Tag: Research

Publication

(M)Other Matters: an exploration of disenfranchised grief, stillbirth and maternal identity through an embodied practice

Post author By Helen
Post date 30 October 2025

Position paper, published in 2025, can be read – here.

Studies in the Maternal, Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal.Volume 15, Issue 1 2025

Tags adoption, grief and creativity, maternal subjectivity, publication, Research, stillbirth

Presentation

NSU, Research Circle, Denmark 29/8-4/9 2025

Post author By Helen
Post date 2 September 2024

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 full of rich and nourishing conversations with members of the other Research Circles as well as an opportunity to 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. There was 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

Logumkloster, Denmark. 5 hours outside Copenhagen by train..

nourishing week full of conversations and inspiration.

my stone - full of secrets. Garw Valley South Wales to Logumkloster, Denmark

Tags inspiration, journalling, journeying, new roads, practice-led, Research, workshops

Presentation

NSU Research Circle, Finland 22-25 Feb 2024

Post author By Helen
Post date 12 March 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.

Tags International research, Presentation, Research