Category: Projects
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Places & Traces of Charnwood Forest
Places & Traces is a creative landscape history project looking at how local people experience and feel about the Charnwood Forest area. Over the next year I’m hosting creative exploratory walks and wild workshops where we will explore what makes this area so special to us personally. I’m collecting community stories and experiences of this…
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Cultures of Care Film Launch
I’ve got a lovely new film to share about my Cultures of Care project. I wanted to create a film which captured slowness, care and paying attention that inform my project, rather than focussing on artworks or techniques. This film was made with Richard Foot and I think he’s done a great job of capturing…
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Reflective Practice: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 41
I find being reflective in my creative work incredibly useful and have done for many years. In this essay / podcast I share how I came to reflective writing or journalling and some of the other ways I am reflective about my work with others. This was part of my Cultures of Care Group in…
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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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Made in the Middle
I’m helping Craftspace promote their wonderful exhibition opportunity for Made in the Middle 2025. I just looked up when it was that I took part in this show with my Interlace collaboration. I’m shocked to see it was 2016! That seems so long ago now. But I have nothing but good memories from that project.…
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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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Art-Science project installed in The James Hutton Institute
A recent McFarland & Singer project with The James Hutton Institute is now complete. I’ve been working with Gillian McFarland on this project for a couple of years and the artwork has been delivered to the Hutton Institute. Read more on the McFarland & Singer website. Ruth & Gillian have been collaborating with Dr Isabelle Colas at…
