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Day 8: 5th August 2022
Apologies for the two email alerts yesterday – I realised that the first had somehow missed out loads of information. I don’t know how it happened, because I don’t really understand technology! It was another quiet day at work, although there were a few passing visitors. One said that this was a rootscape, which I…
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Day 6: 3rd August 2022
There’s one big drawback to working with balloons as a mould – as long as they stay inflated, they’re excellent; but as soon as they pop or shrivel (which they quite often decide to do during the night), they take the damp cardboard mâché with them and the result is a wizened mess. I try…
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Day 5: 2nd August 2022
I’m feeling much more relaxed and in control today because, as you can see, one of the taproots has become vertical and I’m beginning to believe that the installation can work. The Courtyard Arts technician, Chris, came to help me in the morning; his experience, expertise and can-do attitude meant that within an hour, the…
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Day 3: 28th July 2022
There was a children’s art workshop going on this morning, so I had a lot of young visitors curious to know what I was doing. Many of them wanted to help, so I got them covering balloons with cardboard-mâché; they did a fantastic job and many will come back and see their work incorporated into…
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Day 2: 27th July 2022
I’m a little overwhelmed by the day I’ve had. Hertford seems to have a very high concentration of lovely people, and most of them seem to gravitate towards Courtyard Arts. I kept having conversations with new people, each one arty or interesting and usually both, each one engaged and lively and curious, with whom I…
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Day 1: 26th July 2022
First day of the residency! Courtyard Arts is a thriving arts hub in a quiet corner of Hertford. Once a stables, the gallery has a flagstone floor, sloping ceiling and big french windows looking out onto a courtyard where people have coffee and cake (sold inside). There are two studio spaces making up the two…
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SUSANNA CANDLIN - Artist 