Category: research
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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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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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Words About Women
Way back in 2022, as I was preparing the final version of Criminal Quilts exhibition for Llantarnam Grange, I devised a collaborative project to mark the end of over 10 years working with the stories of women in the criminal justice system in the 19th century. The idea was to create a collaborative artwork with…
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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…
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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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Making Meaning Journal
I’m excited to announce that Making Meaning Journal is coming soon! For years I’ve wanted to create a publication, a modest magazine-style place to share some of my writing and more of my images of my work/ I love writing for my website, for my Maker Membership and for the Textile Study Space but I…
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Lines and Places
Landscape history and artist practice After a hedge-hiatus early this year for my Blossom & Thorn project, I’m back to my previous landscape project. I’m slowly walking all of the paths in a 10 square mile-ish area near my home and looking for interesting things like old boundaries, ancient woodlands, good hedges, ridge and furrow…
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Blossom and Thorn Research
Over the last month I’ve invited people local to the National Forest Way to look at hedges and share their findings for my Blossom & Thorn project. This is part of the research for an artwork I am making for Timber Festival in July which tells stories about the hedges alongside the National Forest Way.…
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