Art/Activist, Curator and Wyddershins Project Leader
Education – Beckenham and Penge Grammar School (Thanks to Harvey Sklair Art Teacher ) Chelsea School of Art, Canterbury Christ Church University
Sussex University, Camberwell School of Art UAL (MA’s in The Arts and Education and Fine Art)
Career – Too many jobs to mention + Hospital Orderly New Zealand, Primary School Teacher and Senior Lecturer Visual Arts and Culture CCCU.
Recent Stuff – Artist in Residence Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Wyddershins Project, Community celebration of a Neolithic Longbarrow – Julliberrrie, Downs Chilham, White Horse Mummers Performances, Exhibitions – Rochester Art Gallery, Canterbury Festival, LV21 Chatham Historic Dockyard, WHOOS HOO project.
Presentation: Lots of Stuff – Multiple Conversations in an Arts Practice
A session thinking about the dimensions of conversation that are important within my creative practice provided an unfinished and incomplete list of 12 contexts.
The first being: Conversations with Materials
The last (where I stopped) being: Conversations with Magic and Enchantment.
A middle-ish one was: Conversations with a viewer or viewers (real and imagined)
Far from exhaustive or completely thought through, this list-making underlined to me the manner in which my creative practice occurs, exists and takes form in dialogic (conversational) spaces. Spaces between myself and another. And in this, my practice can be understood, at least in part, as the result of multiple conversations (speaking and listening). The result is not a ‘how to do it’ or even a ‘how I did it’ but a thought experiment that I hope can stimulate further KArtsCon conversations.
Areas to be considered (with pictures) are conversations with:
materials, traditions, orthodoxy (and unorthodoxy), audiences, funders and facilitators, art works and the canons (value statements) of art, and conversations with myself, ghosts and time, the sacred and the profane, the past, the future, the unknown and mystery
