Join Dwell Time on the Penistone Line for a unique workshop in poetry and drawing on train tickets. Get onboard the 10:12 – 11:28 Huddersfield to Sheffield and/or 11:35 – 12:50 Sheffield to Huddersfield trains at any station to join […]
It has been a good year for me culminating in the Artcore Winter Narratives Arts Council supported residency in Vadodara, India (blog – artcoregallery.org.uk > artist residency > Winter Narratives > Dr Wright). I arrived home on the 21st of […]
Exploring the audio that is my practice, this blog delves into the thinking behind the works to encourage dialogue whilst helping me unravel my thoughts.
The artist and co-director of Salford-based Paradise Works discusses her highlights of the last year including the ‘enormous confidence boost’ of being announced recipient of the Clore Visual Arts Fellowship, supported by a-n.
Conversation Diagrams
I was at a lecture in Leeds today about older people’s mental health and alcohol misuse (NHS Leeds & York Partnership / Forward Leeds). One of the main risk factors to alcohol misuse is social isolation: Lack of human contact […]
Dwell Time interviewed Doug Dennison and Logan Bonham Smith of Unmasked Mental Health: https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/2019/12/29/dwell-time-interview-with-doug-dennison-and-logan-bonham-smith-unmasked-mental-health/ (Content Warning: Discussions about suicide and child death) https://unmaskedmentalhealth.co.uk/ Their app is designed to get people talking, with the option of anonymity, to provide peer support […]
How the a-n Artist Bursary made a difference for the prospective development of the artist
LEO: A-N Bursary 2019 – Research and Development
I’m now finalising my report on my bursary activity – and it feels quite lop-sided. There are some really positive results and achievements, and some disappointing dead-ends. The positive side is definitely the work of bringing together practitioners involved in […]
Do other artists find themselves obsessing over small things? I’ve been away from the studio for family and the festivities, so these things are milling around in my head, in my notebook, even in the occasional song lyric. I’ve been […]
Evening folks. I’m new here – it’s all a bit different to the old Artist’s Newsletter I used to get at Smiths.
The ‘Body Wisdom Discoveries’ workshop I held in Accra in August 2019 involved empathetic touch, body scanning, movement from a body part that ‘called for the attention of the participants,’ drawing, writing and witness feedback. Below are some testimonials from […]
I then went from California to Ghana to learn the Kpanlogo Dance, of the Ga tribe in Accra. This dance is known to be “the dance of the youth,” and originated during the wake of Ghana’s Independence in 1957 as […]
My project began with the start of the Tamalpa L2 Training course in Embodied Leadership at the Tamalpa Institute in California. Arriving at Mountain Home Studio (the training course location in Marin County) at the end of July 2019 felt […]
I completed my Level 1 Tamalpa Training in movement based expressive arts therapy in March 2018 and continued to explore the Tamalpa Life Art Process through the development of a new body of work called Body Arcana. I applied for […]
once upon a time there was a boy, he lived in a house with a dog and a cat. one day the dog came home and announced she was running away to the circus. the cat at this news was […]
London-based French artist Paul Maheke uses performance, installation, video, and sound to explore the potential of the body as an archive in order to address how history, memory and identity are formed and constituted. Here he reflects on his personal highlights from the last 12 months, including being nominated for the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize.
So here we are, possibly my favourite day of the year, Boxing Day! I have some time to myself. I have begun sifting and sorting some of the sounds recorded on various devices. At the moment this is just a […]
Marie-Anne McQuay discusses ‘a year like no other’ in which, on sabbatical from her role at Bluecoat and as Exhibition Director for Wales in Venice, she guest-curated Sean Edwards’ solo presentation at the Venice Biennale.
