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Symposium

MAC Birmingham – Acts of Creation: on Art & Motherhood

 

It meant a lot to be invited, as one of six panelists in this symposium, and to present and show work about my personal experience of baby loss and stillbirth.  

Programmed by Hettie Judah, Melanie Stidolph and Sally Butcher, it formed part of the wider programme of public events accompanying the major Hayward touring exhibition,  Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, curated by Hettie Judah.

This recorded symposium,  addressed experiences of (m)otherhood by the panelists – Melanie Stidolph, Sally Butcher, Jess Fairbrother, Yvonne including –  struggling to conceive, infertility, being childless not by choice, maternal grief and caring for chronically ill children.  You can hear/watch the keynote by Elina Brotherus and panel presentations by myself, Sally Butcher, Jess Fairbrother, Sofie Layton, Yvonne John and Melanie Stidolph.  There were also film screenings and q&a with El Morgan, Trish Morrissey, Holly Slingsby.  The recording is available to view until 31 October. 

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Nordic Summer University Research Circle, Denmark

more than one path to follow

29 August – 4 November

An amazing week of presentations and workshops that marked the end of a 3-year cycle.  I was fortunate to join Artistic Research, Circle 7,  in Helsinki in February, with a weekend of workshops and presentations.  (see previous news item). It was amazingly rich and nourishing to mix with and have conversations with members of the other Research Circles during this week, as well as present my latest work and research.

I took my stone – chosen or did it choose me – from the Garw Valley in Sth Wales to Logumkloster and left it there.  I didn’t know I was going to do that. A stream, that ran in the grounds of the place we were all staying at, beckoned.  So my stone, full of secrets that I had told it and it told me, began its onward journey.  I wish you all the best stone. Onward journey

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NSU Research Circle, Southern Jutland, Denmark 29/7 – 5/8

Thrilled to be invited back, as one of 135 participants, to NSU Summer Session taking place in Løgumkloster, Denmark from July 29 to August 5 2024.  I will be presenting work and leading a workshop ‘Set in Stone’.

The Study Circles meet twice a year and explore diverse topics within the arts and humanities, natural and social sciences and provide a cross-disciplinary forum for debating topics and contributing to the initiation of new research.
During one week in the summer all of the circles hold their symposia at a shared location, this time Logumkloster, which offers additional possibilities for cross-fertilisation, to share and be in dialogue with participants research.

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Nordic Summer University Research Circle, Finland

22 – 25 Feb 2024.

Three days with Circle 7 at NSU, Helsinki – talking and thinking about transformative and emancipatory processes in artistic research.  I was invited to share my personal experience of arts practice as an agent for change, and the different ways we find to process universal experiences. A big thank you to the co-ordinators and participants who made this such a wonderful and rich experience.  Looking forward to the next one!

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Essay

Notes on another kind of suspension, by Lizzie Lloyd

Following months of meeting and talking together, as I made work that emerged from a small rectangle of earth in the Garw Valley, South Wales.  An essay by Lizzie Lloyd – artist, writer and researcher, which you can read here. Notes-on-another-kind-of-suspension

Huge thanks to Lizzie.. for all that listening and digging with me.

 

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Publication

Visual diaries

I began a visual diary to document my Arts Council funded project, but it soon became much more that. These pages, which I am still continuing, trace the unfolding of an embodied practice and the unexpected discoveries that emerge when materials and process take the lead.

1 Oct ’21 – Apr ’22 PDF

2 May – Oct ’22 PDF

3 Nov ’22 – March ’23 PDF

4 Jul ’23 – Jun’24 PDF

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What it is to be There

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I’m so grateful to the Brigstow Institute, for their support for this project, and enabling me to work so closely with Ass. Professor Lesel Dawson (University of Bristol) and Julian Brigstocke (Cardiff University).  Being in the valley and talking with them both about experiences that were way in my past and fresh in the moment was so valuable. Our journey is all here – What it is to be there

Please see list of resources at the end of the document that offer support following the death of a child.

 

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Collaboration

‘Feeling our way’ with Jen Hawthorn

Spent a wonderful day, in the Garage feeling our way with clay.  Jen Hawthorn is a ceramic artist whose work is both performative and object orientated.

I wanted to work with Jen because she is also working intuitively with clay,  exploring the relationship between herself and this active and generative material. I wanted to learn from someone experienced in ceramics and performative work to ‘let go’ some more.

 

 

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Presentation

UNESCO-BRIDGES Launch: The E(e)arth

Well – that was exciting and a privilege to be a part of.  Very honoured to be asked to talk – alongside a member of the Yogi from Columbia and a team from game research at University of South Wales.

Congratulations to USW for the launch of the new Hub at USW – they join the UNESCO network of Hubs around the world.

Thank you to Dr. Luci Attalia (Director, Unesco-Bridges UK) and Professor Louise Steel (Associate Director, Unesco-Bridges UK) for inviting me.

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Workshop

Get down and dirty

13th Oct:  ‘Get down and dirty’ – a workshop I led at The Garage, for researchers and academics to experience thinking with the body and what that might mean. Organized with Professor Louise Steel & Associate Professor Lesel Dawson, to brainstorm ways we could collaborate on a future funded project.

Thanks to Jude Allen of https://soilvoices.org, one of the participants of the workshop, for making this video .


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Residency

Garw Valley, South Wales

 

 

23 – 30 July:  Residency at Garw Valley, South Wales.

Invited artists:  Gina Baum (ceramicist),  Prerna Chandiramani (print maker)  We spent a week absorbing the changes and what it is to be there, sharing experiences, stories, practices.

We found wild clay in a nearby farm and processed it; made land art; recorded our walking together on lino; collected evidence of exchange. Afterwards we spent a week in the Garage thinking about the residency, working with the clay and printing.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

 

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Collaboration

Bringing them to life

 

LIMB O:

The Arts Council England funding has enabled me to work with some great artists and different practices to develop my work and ways of thinking.  I’ve been spending studio time with Matteo Amadio & Tommy Cha – and this month we brought ‘them’ to life.

Such a thrill.. to walk in the room, stir the air and hear what they had to say.

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Funding Award

Develop Your Creative Practice ACE

Applicant Project Name:What it is to be there

Like all of us, I get many rejections.. so to receive this funding was so thrilling – to get awarded – to have my ideas for the next 8 months rubber-stamped – to have a ring-fenced piece of time to just let go and see what happens.  VERY SPECIAL

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