stephen ignacio
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Not Cheating. Translating.
It’s been a while. A lot has happened — and yet, very little. Sometimes art has to take second place while life rearranges itself. Mine did. I stopped pushing outward so I could stabilise inward. From the outside, not much changed. Inside, everything did. I asked myself the questions artists avoid:Why so many platforms but… Read more
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Unlocking Creativity… Not Quite
It’s been several months since I last updated this blog. Many things have come and gone, and some have stayed the same, continuing to linger like an annoying thorn stuck in a place you just can’t reach, with no one around to help you pull it out. During my time away from this blog, one… Read more
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Make it your own journey not someone else’s
It’s been well over a month since I last wrote anything in this blog. And not for not wanting to, but there was not much to say. The journey to finding a route, a pathway sometimes hits obstacles, hazards or crossroads and going through them you sometimes don’t know what exactly it is you going… Read more
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Let’s SQUIGGLE
So what is SQUIGGLE? It’s everything, and it’s absolutely nothing, it is as meaningless as you can get. Yet it is also an excellent excuse to smile, to feel silly, to forget the pressures around you for a moment and just to stop taking life so seriously. It is an opportunity to take the piss… Read more
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Great restart with “Lockdown:inked by Gibraltar Magazine“ feature
It’s been a good week starting with getting featured in the monthly publication The Gibraltar Magazine thanks to Elena Scialtiel. The feature focuses on my work during the lockdown, which I never did think would get much attention considering that my work was like a little fish in this massive ocean of noise. But it’s… Read more
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Burden – pushing the boundaries
The illustration ‘Burden’ pushed my own boundaries. Tired on limiting myself, as I had, by keeping my sketching style away from using other styles the iPad Pro through apps such as Adobe Fresco allows for, this was a release in allowing the styles to blend in one illustration. Colour is not something I am known… Read more
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A bit about me …. the tv interviews during the photographic solo exhibition
My interview for the Hub, GBC TV back five years ago when I had my solo photographic exhibition. The interview was based on my photography. I also featured on GBC’s Newswatch And on YourGibraltarTV Sometimes listening and seeing someone on the screen gives you a better perception on who they are. Whether this does or… Read more
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‘Living in a box’
Back in March I started this illustration in which I wanted to depict my own perspective of a lockdown through my surrealist-type illustration. As always with me it is never as easy or cut and dry as following a brief. I like things to evolve organically and with this illustration that became a natural thing.… Read more
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Ideas in sketchbooks are worthless if hidden
Some many years back now working for Vox newspaper I was fortunate to be given a freedom to write articles which were not necessarily part of the Main Street news scene. Yes I am a reporter, at present a sports reporter, but at one time I was in main stream news. Vox newspaper happens to… Read more
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No pigeon-holing, please, even in P.O.D.
Some years ago I decided I was going to try out something different from just drawing on paper or designing for clients. Always having been interested in printing trying out to do some silkscreen printing was somewhat of a flop. You just cannot start trying to screen print at even a small scale with a… Read more
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