Category: Ruth Singer
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Front Garden Fragments
At the moment I’ve got a new work on display in my Land Shapes exhibition, including a group of pieces exploring the loss of front gardens from our urban landscape. Land Shapes also includes new work about front gardens by Mandeep Dhadialla, a project with Karen Logan and other land-based work by me, made during…
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Worn Stories for Refugee Week
To mark Refugee Week, I’m sharing a project from last summer where Mandeep Dhadialla and I worked with a wonderful group to create a large hand-bound book of textile-inspired artworks. I’ve just had new images taken of the book and it has now been returned to the British Red Cross in Leicester who we worked…
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Ordering your thoughts
Part of my reflective practice is journalling or writing loads of ideas down so they don’t escape me. I am always thinking about new projects when I should be working on existing projects or my thoughts wander into exciting new directions when I really should be going to sleep. I journal in unexpected places too,…
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Emotional Landscapes
Places & Traces is part of my Cultures of Care project. Part of Cultures of Care is care of nature and landscape, place and belonging. I’ve been working for a year now with a wellness in nature group and wanted to build on what I’ve learned in that residency to create something more focussed on…
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When public engagement is not very engaging
This morning I gave up two hours to go to a nature recovery strategy residents consultation workshop. I left feeling deeply frustrated by the lack of clarity on the strategy and what input we could have and by the poor way it was run. It’s reminded me just how valuable public engagement skills are and…
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Creating Together
In the latest episode of my podcast Making Meaning, I talked about co-creation, which I define as making artworks with others. I’ve put together a page of some of the highlights of my co-creation work too. It really is an important part of my practice, and that’s not changing this year – I have several…
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Co-creation: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 42
In my nearly 20 years of creative work, I’ve developed a real passion for creating artwork with the input of others, either in group making or through contributions of stories. In this blog / podcast I’m sharing my piece of reflective writing that I share first in my Cultures of Care Group in June 2024.…
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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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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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