Author Archives: lizzyhobbs

Silent Signal Symposium

  Tracy & Hobbs were invited to speak at Silent Signal Symposium, Derby University which explored collaboration between artists and scientist. Silent Signal is a project which enabled 6 artists working with animation to work with bio medical scientists, and their … Continue reading

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Our last day in the library

We had the wonderful Hydar Dewachi with us in the library, here are his pictures of the day.

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Collage workshop

Yesterday was a busy day, with a full group for our collage and Japanese bookbinding workshop in the morning, some wonderful passing by visitors in the afternoon and our brilliant young regular bookmakers after school. Emily and I managed to … Continue reading

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Rubber stamp workshop

Brilliant Rubber stamps carved by two loyal visitors to the press.

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Brian of Whitton

Joss told us that the handsome cat we had spotted on Whitton Station when we first came to Whitton was mostly called Brian (sometimes Thomas) and that he’s very popular.  All the library visitors knew him, and we made some … Continue reading

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Whitton update

We had a productive day in the library on Friday, we did some coptic binding in the morning, and Emily and I made small editions of a Whitton colouring book (book of the day!) and Whitton linocuts, which was an … Continue reading

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Linocuts

Yesterday visitors to Whitton Small Press made some beautiful linocuts based on an old map of Whitton.  For most participants, many of whom are local artists, this was their first experiments with the medium, which makes the results of the … Continue reading

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The first day of our residency

Emily and I have tidied the cupboard at the back of the library and installed ourselves into it, we come out on Wednesdays and Fridays for the whole of November and recieve visitors, to make badges, books and yesterday we … Continue reading

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Drawing with Nelson Primary School

The amazing group from Nelson Primary School have been tackling flip books from observational drawing, (above you can see their warm up drawings of bee’s, cups and koala bears) Emily and I will be filming their flip books to make … Continue reading

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Leaflet designs

Emily and I have been designing a leaflet for distribution that could advertise our residency in the library in November.  It happily involved getting all our rubber stamps out and playing around, this is what we’re good at.

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