JENNI'S LATEST POST ON FACEBOOK

Lovin it in Saigon.Up early doors today and went crawling through the cu chi tunnels.Claustrophopic!! Away for a snooze now.This heat just kills me.Still better than winter back home tho hahaha.

CALUM'S EMAIL FROM THAILAND

Calum's settling in to his new lifestyle just nicely...

Re: world tour

Alright Alan.How's things?Just back from the jungle in chiang mai trekking for three days.Had an amazing time,scenery was beautifull, could'nt believe i was actually there.We spent the night with a hill tribe,totally surreal!fucking wilder beasts,piglets,dogs,cats,chickens and women with their baps out haha.A lot of the tribal people were refugees from burma.One of the elders was a shamen,which i thought was prity cool-i named him wullie the witch doctor haha although i was a bit suspicious of his wizard ways as he only seemed to break bamboo up and make a fucking mess.Yesterday we were on elephants,hated it-the guy on mine just nocked the shit out of nelly with i metal hook,not cool!
We had a great bunch of people in our group and all went out for dinner last night and think we are off to see some thai boxing tonight!

I'll be intouch soon mate, take care!

LIAM HANSEN - MASTER OF HIS CRAFT

Liam Hansen is one of Nori's senior stylists. A very dedicated hairdresser, he is certainly a Master of his Craft. He offers consistent high standards with his salon work and client care, and is always looking at new ways to expand his knowledge of the industry. 

CALVIN FROM HOLLYOAKS

Whilst staff waited for new posters for the staffroom, someone decided that, rather than have bare walls, they would have a bare Hollyoaks hunk. Calvin in his Calvins. Woo! 

  

LAURA'S NEW HAIRCUT

As the Lower Foyer Gallery received a make-over, Laura took some time out from her busy curator's diary to have a haircut. With a bin bag (check it out Fraser!) for a cape and no mirror, I indulged in a bit of scissor-over-comb graduation and some over-directed layers. My friend's daughter once cut her fringe off to 'match her dress'. During our haircut smalltalk, I told Laura her new hair was inspired by her shoes.. Exhibitions expert Laura seemed very pleased with the outcome.

JENNI'S FIRST EMAIL FROM THAILAND (u better miss me!)

Battling jet lag and sweaty Bangkok internet cafes, Jenni has sent her first message from South East Asia..

Hey u guys.well im safe and sound.just beginning to get my head round it all.Had a long nite.Think we suffered jet lag.Went to bed at ten then woke up at 1 and that was us for the rest of the nite wide awake/Made it to brekkie for 6.30am haha,must be a first!We ate loads and decided we needed to snooze it off.Got a couple of hours kip after that then attempted to go sight seeing.We made it to the top of the road and then after having a wee battle with the map in heat that was melting us we decided we were not ready for all that caper just yet and went and sat in a wee cafe with a cold drink then went to our pool and dangled our feet.much better idea.We then decided to brave bangkok again and headed to the grand palace only to be told no entry after two o clock and the nice gut then taught us how to say hello and thankyou in thai and grabbed us a tuck tuck driver to take us to the big gold buddha and tourist information cos he felt we would benefit from their help.Chauffer driven arond for the lastfew hours with the guy waiting on us in each place for quite lenghthy periods of time and only cost a couple of quid!The outcome of paying tourist info a visit is we have now booked our next three weeks travelling starting with leaving bangkok on fri and heading to chaing mai by train.One night then going elephant trekking and visiting the hill tribes for 3 days.Looks amazing then we will stay a furthe 3 nites bk in chaing mai bfore heading back to bangkok where we get off the train and onto a bus which will take us to Cambodia where we will be for about a week then bus to ho chi minh,vietnam.We will then possibly fly back to bangkok and head to the islands spending a longer time there than we had initially planned.After speaking to the very patient lady in tourist info our original route we had planned to take seemed a lot more full on than we thought we should be doing at this point,involving three days travelling on a boat staying over night on the land beside the mekong river in Laos where things are very basic and then a flight to north vietnam costing far more money than we wished to spend.The 3 of us just looked at each other in fear and said eh no maybe not and had a re think.So thats us sorted.Heading to khao san road tonite to do a spot of shopping at the market and get a bite to eat.Hopefully the food we eat will be better than last nites,we dont have a clue wot was on our plate haha.Realise if we had made the decision to turn right outside our hotel places were a lot nicer down that way oops! Tommorow we r going to the floating market early doors then for a Thai massage.We will try again for the Grand Palace then China town at nite.Pheew.This heat is going to take a bit of getting used to but have been told it is cooler in the North still 26 27 tho.Here it is about 35 36.Hope u r all good an will be in touch soon.Love from me.xxxxx

MFA TALK/HAIRCUTS

Belated post.

In November, I spent two days in the Master of Fine Art department at Duncan of Jordanstone, talking with students about my practice since leaving Art School. The MFA studio soon became a makeshift hair salon, with informal tutorials taking place as students had their locks trimmed! In particular, I spoke about my involvement with The Nine Trades Project and the realities of conducting a collaborative project in a hair salon. Students were very interested in the many issues a practicing artist deals with i.e. money, rejected proposals, balancing work and home life to name a few. It was not all bad news of course, as I was able to talk about how my practice has developed through The Nine Trades and what a great opportunity it has been to meet new people both within the local art environment and beyond.

REALLY SERIOUS BARBER'S CHAIR