Madeleina Kay
"Who took away your sparkle?" cushions
Knowing that I had two spare cushions in my attic with very tatty covers, I bought some extra pink-glitter-princess-ballerina fabric so I...
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'Jeanne d'Arc of Post-Modernism' - Handelsblatt, 2019
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 162 min read
Recording - A Thread of Empathy
I wrote this song several months ago, for Dare to Care's public programme,'Ways of Healing', in Bologna, but due to electioneering, I've...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 151 min read
Troll Comments - "Everything is Material"
I've been collecting troll comments with the intention of using them in an artwork - after all, "everything is material". My initial...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 151 min read
Oil Portrait Test - Kristyna
I decided to do a "test" piece for my oil portraits on a canvas half the size which I will eventually create them on. I decided to work...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 141 min read
"A Very Middle Class Sort of Trauma"
This blog post is available upon request. I really hate drawing and cutting out the letters, but it's worth taking time over to make them...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 1410 min read
Losing Reality – On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindest of Political and Religious Zealotry – Robert Jay Lifton
This book was a tough read but absolutely fascinating to me as it relates so much of my work (both my creative practice and professional...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 101 min read
Nikita in Colour
I started with the linework in waterproof ink for Nikita's portraits. I have a cheat method for accuracy of using my Macbook screen as a...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 91 min read
Livia in Colour
Post elections I'm slowly getting back to making some progress on my identity research project... I need to be more focussed on this over...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 77 min read
"The Object of Power is Power" - Notes on 1984
I read 1984 as a teenager, and given that I have been reading texts on Thought Reform for my research paper, it was definitely time for a...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 61 min read
Sketching Nikita
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 55 min read
A Macat Analsis - Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer
In my hurried book ordering I accidentally bought the Macat Analysis rather than the original text of ‘The True Believer – Thoughts on...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 31 min read
Sketches from Durrës
Durrës is an Albanian coastal town about 40km from the capital city Tirana. I wanted to go somewhere else for a couple of days and this...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 21 min read
Vote Cruelty Out! General Election 4th July 2024 - Music Video
We released the music video for the "It's Time To Vote" song ahead of the UK General Election with a disability awareness message. I saw...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 303 min read
Sketches from Tirana, Albanian Rainbows & Mosquitoes
Before I arrived, my Albanian friend described Tirana (where he currently lives) as a "shit hole" - whilst respecting his opinion as a...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 275 min read
Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Exhibitions (with lil' sis)
I came down to London for the second year’s show, bringing my little sister along to expose her to some of the experimental creativity of...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 251 min read
"Blood Stains Like Ink"
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 233 min read
MA Play with Clay Day
For the last session of our first year on the MA Fine Art: Digital course - we had a “Play with Clay” session. I was so excited – I...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 222 min read
"Restore Nature Now" - A Mobile Art Exhibition
Retirement has radicalised my Dad – he never used to be this protest-y. I took him on his first ever protest march (against Brexit) in...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 222 min read
No Borders Exhibition at the RSA
JC Candanedo is a trustee of the arts charity I work for, an artist and photographer who has also agreed to participate in my research...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 202 min read
"We have been swimming in Shit" - Making Placards for XR March in London
My Dad invited me on an environmental protest march in London - which I find funny given that I took him on his first ever protest march...
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