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Project Cardiff

Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Posted in: Blog, Collaboration, News Feed

ProjectCardiff will consist of a series of portraits of those people who make a valuable contribution to the life and soul of Wales’ capital city.

This inaugural chapter of ProjectCardiff will focus upon those individuals who are making a positive contribution to the creative cultural life of Wales’ capital city. These individuals may be involved in some way with artistic, creative, design or cultural endeavours: people who help to shape, influence & make a difference in Cardiff through their talent, enthusiasm and hard work.

ProjectCardiff invites the community of Cardiff to participate in this project by nominating their own creative and inspirational heroes. Help us identify these individuals whether they be artists, activists, architects, bloggers, crafters, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, film makers, organisers, promoters, performers, imaginators…

What is it about these individuals that impresses most?
How are they making a difference?

ProjectCardiff seeks to unearth the interesting and inspiring stories of Cardiff’s inhabitants and draw people’s attention to the city’s vibrant energy and abundance of talent.

ProjectCardiff is not intended to be a popularity contest and as such individuals will not be selected based upon the number of nominations they receive. Nominations for neophytes to the creative and cultural industries will be considered with equal merit to those received for long established creative entrepreneurs who have brought a multitude of activities, events and other projects to the city.

A selection panel will be convened later this year to assess the nominations received along with those names canvassed from conversations with the lovely people who dwell in this energetic young city following which individuals will be invited to sit for a portrait by the talented photographer Lann Niziblian.

Do please visit www.projectcardiff.com to make a contribution to this project and nominate a Cardiffian who has inspired you recently.


Photograph by Lann Niziblian: ‘Daniel’ (2011)

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Pinhole Photography

Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Posted in: Artwork, Blog

These are two images I created using a home made pinhole camera whilst on a trip to Southerndown beach when I was in college many moons ago. I discovered them again recently after a spring cleaning session.

The first (white) image is the original negative that would have been housed in the pinhole camera; the second (black) image is the final positive image that was created by contact printing from the negative in the dark room. If I remember correctly, the elliptical centre focal point which is flooded with more light is the result of having used a curved vessel to house my pinhole camera.

I really enjoyed the physical process of capturing and printing pinhole photographs. It’s just a shame that it’s so impractical to dabble with these processes in the real world.

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Invictus

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Posted in: Artwork, Blog

Invictus: Hobby-Horse /Unicorn

Say hello to Invictus*, the first hobby-horse I’ve created as a part of my polycorn-posse. For those who don’t already know Invictus is the result of my current Unicorn-Porn project. The project initially started with an inquiry into some Welsh myths and legends and has since morphed into this body of work which, amongst other things, question our understanding of ‘play’.

Invictus: Hobby-Horse/Unicorn

*Invictus, was so named because, no matter what he did, his erection was perpetual, was furnished with an engine eleven inches long and seven and fifteen-sixteenths inches around. Greater ones, who had difficulty stiffening, had been turned away to make room for him who, regardless of the quantity of discharges produced in a day, rose heavenward at the slightest touch.


- from The Marquis de Sade. 120 Days of Sodom (or the School of Libertinism), France 1905

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Naked Girls with Masks

Sunday, February 19th, 2012
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I found this magical series of photographs whilst looking for unicorns. The work is by photographer Ben Hopper who asks ‘Why do we cover our bodies but display our faces. They remind me of some prints produced by Tado a couple of years ago featuring girls in lingerie wearing giant panda masks.

The unicorn girl in this series is also the closest image I have found to my unicorn drawings and interestingly my unicorn hobby horse resulted from an intention to produce a mask. I still have ambitions to produce a mask so it’s been great to stumble upon this photo-set.

You can view the whole series of photographs so far on Ben’s website here: www.therealbenhopper.com

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Ross Gilmore

Monday, January 9th, 2012
Posted in: Blog

I discovered this image via the wonderful ThisIsColossal blog last week. The photograph is by Ross Gilmore who’s really rather good although from those images I had a look at this definitely stood out. Those of you who know me well will understand that as it definitely appeals to by love of all things uncanny and grotesque.

You can check out more of Gilmore’s work right here.

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