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"But one of the problems for people with brain injury is being creative and
productive within themselves. Sometimes it is there, but it’s so rusty and torn to
the many different angles, it’s hard to fit it together again...... But you don’t
always have self-belief, and it is difficult to look back and see what you did do
once upon a time. And then perhaps you would try that element but it’s not the
same....... What I feel, thoughts and all the rest of it, I don’t always approach.
Unfortunately the bee has not got a hive to go into!"
​(from Jackie's story in 'Who Are You Now', Headway project 2016)
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HOT PLATE LADIES!

2/9/2017

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It was our final session at East London Printmakers today where Jackie is being introduced to the different stages and processes involved in making an intaglio copperplate etching and there are a quite a few stages!
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Breathing in the aquatint resin which is in powder form is not good for you so you have to wear a mask! After coating the plates they are placed on a mesh so that they can be heated up from underneath to melt the resin powder.
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Here are the etched plates of our drawings, inked up and ready to be printed.
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Working together to print our plates!
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And here are our ladies! 
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    ABOUT US
    The Beehive project is a three month drawing, printing and bookbinding collaboration between Rachel Thomson and Jackie Murin.


    Jackie is a participating artist at Action Space, she has been part of multiple exhibitions including the Cockpit Arts Open and 'The Shop of Curiosities' at the Geddes Gallery. She has volunteered for the Leighton Project at Elfrieda Rathbone Centre since 2009 supporting young people with learning disabilities in developing their arts practice. 

    Rachel  trained in photography and print media and has twenty years experience working as an artist. Her studio work is drawing and photography based using cyanotype, etching and monotype and is concerned with female identity and the environment. She also enjoys engaging others in the creative potential of process based art and  has been a regular artist volunteer at Action Space since October 2015.


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