Madeleina Kay
The Wallpaper Painting is Finished!
I feel like I've nearly destroyed my mental health in the process but I have managed to reach my target of finishing all of the portrait...
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'Jeanne d'Arc of Post-Modernism' - Handelsblatt, 2019
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Madeleina Kay
Nov 261 min read
Motaz's Colours
Motaz understood the "choose your colours" brief right away and sent me the following list along with a selection of really great profile...
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Madeleina Kay
Nov 243 min read
Brexitland
This book by Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford was very academic in its style, but I felt like I should read it because it focuses on...
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Madeleina Kay
Nov 181 min read
Sketching Motaz
I'm delighted to have found my final research participant! I first met Motaz at Stormont where I performed at an event for New Europeans ...
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Madeleina Kay
Nov 164 min read
Painting the "Wallpaper"
Since I have been focussed on my research paper and struggling with managing ongoing health issues since the Summer, I had rather let...
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Madeleina Kay
Nov 1017 min read
MA Research Paper - Cults of Scale: How Art Can Support Recovery from the Abuse of Power
Psychological manipulation tactics are deployed by totalitarian governments, cult leaders and narcissistic domestic abusers with the sole...
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Madeleina Kay
Oct 202 min read
Betrayal In Your Eyes - Music Video
'Betrayal In Your Eyes' music video filmed at the March for Rejoin III in London and the Brexiles exhibition in Cambridge. Jeff did an...
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Madeleina Kay
Oct 81 min read
Marcelo's Colours
Marcelo took the colour brief to heart and gave me the following, brilliantly poetic response: ORANGE This is my inner fire colour which...
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Madeleina Kay
Oct 31 min read
Sketching Marcelo
Marcelo is a Chilean artist living in London and will be participating in my research project. Marcelo only sent me three photos, so I...
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Madeleina Kay
Aug 188 min read
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
This was a challenging book to read, not least because of its length but the heavy topic was also galling at times. Since it is an...
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Madeleina Kay
Aug 132 min read
Adam's Colours
Me and Adam decided on the best photo to use for the final portrait and I created the linework portrait before adding the watercolour...
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Madeleina Kay
Aug 51 min read
Sketching Adam
I first connected with Adam, when he sent me an email to tell me about a pro-European concert he was organising and to express his...
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Madeleina Kay
Aug 21 min read
Sketching Ania
Ania is a Ukrainian artist living in Switzerland and a member of my art collective - Dare to Care . I made this series of three linework...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 301 min read
Oil Portrait Test - Lora
Lora's was my final "test" painting before I start the final oil portraits. I decided to start with a slightly different approach to the...
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 231 min read
Oil Portrait Test - Redi
I decided to make another "test" piece for my oil portraits, to see whether adding light splatters to the background added to the overall...
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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 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 61 min read
Sketching Nikita
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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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