Artist & Purveyor Of Obsessive Projects
So I finally got round to updating my sadly neglected news page. I hadn’t updated it since July. Oh the shame of it, Internets, the shame. So, in an effort to be a little bit more on top of things, here’s the news for January. PS. You have to imagine me reading this aloud to…Continue Reading “Newsie McNewsfest”
For the last few years, I’ve been taking photographs of house numbers and I’ve just released these photos under a Creative Commons license. So if you have a need for some images of beautiful numbers, please check them out. Kirsty Hall, No. 7, Jan 2011 Giesela Birgit over on my Facebook group asked me how…Continue Reading “Understanding Creative Commons”
I don’t do resolutions. I think they suck. If resolutions work for you, that’s cool. But it is my deeply held belief that January is long and depressing enough without making yourself feel like a failure halfway through because you thought you ‘ought’ to do something about your weight/finances/fitness/work-life balance or whatever damn thing you’re…Continue Reading “Resolutions suck”
Despite still being down with what appears to be Swine Flu, I managed to get out of the house today to start a new year-long art project. Kirsty Hall: Jar No. 1, decaying roses, Jan 2011 365 Jars is a daily walking project. Every day during 2011, I will be taking a walk to release…Continue Reading “Introducing 365 Jars”
My dears, I am taking some time off to hibernate. I have been pushing myself beyond my limits for months: I can’t even remember the last time I took a full weekend off, let alone worked normal hours. I need to eat good food; play in my art journal; have long lazy baths; read a…Continue Reading “Hibernating”
A little 3 minute video about the role drawing plays in my practice. First in a series of me banging on about drawing. While drawing. Drawing Story No. 1 from Kirsty Hall on Vimeo. See if you can spot the deliberate art joke. Oh, and if you want any art before Christmas, you should order…Continue Reading “Drawing as meditation”
When we moved into our house 13 years ago, the garden was so neglected that I thought I’d have to dig up the lawn just to have a few flowers. Then I started cutting back the hedge and discovered to my surprise that I already had large flowerbeds. They were just completely hidden by a…Continue Reading “This is not about gardening”
Ooh, categories vs tags, it’s like The Sharks vs The Jets. Except not. Other ways I could describe them. Categories are like tags on steroids. Categories are like your troop carriers and tags are the specialist troops that live inside them. Tags are little goblins but categories are orcs. Look, I’ve been up all night,…Continue Reading “Categories vs Tags”
Welcome to the Artist’s Eyeball launch party! Woo, streamers, balloons, cakes and small children peeing themselves with excitement (what, it could happen). Pull up a chair, pour yourself a drink and have a slice of cake… photo credit: Rubyran The Artist’s Eyeballs were quite insistent that they had never had a proper launch and that…Continue Reading “The Eyeballs have cake”
photo credit: ShironekoEuro[busy] 1) Customer Love challengers are amazing The support, love, ideas and kindness I’ve received from fellow challengers has been incredible. I’ve met cool new people and deepened relationships with existing people and this was undeniably the best part of the experience for me. If you are thinking about doing the next Customer…Continue Reading “19 things I learnt during Customer Love”