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Confess your digital sins!

Sister Transistor is a short animation I made for the School Of The Damned x West Art Collective’s exhibition “I Was Baptised In Fortnite” at Antwerp Mansion, Manchester in January 2023.

It was inspired by a video I saw on the rise of digital ‘wellbeing’ apps, and by 20+ years of online culture and the place of religion in the digital world.

Some of the ‘confessions’ may be a bit more personal than I’d like to admit – but I’ll never say which ones 😉

Programs I used to create Sister Transistor

• Blender (3D modelling and animation)
• Audacity (sound editing and effects)
• Web-based text-to-speech
• Garageband (music)
• Premiere Pro (subtitling)
• iMovie (video editing)

Here’s another bit of news I forgot to mention – I am officially part of School of the Damned 2022!

For those not in the know, School of the Damned is an alternative fine arts programme in the UK.

In the UK, people who are interested in studying art are finding it more difficult, what with the cost of education, the image of ‘arts’ being seen as not a good career path, and everything that’s happen from 2010 onwards…

School of The Damned was founded in 2014 and each year of students chooses the next cohort.

It is independent (not funded or run by a central organisation) and led by the students, with labour exchanges and skill sharing an integral part of the programme.

This year there are over 100 people on the programme (including me and some Project Phlegm alumni!) scattered across the country – and sometimes further afield…

I won’t lie and say I’m not a bit overwhelmed and nervous, but this is an exciting chance to learn about alternative arts education methods in a practical way – doing rather than pondering!

More to come…

Some of my animations from Eastland Community Television are featured in Electric Medway 2022’s Virtual Gallery.

The animations featured are:

• Shopping
• Eastland Carpets advert
• Gum
• WÖRM

Electric Medway is a digital arts festival in North Kent created by the amazing SparkedEcho.

They also were shown at Lightspaces – an event on 20th August at Sun Pier House in Chatham.

You can see the Virtual Gallery until 28th August 2022.

But here’s an update – and it’s a big ‘un!

I’ve been busy making work for Fox Irving’s Women Working Class project and for a free, experimental online course for creatives by artist Ellie Hoskins called Project Phlegm.

You can see my illustrations and videos on the Women Working Class website.

Project Phlegm held an exhibition called Phlegm at The Royal Standard in Liverpool on 29/1/22.

Here’s the video I made for that exhibition, Eastland Community Television:

I have some exciting stuff to share with you soon. Also I’ll be updating this website in the next week or so.

Stay tuned..!

Hi all,

Still trying to work out how to make this website work…

Wish me luck!