Author: benlingardstudio
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Uncertainty
I’m not sure that I often write these entries as a direct consequence of the Thursday discussion, but this week has given me a lot of food for thought. I think it’s because the conversation ranged across a lot of things that I have been thinking about a lot since I started this course: provisionality,…
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Piranesi, Escher, and Jeremy Bentham walk into a bar….
I finished a couple of little paintings last week: The starting point for them was some collage work that I made when I was planning the exhibition earlier this year. I think they are perfectly OK paintings, but what is interesting is that I also feel like I’ve moved on from them almost as soon…
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On writing
In the zoom on Thursday, I made the claim that I just bang these posts out. I’m not sure that that’s really true. I think it’s more that I have come to understand the value of the writing. I still don’t find it particularly easy. When I was an undergraduate, I was struck by how…
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Tutorial #6 – research paper second draft
25/09/26 Research paper tutorial with Janet Things discussed: Next steps:
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The weather of painting
So, this summer has been pretty stop-start in the studio. That’s fair enough. I took some time off, I did some teaching on the Summer School at work, and there has, to be honest, been a significant amount of indolence. I’m also trying to get used to working in the studio without a plan or…
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Non-corporate work streams
I’ve been back in the studio for a couple of weeks now and need to get back into the habit of posting regularly. More importantly, I’m trying to change the way I approach my studio time. One of the things this course has made painfully obvious is how much I rely on deadlines. Give me…
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Tutorial #5 – research paper
17/06/26 Research paper tutorial with Janet Things discussed: Next steps: This is the current draft. I am putting it here because it will be replaced by the next version on the allocated page of the journal:
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Experiments #4
I got a bit of time in the studio today, which was nice. It’s the end of the year at work and the terminal exhibitions are taking up a lot of my time, so being in the studio feels especially precious at the moment. I’m also conscious that I’m going on holiday for a fortnight…
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Forty-seven vaguely flat paintings of flowers
Whilst I was in London for the Spectrum install, I went to see quite a few exhibitions at commercial galleries. Most of these were in Soho and Mayfair because I was a bit time-poor and needed to keep things fairly contained. I only learned relatively recently that you can just go into these sorts of…
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Spectrum
A long train journey back from London tonight. I am glad that I made the trip down. I could have posted the paintings, or asked Jonathan to print them for me, but I was lucky enough to have the time available to go in person. I am trying to take every opportunity to learn something…