosemary Vanns was born in Nottinghamshire in 1960 and originally trained and qualified as a registered nurse in Sheffield. A year into further midwifery training in Harlow, Essex in 1983 she gave up her studies to undertake an Arts Foundation Course and then went on to gain a B.A (Hons) degree in Textile and Fashion Design at Winchester School of Art (1984-1987). In both 1988 and 1989 she was awarded places at the Royal College of Art in London to study for an M.A. in Fine Art Printmaking but the birth of her daughter and then her son in those years meant she was unable to attend.

She spent the next 20 years initially as a successful freelance textile designer for the international bedding and furnishings market creating designs for, amongst others, Sanderson, John Lewis, Jeff Banks and Vymura and numerous print and weave companies across the world. For the latter 6 years she returned to work as a surgical staff nurse in Sheffield and then as a district nurse and at her local hospice. Her art making continued spasmodically during this period including a couple of minor awards but it was not until 2009 that she was able to commit herself to life as a full time artist.

Initially printmaking was instinctively her focus (she won the Printmakers' Printmaker Award at Printfest in Cumbria in 2013 and was awarded the Galleries magazine award at the R.E. National Open Print Exhibition in 2018) but painting and mixed media is an equally important part of her work. Mark making and colour continue to predominate in both disciplines and her love of still life and landscape is depicted in either semi abstracted or in more illustrative form.

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The Rose, Nr4, by Hilma af Klint, 1907.

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おにいさま…おにいさま…涙が止まりません！

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untitled [2021]

digital camera

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Marvin D. Cone (American, 1891-1965) - Night Adventure (1951)

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Alfredo Baruffi (1873-1948), 'Primo Specchio' (First Mirror) ''Novissima'', #5, 1905 Source

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(TRIBUTE TO) THE SCREAM (2023)

" I FELT A VAST INFINITE SCREAM THROUGH NATURE... "

mixed media on canvas

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VENUS (2022)

acrylic and mixed media on wood panel

The titular piece from my senior high school thesis portfolio IMAGES OF VENUS. This body of work explored my personal relationship with womanhood and sexuality, as represented through art history iconography.

The felt flowers can be lifted up and reattached via velcro.