Author: Mindy Goose
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Creative Writing exercise
I recently attended a creative writing workshop taster session at Swarthmore Education Centre in Leeds, as part of an Arts and Minds Network event. This is the result of one of the exercises of free writing that we did. Based on the letter written by Robert Pirosh and sent to Hollywood film studios, we were…
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Tetley Workshop – Dancing Stick People
This workshop was in response to Simeon Barclay: Bus2Move, which is the current exhibition at The Tetley. The exhibition explores the relationships between performance, installation, costume display, stage design, sculpture and props. For my workshop the idea was to make stick people out of pipe cleaners, straws and beads, so that they were movable. Using a…
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Kirkgate Market – Halloween
I have been at Kirkgate Leeds Market twice in the last week, working with children on marvellous Halloween creations. Firstly on the Saturday for Same Difference Arts making Halloween monsters out of paper, and then on Tuesday helping with Playful Anywhere with the crafts. Saturday Halloween Monsters – the first photo are the prototypes I…
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The Story of a Lost Toy – Dog portraits
As part of my recent exhibition, The Tennis Ball, at Union Coffee House, I held a dog friendly viewing. I took portraits of the wonderful hounds, and here they are. We only had three dogs – Narla, Evie, and Mickey – but they were wonderful models, and will pose for a treat.
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Exhibition – The Story of a Lost Toy
click on the image above to find out more about the event On 29th September until 13th October, I will be showing the culmination of a year of collecting tennis balls. Images of discarded and destroyed tennis balls that is! Hosted at the Union Coffee House, we will be holding a one off special dog…
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Kirkgate Market – Carnival Masks and Hummingbirds
This is my second drop in workshop at Kirkgate Market in Leeds (organised by Same Difference Arts), after leading one making Pop-Up Puppets in Easter earlier this year. As before, I got to work alongside Miranda Johnson, who is a fabulous face painter, really approachable and I fully recommend her. I chose to do two simple…