I can also be found over here: screaminglulu.com

August 31, 2010

My Invisible Woman film will be showing at The Textile Arts Centre, 505 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, New York in the exhibition Cutting Edge: A Celebration of Fibers, curated by Joetta Maue from September 17th to October 11th.  For details look here: Cutting Edge  

Hopefully this might inspire me to do some more stitching before returning to academia in October.

June 28, 2010

Half way through my second MA at Sussex (Gender and Media) and about to get to work on my 20,000 word dissertation which will, of course, be based around the pressure to have cosmetic surgery and how the media portrays women who dare show they have aged and the denial by those who have succumbed to the knife but haven't chosen to own up to it.  More of this later.

In the meantime, I have completed 2 essays - one which looked at Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' video and argued that despite her image of a young woman in command of her own agency, her performance is nothing more than a commodified and constructed image based on the ideologies of a patriarchal hegemony.  I was pleased to receive a B+ for this 5000 word essay.

Last term I wrote about French vs English attitudes to ageing and used Joan Plowright and Jeanne Moreau as representations. Two highly different actresses of the same age, with entirely opposing images.  This essay received a B mark and the constructive criticism of both essays has been hugely helpful and hopefully will enable me to attain an A for my final dissertation (and the 2 further essays which will be written in the next Winter term and then Spring).

So, all this academia has resulted in little creativity;  it's been hard to combine the two and this summer break should largely be spent doing some preparatory reading before the new term starts.

Hopefully in keeping up this blog, I will be inspired to clear my head and clarify my thoughts.  Any further stitched work can be viewed over here, on my more creative site - www.screaminglulu.com.

On final thought for the moment - I find it intriguing that I am split between the invisible woman and the screaming one; I'm not entirely sure what that says about me but when I find out, I will be sure to report back here.  In the meantime, anyone out there reading this, do please pop back for updates!

 

 May 19, 2010

Tonight I will be stitching here http://www.residencepop-up.com/# while people eat drink and make merry. I will be making stitchures of some of the diners. Cripes, no pressure then!

Framed stitchery

 

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March 11, 2010

check out ink'd where I am exhibiting my dating profiles, swearing pieces and blow job images! Hurrah, they wont be banned either!
Private view this evening, exhibition is on for a month. Check it out!

 

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December 09, 2009

Oooo so busy at uni, lots to do and all of it keeping me away from here and from my sewing machine :(

My 3 blow jobs images were exhibited briefly (and badly) at Shoreditch before being removed as they offended someone! I am amazed quite frankly but imagine if they were naked shots of women then that would have been acceptable (and so normal that no-one would have noticed really). Of course these images are uncomfortable and disturbing - that's the fucking point Shoreditch people! And I thought it was such a hip and cool area; clearly not!

 

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November 13, 2009

More absence....  I am reading, writing and watching old films (in preparation for a 5000 word term paper about Katherine Hepburn and her reel life vs her real life); my sewing machines are quiet and lonely and gathering dust...  I must return to them pronto, maybe this weekend, yes, I will, I will sew something this weekend.  I'm tired, I'm sleeping badly, my new pc has gone away for its 2nd repair and I am preparing for 2 christmas shows - one here and one here    oh and I have had a new haircut :)

So yes, I am busy and hot and tired but mostly happy.

More soon....

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October 15, 2009

Oh dear, I have no idea when I was last here, but I fear it was a long time ago for which - if anyone has missed me - I apologise.

I have begun my wonderful MA in Gender & Media at Sussex University.  It is quite brilliant, the course, the campus, the people, the coffee, the environment and, especially, the books that I am (attempting to) read.  I am delighted to report that the reading of these academic books is getting easier; I dont have to look up every other word anymore.  Just every 5th word perhaps. 

Currently I am wading through an article called "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" and "Bisexual Women, Non-Monogamy and Differentialist Anti Promiscuity Discourses" and of course not forgetting "Who's Afraid of Feminism", "The Will to Knowledge" and "Feminism & Sexuality" (stunning!)

So, needless to say my poor little sewing machine is currently getting a tad dusty as I havent had time to sew anything.  I did have a successful exhibition at the Brighton Art Fair - though I probably only covered my costs, I did have a huge amount of appreciation for my work, with the exception of the woman who took offence to this, in fact she was so offended by it
Bollocks shit wank
she had to take a photo of it, which amused me no end.

 

It was wonderful to see people come along and simply smile or laugh at my work (in the nicest possible way of course!) so I dont mind that I didnt have a sell out.  I dont know that many people did.

I did get some interest from a local shop and I will be featured in their window next week for 2 weeks plus an invite to share a Brighton Xmas Open House with the lovely Lisa Gellender.

So I am still somewhat hovering in between academic and creative mode, mostly in academic mode but as soon as things calm down a little and I get into some sort of normal routine, my sewing will be inspired by all that I am absorbing via books and you will see the results here..  at least they will be posted here anyhow; whether I have any kind of audience is another matter!

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August 15, 2009

men who watch too much porn

I am intrigued (and disappointed too) by the way women conform to the ridiculous sexist ideals that pornography continues to espouse.  It's all so dreary and predictable and, of course, misogynistic.

I also find the nonsense that (some) men come out with as they spunk all over your face, assuming that women like it, rather pathetic I'm afraid.  (I know this sounds like I have turned into a very prim and proper 50 something spinster which is soooooooo not the case!)

Anyhow, here is my response to my latest niggle (there will be more of these soon)

TELL ME YOU LIKE IT, BABY

 Tell me you like it baby

TAKE IT SLUT, YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT


Take it slut, you know you love it 2

TAKE IT ALL, BITCH

Take it all, bitch


 


 

August 4, 2009

A nice little write up about me by those awfully nice people at Design for Mankind

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August 01, 2009

busy and yet bored

I havent sewn anything for a while; I've gone into a strange place and hopefully will escape it soon. I have a zillion books to read 
A few books
in the next couple of months before my MA starts.  Some I can understand and am enjoying.  Some are way too wordy for me at the moment. Hopefully that will change.

 

I just need to get on with it and stop wasting time and feeling sorry for myself!

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