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Welcome to the blog of Victoria Folgate: Fine artist intrigued by the ordering of natural objects, their confinement in space and the fine line between organic and machine....

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View Article  The Growth (Racecourse, Northampton)

The Racecourse (Northampton) Community Art Project, voice over by Heather Grieves.  Many thanks to Heather and Claudia and other volunteers ...   more »
View Article  Licky Hills Exhibition


Zion



I have just realised I have not put any images of my Licky Hills work on here!  So here are two videos of my works, one called "Zion" and the other called "Wretch"

Wretch
View Article  The Film Lab Talk to me about my work...shown at the Picturedrome (Northants) in March



Many thanks to THE FILM LAB for this! :O)
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View Article  Youtube account for vids
Horrah!  I have joined the 21st century and got myself a youtube account to upload videos to, thus no longer ...   more »
View Article  Public Footpath


Towcester   more »
View Article  Climate rant
As anyone who knows me will recognise....I have my issues with antropogenic climate change....having worked within the climate dynamics deptartment ...   more »
View Article  Open Studios
I have just taken on a role to help promote Open Studios in Northampton...as part of this I will be ...   more »
View Article  Androgyne
 

O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy ...   more »
View Article  Beyond the Next
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View Article  In progress

I'm being good and using rolls of paper to draw on, instead of trees, at least until it gets warmer ...   more »
View Article  Video of my exhibition @ the Alfred East
The video of my exhibition at the Alfred East.....   more »
View Article  Echoes
A video of my recent geometric ivy wall art in my studio.....   more »
View Article  The new focus
No, I don't mean I've got a new car!  The body of my artworks and exhibitions will be somewhat thin ...   more »
View Article  Video - Geometric Organicity - Tree 1, Northampton
My geometric organicity has started to spread to the trees now, much like my ivy nemesis ;)
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View Article  Recently.....
So haviing just completed a picture for my friend's wedding present, monochrome sunrise and the grand ununifed theory I found ...   more »
View Article  Open Studios 09: Kettering Library Exhibition
The smaller works from my Spatial Interactions and Image Reconstruction range (the ones what were in the mini exhibition at ...   more »
View Article  Private View
Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a success!  I had an excellent time and enjoyed the questions ...   more »
View Article  Private View Tonight & directions to Alfred East
It's the private view of my Alfred East Exhibition tonight, if you are coming and you want to know how ...   more »
View Article  Studio
I've managed to get myself a studio in Northampton which I'm really rather chuffed with!  So today we moved my ...   more »
View Article  Mini exhibition @ the Jesus Centre
Just a quick note to remind people that the smaller and more recent works in my Spatial Interactions and Image ...   more »
View Article  They're there!
The paintings for the exhibition at the Alfred east ARt Gallery are now happily at the Gallery, after what has ...   more »
View Article  Massive Ivy Bunting Organic Growth "thing"
I have now finished my big 3D paper sculpture thing..pictures of which you can see below.  It has spurs that ...   more »
View Article  Progress at the Slade - subconcious organicity and my project
The end of last week saw me take from the 3D project that I very much enjoyed and start work ...   more »
View Article  Weds at the Slade
Today we looked at the human form.  We looked at how to convey movement, the space a human takes up ...   more »
View Article  Slade Summer School
I am currently at the Slade school of fine Art for a couple of weeks, studying a course that explores ...   more »
View Article  Alfred East Exhibtion Web links
Yes, that's right, it's all coming together now, and there are some links to my exhbition on the internet...

http://www.kettering.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=1196...   more »
View Article  Exhibition update
Today I had a meeting at the Alfred East to discuss the particulars of my exhibition.  I was extremely impressed ...   more »
View Article  Alfred East Poster
poster for my exhibition....   more »
View Article  Google search popularity
whilst being sufficiently bored today I set about googling various different phrases to see how they related to my art...these ...   more »
View Article  Framing & exhibition jazz
Well it has suddenly occured to me that a fair proportion of my work that I am exhbiting in Augst/September ...   more »
View Article  Open Studios brochure...pg 23
Yeap, you've got it, there I am, on the bottom of page 23 of the open studios brochure.

And it ...   more »
View Article  Soundtrack to my weekend...
June's podcast....I think its pretty summery and makes me relaxed!   more »
View Article  Open Studios et al
I am pleased to have found out today that the open studios brochure has been published for Northamptonshire for 2009, ...   more »


Current/Upcoming Exhibitions

28th Aug - End Sept
Coombe Abbey, Coventry Two tree Paintings


Past Exhibitions

May 2010 - Licky Hills Country Park, Birmingham
"Zion" and "Wretch"

Friday 21st August - 3rd October
"Spatial Interactions & Image Reconstruction"
The Alfred East Art gallery, Kettering, Northampton

Community Art Projects

May 2010 - The Racecourse, Northampton
"The Growth"

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