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In this second excerpt from Judith Stewart’s essay she refers to our three children using their initials: Whether it is possible to think of H and M as collaborators in this process depends on how one wants to define collaboration. […]

The other day I finally managed to see “Clothes to Die For”, the excellent, harrowing BBC2 documentary about the disastrous collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Bangladesh, which caused the death of 1,138 workers. I have been […]

There’s nothing like an enforced stoppage to halt the flow of creative writing and thus the onset of laziness with keeping one’s blog up to date! But I’m back finally and A-N has an updated, much-awaited sparkly new website to […]

It’s now nearly a year since my last mentoring session and this will be my third blog post about the process. When I applied for a-n mentoring funding I was clear that I expected the process to cover a period […]

This morning seems a good time to start packing for my trip. Why is it when everything is out of the suitcase it looks impossible for it all to fit in? Although magically it does…I need this evening to finish […]

Having returned to my practice after lengthy stint away I find myself returning to the theme of containment. Although as I consider what containment is, particularly in the context of this blog, I find that there are several distinct strands […]

  Jars of Clay: The Body as a Container Perhaps my biggest creative interests thus far has been the notion of body as a container, an idea that has been in-part inspired by my training as an art therapist, though […]

I have started learning to speak Mandarin.  I’m really excited about it.  In fact I’m pretty excited about everything right now.  On Thursday last week the stress turned to excitement and I felt that great achievement/when a plan comes together/isn’t […]

After Christmas Judith showed us a first draft of her essay. Here’s an excerpt: Our cultural experience of images of childhood make us (particularly women) wary. How do we avoid the appearance, as well as the actuality, of sentimentality? Mary […]

I love the sun more than most and am certainly trying to enjoy it while it lasts. With a busy summer ahead, including; moving my studio within Rogue Artists’ Studios this week (I will now be located on the 4th […]

Re-reading some more of the Artistic Research course texts, or perhaps reading them in a (literally physically) different context has been surprisingly rewarding.  Sometimes it can take a really long time for me to ‘get’ something, or to reach a […]