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“The Long And Short Of It” Interviewing Adam Ogden Doncopolitan #01

Adam Ogden is a 3D designer and visual artist who uses scrap materials to create artworks which celebrate the lives of … More

Pin the Pits Wunderkammer

I decided to attempt to try and write this post on my recent collaboration with Cast, Doncaster’s long awaited performance … More

activist, Art, artists, Cast in Doncaster, coal, commission, contemporary arts, Esther Richardson, ghost dancer, heritage, mining, pin the pits, politics, theatre, wunderkammer

Curating with artist Dawn Howden “Translating Patterns”

Dawn Howden is a multi-media visual artist and lecturer at Doncaster College. Her current body of work “Translating Patterns” is … More

Art, artists, curating, Dawn Howden, digital art, doncaster, exhibitions, High Melton, New Fringe, twitter feed, White Gallery

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I’m feeling sad about leaving Doncaster College 😦 I had a great time helping to curate shows there last year. … More

Art, curating, design, doncaster, gallery, graphic design, graphics, High Melton, Simon Gomes, typography, White Gallery

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@asos you treat your workers in South Yorkshire like absolute crap. You’ve got away with it for years making all the profits whilst treating people as expendable. Now you are putting lives at risk. Lockdown means lockdown you absolute goons.

What’s your lockdown highlights? We’re in Barno keeping it real 😎

Proper rusty at drawing but Shiva says Ello 🔱

Week two of no Day Hospice done 😭 Really missing colleagues and patients. This week I’ve been spending my work hours supporting other staff members and doing some art therapy when needed. I’ve cleaned a lot of door handles, wrapped Easter eggs, done all my COSHH for art materials, helped IPU staff, done Ward Clark and reception duties and put my Fine Art degree to good use and made a sign. Feeling very lucky to work with all the nursing staff here 🙏

Happy Birthday to my bestie 💕💕💕 @queenie_more_love We met on the first day of big school in 1995 and still besties 23 years later. I really miss you Scarlett 💕 Looking forwards to when we can have a Kylie and Jason...”now we’re back together” moment.

He’s the King 😎

“Remember Your Roots Flower” This really inspired me as a kid. It taught me to look back at the history of my community and culture. It taught me about the disasters, the grieving, the poverty the strikes. My whole ancestry back to the 1750s is built on striving trauma. I draw a lot of strength from them and how they survived.

Me: it’s a right mess. James : not really. Just wanted to let you’ll into a secret...hope it may help anyone struggling with their anxiety right now. Just before Corona hit I was suffering with really bad anxiety and panic attacks. I had a panic attack in my sleep and then had another at work in Grimsby where staff called an ambulance out. I thought I was having a stroke. It really freaked me out but weirdly has prepared me for the challenges we are all now facing around panic and anxiety and it’s effects on the body. To try and get on top of how my mind was causing my body and brain Chems to trip out. I practiced mediation and yoga almost everyday, learning to calm down my nervous system through breathing and controlling my thoughts. This worked so much better than meds for me but it’s a practice I’ve been working on for the last 10 years (I’m not good at routine). You can easily get a good practice in a few months if you do it everyday. Anyhow, when Corona hit I was worried about spiralling back. All the coping strategies are working. Being outside getting my hands in the soils, collecting wood for the fire on @invisible_jim allotment has been the best way to escape and ground myself. I don’t know if this will help anyone, if you feel you are struggling and it’s too much you are not alone. Message me, I’m here to listen if you can’t talk to anyone else and you need to stay strong for your family, kids and friend. Please just message 🙏

My mamma Horne, what a lady legend. Think I need to curate an exhibition of her emails and cushions once this petulance over done 🙏

Namaste 🙏

@nomad.clan is coming to paint Donny via DMBC project @doncastercreates whooo 😆 This follows SPzero76 who came up in for Doncopolitancrawl (2018) and @phlegm_art via @arcadia_for_all for The Telling in 2015. There’s also loads of beaut pieces from @kosyfmb @fivefivedesignz around town centre you will have seen. Literally all boy artists doing these big pieces in DN1 till now. Thinking I might write something on this? If anyone is interested in the back story to these big commissions and critical thinking around street art in the U.Ks towns and cities ✏️

