Al Hill

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Day 30
Make more care less
scan of sketchbook pages. there is a watercolour background, with various reds blues and yellows blending into eachother. in the top left of the page, there is the words “make more” and in the bottom right, “Care less”. The words are white against the background, and written in black pen, with colouring pencil surrounding. in the bottom left and top right corners of the page are two crude drawings of some cats in black marker pen. One is black and white, the other white orange and black. In the middle of the page is a stuck in texture print, that follows along the margin.
Work By: Al Hill

Day 29
spotting bugs
photo of two small silver millepedes on a damp piece of wood outside. The bugs are shiny, and stick out against the dark wood!
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Day 28
🐌gary
photo of a garden snail, slithering on a wooden fence. The fence has cobwebs, and is surrounded by green ivy, and other greenery.
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Day 27
missing the transition quilt
photo of a black cat resting on a sketchbook open to two pages. Theres a bright watercolour, which is a sketch of a quilt. with lots of phrases like “its okay to be gay” and other such phrases. theres also a phase, and lots of dots. though it’s quite hard to pick shapes out as its rather sketchy and rushed though very colourful.
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Day 26
thinking of woods and corvids
scan of a charcoal drawing in a sketchbook. It is messy and seemingly unplanned. there are two birds flying in the top left, as very dark shadows. There is 2 trees taking up most of the page, and theres diagonal lines like its raining. There are also lines of feathers and leaves scattered around.
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Day 25
carrot.
watercolour painting of an orange carrot, laying on a blue background. the word “carrot.” is written above.
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Day 24
one less thing, watercolours from a few weeks ago
Watercolour painting of a travel watercolour set. the set is colourful, with different splodges of colour blending into each paint pan. It’s obviously a well used and old paint set, though the painting seems to be quite clean with a white background.
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Day 23
tadpole lads
Scan of sketchbook spread. The pages are covered in colourful watercolour, and charcoal mark-making. There is a large tadpole with red eyes, marked out with black charcoal. theres also lots of little tadpoles swimming around in the colourful water, with bright red dotted eyes too. There are some plant leaves too, painted that look like pond weed.
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Day 22
fish pond fishy guy
photo of a small whittled fish, which is long and made of a light wood. its sitting on top of a bright red plastic stand, which holds emergency rubber rings. in the background, theres greenery of trees and a distant pond!
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Day 21
Being accessible means i can take a rest
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Being accessible means i can take a rest

Day 20
i want to but i cant
photo of sketchbook. red sharpie writing is scribbled on top of some charcoal markmaking. the words say “ I want to have the time to just make. but the world is falling apart & I need to help people live (including myself)”
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Day 19
“make some traditional artwork”
photo of a charcoal drawing in a sketchbook, of a persons body relaxing in bed. the sketchbook is a life drawing of the person behind the book. they are a white fat person, with bright pink and messy hair. They have fab curves and it’s celebrated in the drawing!
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Day 18
constant ugly ministers
Graphic digital collage of many words, from a news source. the original title read “ministers may soon unveil new guidance to let single-sex schools reject transgender pupils of the opposite sex.” the words “ministers” “reject” and “transgender” are repeated and layered mostly over the text, as to read as a 3 word sentence in the foreground.
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Day 17
life model anarchy
photo of a sketchbook, with rough charcoal doodles of a cat. the sketchbook is held in front of a cat, with orange black and white splodges. Shes sat in front of a window during golden hour, so the lighting is gold and bright as the sun is setting. Also theres lots of smudges on the window, from where the cats look out at the birds.
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Day 16
soft flagging
Photo of a fabric mini pennant banner. its homemade, using various scrap fabrics of green gingham, flowers and light purple canvas in line’s crossing over eachother. there is a embroidered circle in the middle, that goes over the scraps. there is also white shiny tassles hanging at the bottom, covered with bright orange ribbon. The whole pennant is held up with pink wool, that has large wooden beads hanging from them too.
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Day 15
The Transition quilt is home!!! unboxing!!
Screenshot of a video call with 3 participants. Top left there is Colin Lievens, smiling at the camera. They have a colourful quilt in their lap, and there is a fishtank behind them for their fish named Linda. Bottom left is Joe, their face covers most of the screen and they have ruffled light brown hair and black glasses. Top right is Al (the artist) and they are smiling in bed, and have clearly uust woken up! they have glasses and brown hair.
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Day 14
wet rag
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Day 13
I tried to submit this yesterday but i forgot
Hand holding up a felted odd circle. theres patches of different colour felts in yellows, reds, blues greens and purples. They form a round 2d object attached to some canvas. A white persons hand is holding the canvas in the corner of the frame.
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Day 11
My sculpting team at work for me, a professional artist who doesn't know how to sculpt
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Day 10
Collaboration is give and take and our babies were giving nothing
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Day 9
Artquest team, how diverse are you?
graphic of text covering a bright pink Transgender symbol on a white background. The words are in a dark blue typeface saying “queer people are constantly being murdered. any work of mine could be my last”
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Day 8
“do you ever feel we’re getting transer?”
Digital photo collage, of some friends being domestic. theres a background image with a blue filter, where one person sits on a windowsill and the other lays on the sofa. the living room is filled with various ephemera and frames all across the walls. In the foreground, there is another image of 2 queer friends styling the others hair, this image has a pink filter. The quote “do you ever feel we’re getting transer?” is written across the page in a white font.
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Day 7
i like tadpoles and frogs
photo of a crude drawing on the ground, its sketches of tadpoles and frogspawn seemingly drawn using a stone. The stone is grey, and there is also a grey border around the image.
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Day 6
Selfie in the style of Katie Goldfinch
A scanned page of a printed selfie, of the artist posing with their phone in the bathroom mirror. The bathroom has off white yellow walls, with various posters about covid 19 and very clinical soap dispensers. It has clearly been taken somewhere medical! the artist is a white transmasc person with long brown hair and glasses. He is wearing a purple patterned shirt with a ladies print, their phone is also purple. Their is writing doodled over the print in sharpie with the words”all we want is basic support. We cant even pee without fear. Piss on pity. Access for all”
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Day 5
outdoor composition (failed cynotype)
photo of bright greenish fabric folded and scrunched against a trees branches. theres a pansy flower face down, and a bright yellow childs fishing net rests against the fabric. its messy and nonsensical.
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Day 4
cat revolution now
Fabric square of various scraps sewn together. theres a cat fabric as a background. There is a bright blue strand of fabric swirling around the piece, which has been sewn on with bright red thread. At the top, there are the words “Revolution Now” written in blue pen, and then outlined with thread.
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Day 3
dungaree repairs
digital collage of 3 different close up images of stitching and patching to repair some dungarees. they are denim, and with blue and white stripes. the sewing is patching a rough large hole, with the patch being a light blue plain denim.
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Day 2
ive tried but the world still fucking hates us and im exhausted
Scan of sketchbook with angry writing across images of a crossword, and a caution sign. also a self portrait crudely drawn on some bright screen paper. the words, ‘TOO LOUD’ spread the page, as well as “today has been too much”, “I’m exhausted” and across the bottom, “The world fucking hates us”
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Day 1
Why would i take an artwork to an island when nature already exists ???!!!
Scan of sketchbook. there is a collage of ripped different natural textures like grass and water layered together. A picture of a black and white goose is also in the frame. The words “Why would i take an artwork to an island when nature already exists ???!!!” are messily written across the page in pencil and pink pen.
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