Monthly Archives: May 2016

Dad comes home

11am “Hello, is that Mr Peter Mansell”“It’s xxxx from the Princess Royal Hospital here. I am phoning about your dad Henry”“Yes”“As you know he is due to be discharged home today. Can you tell me what time the carers will … Continue reading

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Final Exhibition test

The table arrived from Argos the other day and so now I am in possession of everything I think I need for the final exhibition.  I wanted to test whether my envisaged installation looked as good in the real as … Continue reading

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Final Tutorial?

I had a good tutorial with Jonathan last Friday – probably the final one  of the MA – and we talked mostly about the exhibition and what I wanted to show and how, and the marketing of it. I showed … Continue reading

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Symposium 2: Term 6

Charlotte Webb talking about doing a practice based PhD “Charlotte Webb is Project Manager, Student Engagement (Digital) at the University of the Arts London. She manages institutional research and projects that investigate students’ experiences of digital technology for their learning. … Continue reading

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Dad’s ready for discharge

I came back from a (lovely) overnight trip to Portsea on Tuesday to find several messages waiting for me. There were three from dad. Two were jumbled and didn’t make much sense and one where he just wanted to catch … Continue reading

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Documentary submission: The Royal Photographic Society

So here is my submission. Limiting the submissions to just 5 images is tough!

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Supporting materials for the exhibition

I have always known that I would want to try and engage visitors with my work. The blog is a great way to do that in terms of on-going practice but what about the final exhibition? Accordingly I have spent … Continue reading

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Symposium 1: term 6

So yesterday the final term was signalled by it’s first symposium. I didn’t get to participate in the Jake Biernat talk last Tuesday, but managed to catch up with the video of it, prior to today’s presentation by Chris Wainwright. … Continue reading

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Dad’s at PEACE

I received a call from the hospital about dad from his doctor. She was following up our discussion regarding dad’s care and wanted to further the idea of promoting a palliative approach to it along the lines I had suggested, … Continue reading

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My part of the final exhibition

So I have pretty much all the key items I want to present in the final exhibition and how they might relate to each other and the wider work being shown. My items in relation to each other  Firstly there … Continue reading

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