Category: Cultures of Care
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Research as a care practice: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 40
This new podcast episode, the start of series four, is a recording of my first Cultures of Care Group talks. For each CoC Group I write an essay to share on an aspect of care in creative practice. In April 2024, I chose to talk about research as a creative care practice. You can read…
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Maker Membership Online Exhibition
Part of my Maker Membership online community is a creative theme for members to follow if they wish, usually related to my current creative work. The theme for late 2023 was damage, and I invited members to create new work and share it in this online exhibition. This is the brief I set: Research and investigate…
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Maker Membership Supported Spaces
As part of my Cultures of Care project, I have a some six-month Maker Membership places (worth £150) available for women in the UK who have financial or health challenges in accessing professional development / building their creative practice or are in a group / demographic which is under-represented in the creative sector (global majority or ethnic…
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Cultures of Care Group
What is Cultures of Care Group? This online monthly session is a space for reflection, thinking and conversation about care in creative practice. Why is this happening? It’s part of my ongoing Cultures of Care project, exploring themes of care in my work. The Cultures of Care Group is a free session once a month…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 31 Cultures of Care
Making Meaning podcast by Ruth Singer with Kate Unwin
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Cultures of Care talk
Cultures of Care is my new major project. Over the next couple of years I will be looking at under-explored stories of care of people, places, objects. I’m interested in how artist activities and creative practice contributes to a culture of care. Cultures of Care is an umbrella or basket for several different, related activities …
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Sharing Worn Stories
This weekend is re/action festival in Leicester city centre, where you can see our recent community project artwork, Worn Stories. Over the last few months, me and Mandeep Dhadialla have been working with a group of lovely people who are from sanctuary-seeking backgrounds and are supported by the Red Cross in Leicester. The completed art…
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Textile Traces Workshop
Over the weekend I ran my first in-person workshop in my garden studio! It’s was a bit of a squeeze with the exhibition on at the same time and lots of materials but we had a great time. The workshop was a chance to try some of the techniques I used for recording family textiles…
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Cultures of Care online talk & workshop
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I’ve had such a lot of interest over the last couple of months about my new Cultures of Care project – it’s been really heartwarming to hear from people about how this subject resonates. There’s a lot going on with the project already including a community project artist residency, supported spaces in my Maker Membership…
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Community artist residency
On Monday I joined Peace of Green‘s Wellness in Nature group at Belgrave Hall gardens in Leicester. I’m artist in residence with the group over the next year as part of my Cultures of Care project. Once a month I’ll spend a few hours with the group, observing and chatting to people, running activities and…