The blog provides an insight into my initial exploration of Stoke-on-Trent, my responses to the environment and sense of place. The following Chapter of the blog sees the work that was initiated within the two weeks residency, come to some form of resolution.
On and off research from 2016- onwards.
Egg. Evolution. Circle
Original cell
I propose that performance art not only can be a method or approach to conducting research but as a research paradigm, provides a non-captive, free-flowing, experiential and immaterial research paradigm where beliefs systems are between vapour – liquid – vapour. The […]
Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not
My first blog ‘Keeping It Together’ came to a natural end when I moved in to my studio. ‘Keeping It Going’ picks up where that left off. Will I be able to maintain a blog at the same time as […]
Re-Wilding Practice: Art and Environmental Sustainability
The increasingly intense exploration of drawing, and the threads between words, sounds, music, lines…
Mixed media paintings using collage and palette-knife-applied acrylics
The story of starting again
Every month I enter the Boldbrush Art Contest. This blog shows my entries and the links to vote.
Thank you in advance for voting, each one makes such a difference :)
A blog which started in 2016 with a-n professional development bursary activity and has expanded from there.
How on earth to continue a practice with no income??? Dealing with financial abuse and neglect.
The context of the project emerges almost by chance and from the unconscious. As a child, I would find various objects on the street, bring them to life, and create stories for them through interaction. In this project, I revive […]
from feeling stationary and isolated – an experimental research project considering isolation through adulthood play.
Two jobs available, based in Manchester and in London
In this blog I will be documenting the process of making a short film with the assistance and expertise of film maker Henrietta Thomas. I have a collection of vintage music boxes and my aim is to make a film […]
Explore a curated collection of limited prints by Joyce Treasure rooted in anti-colonial resilience, reclamation, and storytelling. Each piece is an invitation to engage with narratives celebrating strength, freedom, and empowerment
Kenn Gordon has been around for quite a number of years as a gigging musician, luthier and author. Kenn started out on his long musical career way back in 1968 with his first paid gig. Around the same period he […]
Charting the progress of my practice since 2007 – a-n’s longest running blog!
Notes from a Residency at Brisons Veor. November 2024
I’m currently in my second year of a practice-led, full-time Drawing Research PhD at Leeds Beckett University, where I am looking at how drawing can help us to understand loss. In my search for evidence of loss, I’ve been drawing empty chairs and spaces in care homes.
The art project will focus on my years spent in Bulgaria. There, I found a strong connection with nature, met friends for life, learned how to be a foreigner, and appreciated family and national traditions, customs, art and culture. More than thirty apart, I feel the same warmnes
Research project funded by the Edward James Foundation (West Dean College of Arts & Conservation) walking-with texts and imagery from the archive to explore the more than industrial values of forests towards aesthetic, imaginal, and relational values.
Here I’m reflecting on the new training course I’ve developed about how to share art for wellbeing with other people, and five words I see as building blocks to do just that
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