Holding pattern

Hi (especially "hi" if you are coming here via Island Magazine)!

It's been swell, but the swelling's gone down.  I've decided to nuke this blogspot (eventually) and use my Tumblr to keep track of projects, adventures and things-what-I-like.

I now have www.pipstafford.com, which is a work-in-progress portfolio site.

I also tweet as @dotdash7 and instagram as dot_dash, so my social networking dancing-card is rather full, as you can see, hence my decision to migrate away from my trusty Blogspot.

Thanks!

Pip

Hi. Hello.

It's quiet around here, I know.

If you came here looking for some of my work, you can find a brief (and possibly incomplete) history of my projects by clicking on "my art" over there in the tags list. Similarly by clicking "illustration" you can find some of my drawings.

I'm currently in the process of building a portfolio site which will feature a full catalogue of my previous and current works.

Until then I'm using two tumblrs to keep track of my interests and research:
http://iwilltakeyoueverywherebianca.tumblr.com (more a scrapbook of "things I like")
http://allmyworldisscaffolding.tumblr.com (research for my project of the same name)

 If you want more information about a specific work, a design/illustration portfolio or some images please email me at pipstafford [at] gmail [dot] com.

I'll let you know when my (awesome) new website is running and I hope to have a more active blog-life in the near future.  At the moment (post-Honours year, post-2011) I'm taking some time to sort out all those little projects I've not had time to deal with (website, deleting old blogs, filing my receipts from 2007 onwards) and I'm pretty excited about some of the things that are about to happen.

I've got some fantastic projects on the boil including Touchy Feely Artist Talks + Exhibition at Inflight Gallery in January (it's a kind of symposium on relational/participatory art and what that means), In Search of Space with Rahni Allan at Sawtooth ARI in March and a few days later, a work at DorkBot at Serial Space, Sydney. 

So there ya go.

I'm over there

If anyone is still actually reading this poor blog, you can find more of me over at my tumblr these days.
Too busy for two blogs right now.

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Hello.

I was just accepted into Honours (to tack onto the end of my BFA).

Which means I'm going to be a student for the first time since 2004.
Hoorah!

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Hobart Art Walk

In the spirit of catching-up-with-things-that-have-happened-in-my-life-while-I-was-MIA, I forgot to mention I was part of the Hobart Art Walk, while MONA FOMA was happening.

The always-fabulous Nicole O'Loughlin was the instigator for this event, where Hobart artists got to hang their work in shop fronts up and down the main drag of Elizabeth St. Fran and I shared the window at Basket & Green cafe, just across the road from my old studio, The Rat Palace. Fran was lovely enough to hang and then de-install my work in my absence - yay Fran!

I just remembered

that I used to write and post poems on online literary noticeboards and chat rooms.
Under a pseudonym that I don't remember, pretending I was an adult, I loved the praise I would get for poems that were mostly heavily influenced by T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Adrienne Rich.

I was 13, I guess, and the internet was still a baby.

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This is me at nearly-28 with a new hair cut. I don't write poetry any more.