Outputs (358)
Protecting transformative optimism in the art classroom: Exploring aspirant art teachers’ shifting ideals (2023)
Thesis
This extended, normative case study was initiated in response to my professional concerns regarding the capacity of student art and design teachers to defend and extend their personal ideals for future classroom practice. Placement in schools, a majo... Read More about Protecting transformative optimism in the art classroom: Exploring aspirant art teachers’ shifting ideals.
Let’s play together (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Throughout 2022-23 Watershed (cultural cinema & creative technology centre) have been working with an architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their building for the Climate Emergency. Watershed leads within its communities with a proud... Read More about Let’s play together.
The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign (2023)
Book Chapter
The Afrikaner rebellion of 1914-1915 is an under-studied but significant event in South Africa’s troubled history. At its core was the struggle for the leadership and direction of an increasingly polarised Afrikaner community, elements of which were... Read More about The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign.
Digital printing technology has had a major impact for the textile designer. Their design process now enables them to create complicated multi-layered digital designs incorporating photographic images and intricate detail. Artwork is no longer restri... Read More about An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes.
The alchemy of metaphor (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In Joan Didion’s biopic ‘The Centre Will Not Hold’ there’s a moment when she speaks of seeing a five year old girl on acid in Haight Ashbury.
‘It was gold,’ she says, sharp-eyed and birdlike.
Didion knew the power of writing to transform... Read More about The alchemy of metaphor.
What is drawing research? (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
This exhibition, curated by the UWE BCU Drawing Research Group, serves as an introduction and testament to the evolving significance of drawing as a cross-disciplinary tool for research, communication and ideation.
We aim to challenge established p... Read More about What is drawing research?.
Cruising the archive: Discovering a queer methodology (2023)
Journal Article
As an artist researcher I am exploring how I orientate my queer body in an archival space. The focus of this article is how my discursive body negotiates archival relations, conflating ‘cruising’ as a method, seeking through intrigue and desire, maki... Read More about Cruising the archive: Discovering a queer methodology.
The Burden of Expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films? (2023)
Book Chapter
Prime time Sunday evening viewing across five weeks of Steve McQueen's penology offered the opportunity to give volume to the silenced, to offer an alternative social historical account of the plurality of the Black British experience, to represent... Read More about The Burden of Expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films?.
The Hyphen is a Dagger (2023)
Physical Artefact
The Hyphen Is a Dagger collaborative publication: Angie Butler, SJFowler, Pat Randle published by Nomad Letterpress.
A distinctive, eccentric, playful work of literature, The Hyphen is a Dagger is a product of a unique collaborative project betwee... Read More about The Hyphen is a Dagger.
Kind Materials Research (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Kind Materials Research innovatively integrates bio-dyeing with laser technology, offering sustainable alternatives to conventional dyeing and finishing. Experimental bio-mordants derived from plant, fungi, and algae sources enhanced the natural dyes... Read More about Kind Materials Research.
Capturing and cultivating craft practices in the UK (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The type of intensive training previously needed for crafts in the printing trade is now redundant, but as craft practices are added biannually to Heritage Craft’s UK Red List of Endangered Crafts, there is a pressing need to preserve skills whilst a... Read More about Capturing and cultivating craft practices in the UK.
Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flood-prone places and people often face conflicting interests that hinder their ability to cope with, and adapt to, wider water security issues. To enhance capacities of these places and people, interdisciplinary researchers (UWE, Bristol) and Acta... Read More about Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK.
SOL-ART Visions (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) technology enables the replacement of conventional building envelope materials with photovoltaics (PVs) that generate electrical energy from sunlight. PVs can be integrated visibly or invisibly into roofs and f... Read More about SOL-ART Visions.
The Long Partition (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Curators Note: Huma Mulji’s proposal consists of nine trompe l’oeil paintings of cassette tapes used by her mother to correspond with her closest female relatives. Each cassette carries an oral epistle, a Derridean “sendoff” pining for a reply, a lon... Read More about The Long Partition.
When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig (2023)
Digital Artefact
When I Dare To Be Powerful Online Talk Series.
When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing questions relating to... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig.
Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In 2020, documentary filmmaker Reece Auguiste and his colleagues speculated that ‘[c]o-creation functions as a utopian idea that may never be fully actualized.’ Co-creation and collaboration are concepts that dissemble the power and control intrinsic... Read More about Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?.
Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
In response to the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, international protests under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement asserted the global inequity of the Black experience. But the Black Lives Matter movement was formed much earlier than... Read More about Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard.
When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary (2023)
Digital Artefact
When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series.
When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary.
Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
In reference to one of the first ground-breaking exhibitions in the 1970s about the then still new medium of artists’ books—"Book as Artwork 1960/72”, held in 1972 at Nigel Greenwood Inc. in London and curated by Italian critic Germano Celant with ga... Read More about Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022).