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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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Placing it Out with other artists!

4/4/2017

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On Friday, Jackie and I set up the printing press at Action Space, Cockpit Arts Studio and invited the artists to share in a 'Placing it Out' printing session. Andrew Omoding https://actionspace.org/ whose work is usually sculptural often using cloth and thread, was very keen to have a go.
Relief printing really suits his art work and his materials. With guidance from Jackie he very thoughtfully and carefully placed his chosen materials out, following each stage through to a finished set of prints.  He said he really liked using the printing press. Beautiful results already!
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Rolling ink on the plate
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Placing the materials out
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Winding the wheel on the printing press
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Revealing the print
PictureAndrew's first relief print using a press.

So this is the end of mine and Jackie's collaboration, it has been very rewarding for both of us,
Both of us share an interest in drawing solitary women and at times lack some confidence in our artistic abilities, which is one of the reasons I was drawn to Jackie as a collaboratoring artist for this project.  
Through using these process based techniques we have worked fluidly together, enjoying the unexpected results and the deliberate pursuit of chance!
I’m really grateful to Jackie for being happy to work with me and for her time, her positivity and her sense of humour throughout.


Jackie:‘The first time we printed our drawing and got the final result of what we had placed, surprise came to our eyes, to see what we had done. Accepting and acknowledging what you have done is quite bewildering,
but it’s so good to see that this was you that did this drawing. It’s good, for you do wish to continue on!’

Our show Placing It Out  is at Swiss Cottage Library May-June 2017, just waiting on dates for the opening event!

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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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