Thursday 15 December 2016

Artlings and booklings


Hands not working, so I poured my art into writing, each word turned, charged, tasted, sniffed, sequences laid out in line and prised apart again, ever so slowly, until tiny, concise feats of beauty emerged. SUPINELY SUBLIMELY started life as a mini-blog and now it’s a book! Material existence matters…
Here’s how it begins:
Textling #1
When the pain goes I half suppose my flesh marked, transformed. A growth of lichen, say, with its warm turmeric tint; a layer of cool, silvery fish-scales; traces of the glacial burn of chain-mail melting into skin. Best of all a delicate, graceful articulation of relief on the site of its worst excesses: once the sharp, piercing jolts give over to prickling, tingling sensations (as if the top of my skull were open or at least porous), the tiniest, downiest feathers could unfurl in the round, a bit like a peacock’s crest – thin stalks topped with trembling blowballs.
But there is nothing, not a wound, not a bruise, not even the flushed tone of a limb pressed against the mirror, straining elsewhere.
You can order SUPINELY, SUBLIMELY directly from Palewell Press. Or here, if you're in the US. Enjoy!

Friday 8 May 2015

Solo-show and other delights

#artling 43 (2015)

On Saturday I gave an artist's talk via Skype during the private view of my solo-show Strands of wishful thinking: Hairlings and other things at R-Space Gallery in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
Here you can see an illustrated version of the talk, which will also give you an impression of the actual exhibition:

Greetings from the in-between

Marion Michell 
Strands of wishful thinking: Hairlings and other things 
2 – 30 May 2015 
Artist’s talk at 3 pm on 2 May 2015 

R-Space Gallery 
The Linen Rooms 
32 Castle Street 
Lisburn BT27 4XE 
Northern Ireland

Friday 1 May 2015

Greetings from the in-between!


Tomorrow my solo-show will open at

R-Space Gallery
32 Castle Street
Lisburn
Northern Ireland
BT27 4XE

Exhibition: 2 to 30 May 2015
Opening Times: 
11am - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday
Artist's talk (via Skype) 2 May at 3 pm





Sunday 8 February 2015

All and none

#artling 34

Happy New Year to you! 
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Sleep-drunk I dance

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Monday 15 December 2014

Wavering&wariness

First time the sea (2014)
Materials: Photograph and crochet
Dimensions: 13.8 cm x 20.2 cm

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Sleep-drunk I dance

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Wishing you a relaxing&restoring Xmas-break!

Monday 8 December 2014

Seasons of the Fall





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Sleep-drunk I dance

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Sunday 30 November 2014

Sideways glances, edgeways stances

Nary a one (2014)
Material: crocheted from wool/silk yarn
Dimensions: 39 cm x 48 cm

Nary a two (2014)
Material: crocheted from wool/silk yarn
Dimensions: 24 cm x 30.5 cm

As ever I'm posting images here, and if you're interested and would like to find out more their context please follow the link to my blog  

Sleep-drunk I dance

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