Category: My work
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Showing the Unseen
Sharing some of my work about hidden stories of care at Cultures of Care Gathering 19-20 July Usually I work towards exhibitions all the time, with a known location and display arrangement in a museum, art gallery or even library, corridor or empty shop. For various reasons, my Cultures of Care project hasn’t culminated in…
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Cultures of Care Gathering full programme
A weekend of creativity, curiosity and care in the Leicestershire countryside, 19-20th July. I’m excited to share the full programme of lovely talks, workshops, discussions, presentations and other things for my Cultures of Care Gathering weekend. This special weekend is the place to connect with me and the other artists I’ve worked with on this…
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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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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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Mary Linwood and Me: Making Meaning podcast Episode 45
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This short episode is a brief introduction to my research project about 18th century embroidery artist Mary Linwood. The episode includes a very short history about her, and then details of the community projects I’m running over the next few months, that you can take part in too.
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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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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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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…
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Hidden Histories online talk for Embroiderers Guild
On Thursday 9th November I’m giving a talk about my work for the UK Embroiderers Guild. Ruth Singer’s work is all about illuminating stories and histories that we might not otherwise notice, from Victorian women criminals to personal and emotional stories of loss, via museum collections and nature connection. Ruth loves sharing these stories through…