Emily Roderick

Bio: Artist, producer and facilitator in London.

Website: https://www.emilyroderick.com

Instagram: @emilyhrodders

Day 30
11_years_later
A digital scan of a landscape card with black bell line drawings all over it to track your progress as a new bellringer. Some are coloured in with pink pen to highlight achievements reached.
Work By: Emily Roderick

Day 29
multiple_blue_lines
To the left of the portrait image are multiple zig zagged blue pen lines that creep down the page. They all begin at the same point and branch out from there. The background is white.
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Day 28
bell_movements
A short gif of Emily standing side on pulling a bell rope slightly to make it bounce.
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Day 27
Mufflecaps
A photograph of Emily's legs with the background removed and replaced with a pale brown background. She wears blue denim jeans, yellow socks, bright orange trainers and over her left knee cap, is a leather bell muffle (a tool to wrap the clapper to soften the sound).
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Day 26
Ding dong ding dong wanted
A screenshot of a post in 'freecycle' - a free giveaway platform for unwanted things. It reads: Bells, ding dong ding dong, I'm looking for bells and bell-related paraphernalia - do you have anything?
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Day 25
Oranges and Lemons
Screenshot of Wikipedia where there is reference to the old nursery rhyme about different church bells ringing in London. Full lyrics: Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's. You owe me five farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? Say the bells at Old Bailey. When I grow rich, Say the bells at Shoreditch. When will that be? Say the bells of Stepney. I do not know, Says the great bell at Bow. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, And here comes a chopper to chop off your head! Chip chop chip chop the last man is dead!
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Day 24
Very specific thoughts and references today
A cropped image of a phone screenshot. Specifically in the plain white notes app. It reads: Mars advert reunion generic indie boyband, all gals
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Day 23
elongated_diagrams
An A4 portrait scan of a double page from the bell ringing diagram book called 'Diagrams'. The page edges wiggle and dance, stretching numbers and lines across the page in ripples, making the diagrams too broken to follow.
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Day 22
public_blue_line
An 18 second gif of Emily using a blue stick of chalk to draw a blue zig-zagged line along a road, similar to a diagrams blue line in bell ringing.
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Day 21
Bell Ringing Image Description
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Day 20
Chat GPT wrote a description for me
A screenshot of 'bing chat' that uses the AI chatbot 'Chat GPT' to generate responses to questions. I asked it about writing 3 different proposals related to bell ringing. It's response: That sounds like a very interesting and challenging topic. I'm happy to help you with some ideas for your art proposals. Here are three possible suggestions based on what I learned from the web: • A performance piece where a group of ringers use handbells to create change ringing patterns in different public spaces, such as parks, streets, or shopping malls. The ringers could interact with the audience... etc
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Day 19
Hazy Echos
An A4 scan of a white piece of paper with three smudged words that have been rubbed into the page with a stick of charcoal and pastel. The words are softly smudged and read: 'Echo, echo, sound, joyful'. These rubbings have been taken from a church bell.
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Day 18
<--- --->
A short gif animation filmed on a phone in portrait format, but the gif is rotated to the left. Two legs in navy overalls and purple trainers are stood firm on a red carpet. Their trousers rise and fall slightly and slowly as well as a rope appearing from time to time. Overlayed on the gif is a thick blue line along the bottom and white arrows that slowly appear pointing down the right left and then up the left leg.
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Day 17
Following the blue line
A screenshot of the map of the UK in Google maps. A blue line zig zags down the country, tracking the journey route. It begins in the Highlands and ends in London.
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Day 16
'Clapper-less' ceramic bell
A 4 second gif of a 3D scan of a small ceramic bell on a wooden surface. The camera pans around the object to view different sides.
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Day 15
processing 3D scans of a ceramic bell
A gif triptych of three mobile phone screens. Thousands of small dots occupy a pale blank screen. Some dots are pulsating in bright blue. The camera zooms in and out of shot to look closer and further away from the dense network of different coloured dots.
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Day 14
bell thoughts more than bell actions
Screenshot of a whatsapp conversation between two people talking about if Emily's old clay from her parent's garden could be processed and used for new artworks. Her friend is offering to help with this process.
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Day 13
BELVISH
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BELVISH

Day 12
123
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Day 11
the blue line score
Bright blue screenshot with white text that reads: the blue line - online score together we carry(create) the blue line Gather between 5 and 12 people in a video call that displays all participants at once on screen Each person: Find a long and blue object you can show on screen and create a sound for it Take turns to make your sound for the group Can we all hear your sound? Using the screen as your guide, attempt to CONNECT your blue objects between participants on screen Whenever your blue object connects with another, make your sound A bell ringing method is to the right.
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Day 10
Ripples
7 second gif of two arms wrapped around a church bell. The person's fingers ripple at one point in their place before becoming still again.
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Day 9
Listening
Emily hugs a large church bell, with both her arms stretched around the middle of the bell. She wears a white hard hat and navy boiler suit, with a green hoodie peeking out the top. Her face is hidden, resting against the side of the bell away from the camera.
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Day 8
Round Sound
A4 white portrait page of rubbings using charcoal. The words 'round' and 'sound' are smudged bottom left. With two thin curved lines that begin from the middle-right and curve upwards to the centre.
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Day 7
Bell Hands
A long fluffy gold and burgundy bell rope hands central to the frame, zoomed in so not much of the plain rope is visible. Two hands reach up and grasp the rope. Their fingers ripple over the sally and shuffle slightly. A short gif animation in portrait format.
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Day 6
Holding onto the foundry
Emily, a white woman with orange short hair stands leaning against the wall with one hand. The image that surrounds her is a screenshot of the inside of Loughborough Bell Foundry. Littered with bell moulds and other equipment, Emily is superimposed (in low quality) over the image so it appears she is there, if a little too tall for it to be believable.
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Day 5
What if I told you that...
Screenshot of a dating app 'prompt' that reads: 'What if I told you that I know how to ring a church bell.'
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Day 4
Screen Recording 20230404 - Blue lines and bus drives
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Day 3
Reverse Chime
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Day 2
Diagrams
A long brown envelope is covered in two zig zag lines along it's front in red and blue electrical tape. The blue line overlaps the red zig zag as it trails off the end of the envelope. Envelope is in portrait format on a white background.
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Day 1
Bobs and Singles
On a blank page arranged mostly in the lower right hand quarter, are an arrangement of black, orange, pink and red squiggly lines that elongate and wiggle down the page. Numbers are lined up across these wiggles that fall down the page. Each line of numbers aren't fully clear, but the numbers change order each time.
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