Hannah Bishop

I find it weird I can see where the tub is upstairs

The things I don't like about my house make it a real house

To make it really true to life I've put them in black and white and upped the contrast (why are serious hard hitting photographs always in black and white, yes we can see the texture and yes they are beautiful but that's not how life sees. Anyway I'd rather see in sepia)

a gift of moral education

I received a very belated gift from two good friends of mine last week, a beautiful book of aesop's fables. Originally written by a story teller and a slave, an interesting mix of art and life. Some good moral reading for my journeys around Europe next week.

The Little Theatre of Dolls

Saw an ad in the Big Issue for their show /installation in London and wish I could get there (ends on 29th)
check out the tempting image in the ad and they have a beautiful explanation of themselves on their website http://www.thelittletheatreofdolls.com/
Have recently began to expand what it is that I see as art, from reading 'the blurring of art and life' it's come to make me realise it isn't about conforming to mediums or techniques, its more of an open ended exploration of the world we find ourselves in. Need to apply this to my work however!

I need to read more of this book...

'We are unable to accept rewards for being artists, because it has been sensed deeply that to be one means to live and work in isolation and pride. Now that a new haut monde is demanding of us art and more art, we fins ourselves running away or running to it, shocked and guilty either way.'
Why do I try to run away from it?

First play written by a women to be performed at the Globe

Bedlam by Nell Layshon, 5th September-1st October
http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/theatre/annualtheatreseason/bedlam/