Ello 💜 Massive thanks to everyone that’s been following all my socials and the Podcast. I’m overwhelmed 🤯 I’ve had so many messages and calls. Thank ya ✊ Putting the podcast together takes a lot of time and effort, so I’m putting the feelers out if any local businesses or organisations would be interested in sponsoring the next one. Or if anyone would be interested in supporting my work via @patron where it would be £1-3 per month to support my work and you’ll get a gift in the post toooo 💕 #SoundingTheHorne E.2 will be an interview with my Daddo Dave Horne. My dad worked as a miner from 15 - 43. He’s one of my biggest influences. He’s taught me so much about working class politics, kindness and community. My mum was pregnant with me during the Miners Strike (I defo wasn’t planned 🤣) My dad is so fascinating to talk to as he has seen so many changes in the world. If you’ve got a question for him all ask him when we do the podcast. I’m always soo fascinated by his life underground and how his generation still pine for their pit village northern life. There’s something in all that has inspired me to do all the stuff I do in #Doncaster. Also wanna send out all the love to @rollinwithlindsay_ Who has taught me so much about using my socials to share my story and life. ❤️❤️❤️ she’s running an instagram course, join it! This woman will change ya life ❤️❤️❤️

Heya 🐶

King of the cush...

💕Eeek my podcast is out today 💕 Thank you to Meddan Media for encouraging me to tell the backstory to my work at Doncopolitan. This first podcast is all about trying to make a magazine happen in Doncaster after 36 issues, chasing funding and mental burnout. Myself & @arcadia_for_all have given an insane amount of ourselves to Doncaster and Doncopolitan. It’s been 10 years. We’re having a big rest from it all. 🤯🤯🤯 In the podcast I mention the some amaze people I’ve worked with over the years @marybisc @arcadia_for_all @rosieclark_1 Mel Hewit, @kosyfmb @bipolar.abdul.drag @imogens_world I’m really grateful for everything this experience has taught me. I don’t know what the future holds for @doncopolitan but since creating this podcast out of the blue an amaze squad of gals have come together to help shape it’s future online. 💗 Come be part of our creative journey 💗 💗Let me know what you think I really value your feedback, it’s really scary putting myself out there in this way 💗

My doggo he’s such a dream...

***New project alert!*** I’m working with Meddan Media on a Podcast. It’s called Sounding The Horne 🤣🤣🤣 Raj was the behind that name and also behind this pic too 🙈 I feel shy about sharing but the first podcast is all about why @doncopolitan is on Sabbatical and the whole history of trying to run a community arts magazine in Doncaster. About The Pic ______________ Me and Raj nipped up to level six in the @_frenchgate_ got told off by security sorry @thestyleitch I borrowed the mega phone from the Doncaster Waspi Women. Coat vintage @dkny jeans @americanapparel

Howdy, this is me with a big ass painting I’m trying to complete and sell. When I broke up with my ex - two years ago I moved into a new place on my own. The first time in 33 years I would be on my own. It had no heating and was snowing when I moved in. Thank you to @arcadia_for_all and @suzannewass for helping threw that brutal time. Anyhow, on the second night, I managed to lock myself in the basement. Luckily my gurl @suzannewass (aka Suzie the Shaman) told me to boot down the door which I did. Because I am obsessed with the idea of Availablism (making art with wot ya got) the door became part of my art and story. For the last two years they have been a back drop to my life. If you’ve followed my work and story you’ll know that my old work has always been about the Miners’ Strike and Doncaster. This new stuff I am a producing is much more visceral and otherworldly. Like many artist atm, I am totally questioning what is the point of art in the era of climate change and collapse. How and what I create is something I think about at lot. All my new work is minimal. Using just one tin of paint and brushes. It’s made me consider and reflect on the human condition (yeah deep I know) but when we paint and create lines it’s a physical manifestation of our soul and who we are as unique piles of matter and energy bumbling around. So this piece, is a mirror to myself and life just a Donny babe trying to live her best life in DN1. (Doncaster South Yorkshire, UK) About this pic: This is me trying to pose with my really long painting made out of a broken door. It’s still not finished but I’m hoping to sell it to help fund my MA in Art Psychotherapy @goldsmithsuol this September. I am an artist, writer, creative producer,spoken word poet, activist and I work three days per week in palliative care @stjohnshospice.

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