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 […]
Drawings
Women artists full moon walks – June 2019 – Rose Moon
Women Artists Moonwalk starting 5.45am Monday 17th June 2019 Walk: from home, back across the paddock in front of the house, along the road, then up through the beech lined footpath towards the crossroads at North Lodge. Up the hill road towards Forestside on the parallel path in the woods, then steeply up into Nore […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
Dear Elephant in the Room,
I just wanted to write, to you, to introduce myself and to say that I know that you are here. I have sensed you on the periphery of my place and you should know that I am learning how to see through your veils. Through our veils. A part of my mind colludes to keep […]
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 […]
Exhibition review – Eva & Franco Mattes. Abuse Standards Violations
Exhibition Review Eva and Franco Mattes Abuse Standards Violations at Carroll/Fletcher, Eastcastle Street, London 10 June to 27 August 2016 by Tiffany Robinson The exhibition comprises a series of installations across three rooms interconnected by wire cables suspended above head height in a wire mesh. Focusing on the first room my initial impression of Dark […]
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 […]