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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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TWO OF US PLACING IT OUT!

3/20/2017

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On Wednesday we were at Black fox Bindery in Stoke Newington with bookbinder Nicky Oliver to learn some of the stages in making our book. Jackie began by folding the sheets into pages and used a tool called a bonefolder to make the crease. We are making ten books so we did this process ten times. This is a precise job which Jackie was particularly good at.
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Below are the folded sheets now laid out in neat groups of pages or 'sections'  ready for the next stage which is to sew them together. We will also have some lovely purple for the endpapers and here's the lovely Nicky preparing it for us!
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The pages are put in a 'cradle' to keep them in the right position and using a sharp pointed tool holes are made in the middle of them.

And below we are sewing with a needle and thread, through the holes from back to front with a special kind of stitch.
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Once the pages were sewn we helped prepare the cover and then sadly we ran out of time! so we left it in Nicky's expert hands to do the finishing off.

So here is our beautiful book, entitled by Jackie : "TWO OF US PLACING IT OUT'  and a sneak preview of some of the work inside.  We are so pleased at how it's turned out!

​We will be having a book launch and exhibition soon, dates to be announced, please contact us at [email protected]  if you'd like to come along, see the work or chat with us about our project and we will send you an invite! 

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Queensland Asian Women link
10/24/2022 02:40:41 pm

Hi nnice reading your post

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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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