I’ve had a very rich and busy September. Working with groups and individuals in Liverpool with Up Projects, in Somerset with Hauser and Wirth and Spike Island, in Bath with Forest of Imagination, some really rich time in Portsmouth, beginning a ‘walking and talking’ mentoring process with artist Hannah Mae Buckingham. I’ve also started anContinue reading “How do I notice birds?”
Tag Archives: Neurodivergence
A Rivery Mind / Thinking with Bridges
My work ‘out there’ (outside of my home and studio) now quietens for the Summer. I have some lovely one day events and CPD sessions I’m facilitating in August, but apart from that, life can slow down for a bit. When I am doing my work with organisations and communities I need to interpret myContinue reading “A Rivery Mind / Thinking with Bridges”
Queer River – five years on
I set up Queer River five years ago in 2020, as we emerged from lockdown, as a way to walk, talk and make with my local river, the Hampshire Avon, which begins its journey near my home in the Vale of Pewsey in mid Wiltshire. The original intention was to pay attention to the riverContinue reading “Queer River – five years on”
New Forest Reflections
I’ve written a couple of posts on my time with Spud in the New Forest this Spring, once before I started my residency, and again after a week spent there in March. But nothing since setting up my installation Neuro/Queering Nature. So this post fills in those gaps, and shares the exhibition with those ofContinue reading “New Forest Reflections”
Sodden
It’s been a while since I’ve been on a Queer River walk, although like the river itself, my Queer Rver research doesn’t stick within the boundaries that I originally used to define it. Instead they evolve as the work progresses, with the words that I use to describe it changing to fit with what I’veContinue reading “Sodden”
Collecting to Connect
On Twitter recently Kate Smith (@KateEYT) posted a photo of some collections that she had helped her son, who is autistic, put together. I was touched by the way that she valued and supported his way of experiencing the world, and it reminded me of my own childhood collections, and the way that collecting developedContinue reading “Collecting to Connect”
Shedding Skin
Here are some photographs that I took last summer using algae and plants from my pond. These followed on from the chalk and water experiments that I’ve written about previously. I’m looking at these images again as I explore masking and neurodivergence (see Masking a recent post on my artist’s blog), and start to planContinue reading “Shedding Skin”
Queer River 