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Here’s a glimpse of the show in its current location at the Hartley Library until Monday 28th September. See below for details.

Images courtesy of Jane Birkin & Laura Joy.

Having got married to Ben in June, I now have a new name: Alys Scott-Hawkins.

I’d be very grateful if you could update your address books please. Thanks!

Mysterious Histories, the show for which I was invited to make a selection of items from the Southampton Museum of Archaeology’s archive, has been invited to continue at the Southampton University library.

With a selection of objects from the collection and the addition of a new series of photographs and site-specific drawings, the exhibition takes on a new and different flavour in its new setting.

If you missed it at the museum, or would like to see it again, please come along to the private view on Friday 24th July, 5-7pm. All welcome!

Hartley Library, University of Southampton, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
023 8059 5000

Map here: http://www.multimap.com/s/hvN0Vl3I

The show has now been granted an extended run and will be open for a number of additional weeks. If you get a chance to see it, let me know what you think…

Last night a show of my new drawings opened at the Archaeology Museum in Winkle Street, Southampton. I have been given the privileged opportunity to access the Museum’s Collection, and have selected some weird and wonderful artefacts to exhibit, alongside a series of large-scale drawings. Please come along and have a look…

Here’s the lowdown:

This selection of artefacts from the Museum of Archaeology’s collection has been curated by artist and award-winning film-maker Alys Hawkins, to run in parallel with Grayson Perry-curated Unpopular Culture at Southampton City Art Gallery.

Responding to objects in the archive whose origin is unknown the artist has produced a series of large-scale drawings which explore and interpret the items; attempting to divine what lives these artefacts might have had, and asking visitors to imagine what stories they might tell us if only they could speak…

Call 023 8091 5732 for details of a family workshop and an artist’s talk.

Access: stairs to first floor. No toilets. Museum entrance fee: adults £1.95, children & concessions £1, under 7s free.

Winkle Street, Southampton SO14 2NY

Tues-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 1-4pm. Closed on Mondays. Last admission at 3.30pm.

www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/localhistoryandheritage/museums-galleries

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We started at 10 o’clock this morning and amazingly, the sail was in place by midday. A few tweaks later its installation is now complete! It’s still sinking in -it’s been an idea, a diagram and a work-in-progress for so long it’s hard to believe it’s really finished.

Huge thanks to Jabez and Zain from Squeeze18 events services for their good humour, help and hard work. Thanks too to Biz for all her assistance with the installation process. And thanks to Ben for being my right-hand man xxx.

Here are a couple of shots of me at work on the sail, a few doors down from my studio in Arch no. 4.

We’re all set to install over the weekend of Sat 6th & Sun 7th. Watch this space…

and a self-portrait from a member of BOA staff!

Drawings from the Audit managers meeting on 18th June. Thanks for letting me sit in!

Some developments on the design for the atrium installation, based on Kim’s idea of a spinnaker. This is a two-dimensional sail with a curved shape to suggest a spinnaker in full sail, hanging freely from above to allow for some movement, and tethered at its lowest point, as if to a mast.

I will be working with Ali Chaplin at Quantum Sails in Hamble, and hope to find out from him in the next week how long the lead time for the construction will be, so that I can begin to plan the next stage of this part of the project: drawing onto the sailcloth.

Here are the images of experiments with my model in the studio.

If you have any thoughts I’d love to hear them. Please drop me an email, or post a comment below.

Last night’s Front Row on Radio 4 brought to my attention the use of crochet to make geometric models of hyperbolic space, as practised by Dr Daina Taimiða at Cornell University
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~dwh/papers/crochet/crochet.html

You can listen to the programme here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/past_programmes.shtml

There’s a free exhibition of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef at the Hayward Gallery in London:
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/productions/hyperbolic-crochet-coral-reef-37f

And then I came across Knitted Mobius Bands:
http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mkmb.html

I’ve been playing with ideas for the atrium installation, and today’s is a Mobius Strip. What do you think?!

More drawings made in my sketchbook, from the first floor office.

Emma is now deciding the winners of the photo and caption competitions. Watch this space for news of who’s taking home that wine…

I can today officially announce prizes for the photo competition: bottles of Pinot Grigio & Brut Cuvee for the two most popular photos (get up there to have a look and cast your vote!) and as a special prize a bottle of sparkling rose for the best caption. The post-it notes are ready and waiting for your best jokes…

Winners will be announced next Tuesday 20th May.