Research – Queer River

Walking with… Artist Lydia Halcrow

Woman with sandy coloured hair and a navy coat crouches to press paper into the mud on a footpath

I met with Artist Lydia Halcrow in Bradford-on-Avon last week, to take a walk along the Bristol Avon. My first memory of Lydia must be from around 15 years ago, walking and talking together about climate breakdown, our anxieties, and the ways we hoped to address them in our work. Since then our paths haveContinue reading “Walking with… Artist Lydia Halcrow”

Walking with… Artist and Activist Ann-Marie Culhane

A woman with tied-back grey hair in a navy and red raincoat looks closely at lichen on a tree branch, on a very rainy day

Yesterday I made my way through the rain to Taunton in Somerset, to meet Ann-Marie Culhane. We have shared connections and values, and have been talking about meeting for a walk for a number of years. Ann-Marie’s practice draws on permaculture design, and projects are long-term, ‘based on the cycles and patterns found in nature.’Continue reading “Walking with… Artist and Activist Ann-Marie Culhane”

Walking Out

Over the last few months I’ve been parking up and walking out from some of the towns and villages sited along the Bristol Avon and its tributaries, as they run through Wiltshire. Although the Salisbury or Hampshire Avon runs nearest to my home in the Vale of Pewsey, the two watersheds meet only a fewContinue reading “Walking Out”

Noticing Differently: Rivers, Bodies and Beavers

Over the last year or so I developed a PhD proposal and then applied for a studentship to fund my research. The proposal focuses on my Neuroqueer Ecologies research and applies that to human/beaver relationships, in the re-making of rivers, and within the context of climate and biodiversity crises. Put very simply, Neuroqueer Ecologies isContinue reading “Noticing Differently: Rivers, Bodies and Beavers”