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Art: Best laid plans…

Aug 13, 2020Aug 13, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Prepping was never one of my great skills before my brain injury. Something must have happened...

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Art: Sam Jevon, In Colour And In Black and White

Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Every week I get transported back to 1977. It happens briefly but powerfully, via email...

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Art: A split-second with TikTok

Aug 12, 2020Apr 12, 2021 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

It was a blink of several young people pulling up veg in a farmer's field

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Artwork Archive: Earthslice

Aug 10, 2020Aug 10, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

It was meant to be suggestive of the geological diagrams we'd sketch in our school exercise books

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Snapshot: The Pond, Winnall Moors, Winchester

Aug 9, 2020Aug 9, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The spectacle that greets you will live in the memory for a lifetime

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Video: Winnall Moors, Winchester

Aug 7, 2020Aug 9, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A chance encounter with Chris Packham or Clare Balding wouldn't be a wild surprise

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Word Wall: Nick Cave’s Into My Arms

Aug 6, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

My diaries often contain incidental thoughts or things that flit in and out of my mind

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Artwork Archive: Razz Girls

Aug 4, 2020Aug 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The three women have fallen into a sort of driving rugby maul

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Art: Population in pictures

Aug 3, 2020Aug 3, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 2 Comments

The two images are strikingly similar and yet very different

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Video: Barbican Conservatory

Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 4 Comments

These videos are partners to In pictures: Barbican Conservatory Colonel Kurtz has left the building... Wild swimming... No escape from paradise... Visit Barbican Conservatory...

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In pictures: Barbican Conservatory

Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

Lost in its wild vegetation and pondlife, you can easily dream of a better world

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Art: my weekly appointment with failure

Jul 30, 2020Jul 30, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The sessions have become an exercise in self-inflicted humiliation

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Artwork Archive: Sharing in Deep Space

Jul 29, 2020Jul 29, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

It is a dark world occupied by words and icons

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Video: The thread is my paint

Jul 28, 2020Jul 30, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

‘The mouth was wrong. The hair was, too, and the nose. Those ears are a disgrace’

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Artwork Archive: The Moon

Jul 27, 2020Jul 27, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

I thought Tony would enjoy the idea of an astronaut discovering a dog on the Moon having a crap

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Masculinity & Me: A photography workshop

Jul 25, 2020Jul 26, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

'What does your photo say about you and your relationship to masculinity?'

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Picture: First Meal Out

Jul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

At the 'Sloaney Pony'

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Artwork Archive: Stephen Fry’s Ever Expanding Brain

Jul 20, 2020Jul 22, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'His head seemed to be growing taller and taller'

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Artwork Archive: Can Isaac, Catalonia

Jul 16, 2020Jul 16, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

'...Where a dog barking is a main event'

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Video: My approach to figure drawing

Jun 25, 2020Jul 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

'The human body is a collection of balls and sticks'

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