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Glass Painting FUN !!
26th February at Otley Courthouse Click below for booking ! https://otleycourthouse.org.uk/events/bird-and-botanical-glass-painting/ Meet...

Liz O' Connell
Feb 121 min read
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NYOS Winter Open - North Yorkshire Open Studios
NYOS has two Open Studios per year and this was a much quieter Winter Open Studio on 2/3 November for NYOS , with 4 other local artists...

Liz O' Connell
Nov 4, 20241 min read
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Glass Teaching
I had the wonderful oportunity to spend some time at Otley Courthouse in September and held a workshop where the participants made a...

Liz O' Connell
Nov 4, 20241 min read
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Threads Textile Festival - Weaving Voices Exhibition
The Threads Textile Festival https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/gallery/threads-textile-festival-2024/museum-and-archive/ This is a...

Liz O' Connell
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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NYOS - North Yorkshire Open Studios
The North Yorkshire Open Studios had approx 170 Artists from a variety of disciplines who open thier homes and studios for visitors over...

Liz O' Connell
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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Open Call - The Old Parcels Office Art Space 2024
What an amazing and busy opening it was to this Venue and such a diverse and interesting collection of work - I showed 'High Conflict'...

Liz O' Connell
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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Weaving Voices - Sunny Bank Mills
My talk was part of a programme called Weaving Voices - funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and hosted by the Archive of artists...

Liz O' Connell
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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Sunny Bank Mills; Woven Stories & Weaving Voices
https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/liz-oconnell/ Liz O’Connell weaves with glass threads to creates glass textiles pieces that explore...

Liz O' Connell
Jun 14, 20241 min read
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Archive research
The Archive at Sunny Bank Mills has been a place of invaluable research enabling me to access the material and heritage of the woollen...

Liz O' Connell
Sep 28, 20231 min read
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Liz O Connell Glass - Open studios
York Open 20th Anniversary-Open studios Weird and Beautiful -Wild Threads I received so much engaging feedback from visitors during the...

Liz O' Connell
Jan 24, 20222 min read
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Archives and Mill Film Stills
The archives from Sunny Banks Mills and the visits to Bradford Industrial Museum and Saltaire were an inspiration.Making films and using...

Liz O' Connell
Sep 19, 20202 min read
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Textile Narratives and Domestic Dynamics
Below are photos from my (socially distanced) visit to the fascinating Sunny Bank Mills archive in Leeds (very close to where I was...

Liz O' Connell
Aug 11, 20202 min read
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Thread Things
This blog post marks the beginning of the final module of the practical part of the MA where I have found a framework for my practice. It...

Liz O' Connell
Jun 29, 20201 min read
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Drawing It Out.
Whenever you have your work academically evaluated, you feel as if there is a full stop, or if not a full stop, a comma punctuating what...

Liz O' Connell
Jun 13, 20202 min read
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Objects and Ideas
This is a fairly short post. I've taken photos of the glass objects I've fused so far and I'm making other glass stringer...

Liz O' Connell
May 19, 20201 min read
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Thinking in Objects
In the past week during the MA, we have been involved in tutorials and online artist talks (Matt Szösz). These have been very...

Liz O' Connell
May 12, 20202 min read
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'Working from Home'
Women have always been working from home. I will just like to start with a quick statement: this work will be submitted towards my MA...

Liz O' Connell
Apr 21, 20203 min read
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Wild Threads
This is my most up-to-date research for a Sunderland University Master's in Ceramics and Glass. My evolving art practice is based on...

Liz O' Connell
Mar 31, 20203 min read
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My Blog: Wild Threads
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