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  • Walkings New Movements

    Walkings New Movements Conference 1-3 November 2019 University of Plymouth Words that landed like arrows in slow motion leading, pointing, pulling, pushing, prodding, provoking 1. Simon Bradly and Ursula Troche Friday evening displaced displaced objects, displaced object, the special found object of sheep wool reborn in new places, next times reborn through the telling in […]

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  • Chichester Art Trail 2019 with Drink&Draw

    Artworks will available for viewing, discussion and buying at the Chichester Art Trail, along with visual research, sketchbooks, works-in-progress and the many found objects of inspiration I collect from the Walks. 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th May (I’m out teaching afternoon of the 12th, but the work will be there to view) The  venue […]

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  • The Art of Enquiry in Nature: 9th March 2019

    BLOG: THE ART OF ENQUIRY IN NATURE revealing and unfolding 9th March 2019 Following international women’s day, we marched the first steep climb and we all felt feisty. The wind was high, 50mph, thrusting the leafless March trees into one another with clangs and squeaks. Some participants didn’t want to walk at the fast pace, […]

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  • The Insistence of Drawing – Prof Anita Taylor

    Prof Anita Taylor Feb 2019 SitSelect, Centre for Science & Art, Stroud THE INSISTENCE OF DRAWING It took three hours driving, a day after the big snow halt on the M4 and A34, with relative ease. The centre is the old (Gloucestershire) art college with herringbone wooden floor tiles, high ceilings, wide and shallow stairs. […]

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  • Drawing: what for?

    I’m thinking about drawing and the drawing process that i use of observing something, as I walk my daily walk, what comes to me is that drawing is a way to get to what is hidden, a way to get to know what is not knowable by using a different language. it’s a way for […]

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  • Cambridge Sustainability Residency – research

    In April I was selected to take part in the Cambridge Sustainability Residency 2016. The theme of the residency was insulation and growth in relation to sustainability. My proposal was to consider the psychological aspects affecting the responsibility (ie the ability to respond) to the specific issues on sustainability that I experience in the context […]

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  • Sense of place

    I’ve just listened to Radio 4 Start The Week for today (29 December 2014) and to Victoria Crowe, artist, who in talking about her significant place described beech trees and her relationship to the landscape: “beech trees which describe the way the wind blows, they describe the prevailing wind by the very form of them…with […]