Category: Cultures of Care
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Textiles and Care: Making Meaning podcast Episode 46
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Series Five of Making Meaning is here. A lot of this series will be focussing on textiles, although there will be some other stories, conversations and solo episodes coming up too. This week I am starting by sharing two of my talks from the Cultures of Care Group from the end of 2024. Cultures of…
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Map Making
Places and Traces project is developing quickly now. Last summer we went on walks and did wild workshops in the woods and orchards, and spent the winter meetings in the local studies library exploring maps and documents. Over the next few months we are working with artist Hannah Moreton to create a large map sharing…
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Mapping our personal histories
Places & Traces project has moved indoors after a summer of walks and wild workshops. We are now looking at maps and documents to plan our own tactile map of emotional histories of Charnwood Forest. The final two meetings of this year are in Loughborough library where we are looking at historical maps and talking…
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Exhibition: For Your Convenience
For Your Convenience : Exploring Convenience Culture through an Artistic Lens. 27th November – 13th December 2024. Norman Rea Gallery University of York I’m pleased to be showing a new piece in this exhibition. Make Gardens Green Again was part of my Land Shapes exhibition in my garden studio earlier this year. It is part…
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Places and Traces of the Landscape
My Charnwood local history and landscape project moves indoors this month In October we had the last of the walks and wild workshops outside for Places & Traces. We took a short ramble along the bridleway, the old road, on the very edge of Loughborough. It’s one of my favourite places to walk and it…
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Productivity and Creative Practice: Making Meaning podcast Episode 44
This blog and podcast are again from my Cultures of Care Group and in a change to the usual, the podcast includes the group discussion as well as my talk, which is my reflections on productivity as an artist and what that means to me now as a research-based artist more than a maker of…
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Marks from the land
A creative nature session using berries, plants and soil to make maps for our emotional histories map Places and Traces is about exploring connections to the landscape we live in. It’s a community project taking place in Charnwood, Leicestershire. It’s part of my Cultures of Care project and is supported by Charnwood Geopark. Last month…
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Nature and Care: Making Meaning podcast Episode 43
My Cultures of Care project wasn’t intentionally all about nature and landscape connection, yet that is what a lot of it has turned out to be. This podcast episode, and the essay below, is my exploration of how nature, outdoors and landscape in its widest sense have influenced my work. I talk about projects on…
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Walking the earth
Reflections from Places & Traces August walk Places and Traces is about exploring connections to the landscape we live in. In early August the project took to the footpaths near Woodhouse Eaves in the heart of Charnwood Forest. I lead a short walk through village edges, fields and farm tracks with the invitation to think…
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Creative Nature
Exploring land and nature-based projects for Cultures of Care I missed July’s Cultures of Care Group. I had to cancel because I had covid and had no energy for sharing my reflections on my care projects at the time. I’m better now, luckily, and looking forward to connecting again with a wonderful, supportive and engaged…
Ruth Singer 