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"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...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 18, 20242 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...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 15, 20241 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...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 14, 20241 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...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 10, 20241 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...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 9, 20241 min read


Sketching Nikita
This blog post is available upon request.

Madeleina Kay
Jul 6, 20241 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...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 3, 20241 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...

Madeleina Kay
Jul 2, 20241 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...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 30, 20243 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...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 22, 20242 min read


Preparing for filming the "SICK NOTE CULTURE" music video
It had always been my intention to recycle the ‘It’s Time To Vote’ song which I wrote for the YEUF project (mobilising young voters for...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 17, 20245 min read


Becoming British Scratch - Migration Matters Festival, Sheffield
I was expecting a good show from my dear friend Lora Krasteva, but I was blown away by her 'Becoming British Scratch' performance as part...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 15, 20242 min read


"her singing has made EU countries vote far right" - more troll-a-lol-a-loll-ing
I've been collecting troll comments which appeared on my posts from events ahead of the EU elections 6-9th June. This was partly to share...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 11, 20242 min read


When you discover 8 years of your creative practice have been archived on Alamy Stock without you realising...
Yesterday I was chatting to someone about the experience of being drawn for a portrait artwork - I wanted to send them some examples,...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 10, 20243 min read


It's Time To Vote - EU Elections 2024 Music Video
I wrote the song, 'It's Time To Vote' last year in anticipation of the upcoming elections in the UK and EU in 2024 - the "Year of...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 5, 20242 min read


YEUFvision - Youth Participation in the 2024 EU elections
Miraculously, I managed to edit the YEUF project documentary which I have been filming over the last year in five (and a half) days, in...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 4, 20242 min read


A Total Wash Out - Singing in the Bavarian Rain
I probably should have cancelled the trip to Munich – I caught another flu virus during the trip to Romania and the trip to Belfast only...

Madeleina Kay
Jun 2, 20245 min read


Am I a bad influence on my Dad?
My Dad's dream, for about five years before he retired, was to buy a house boat and spend his retirement on the British waterways. But...

Madeleina Kay
May 25, 20242 min read


European Unionists bring their "constructive ambiguity" to Stormont
After I had landed in Belfast, and recovered from my temporary vertigo / nausea, I headed into the city centre, where I left my guitar at...

Madeleina Kay
May 25, 20249 min read


Sketches from Bucharest
I was travelling to Romania for a “YEUF project” event – my main mission was to record video interviews for the documentary I am making...

Madeleina Kay
May 20, 20247 min read
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