Outputs (18)

Illustration and heritage: Sharing histories to draw out futures' (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

My proposal for Illustration and Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw out futures symposium
builds on my ongoing exploration into recording man-made technologies and architectural structures within the landscape.
I will discuss how my artistic prac... Read More about Illustration and heritage: Sharing histories to draw out futures'.

Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping (2024)
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Set within an eco-feminist praxis of matter, fluidity, care and porousity, this paper considers how brackish waters, as slow sites of exchange, offer new ways of thinking about methodological ‘slow attention’ in critical photographic landscape practi... Read More about Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping.

What is drawing research? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A poster presentation at Leeds School of Arts conference, Drawing Articulations.
Our poster outlined our current research project, The Handbook of Drawing Research.

An ongoing collaborative project with a poet and a printer/publisher (2024)
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To share the development of a collaborative relationship – promote an inclusive method of making work that usually has a particular hierarchy of roles, tasks and outcomes.

A short descriptive history of the Printed Poetry Project, a collaboration... Read More about An ongoing collaborative project with a poet and a printer/publisher.

Writing Joyishly (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Workshop for the Association for Art History Conference 2024
University of Bristol, 3-5 April 2024

Session Convenors: Rebecca Bell, UWE Bristol; Clare Johnson, UWE Bristol; Rachael Miles, UWE Bristol; Jenny Rintoul, UWE Bristol; Joanne Lee, Sheff... Read More about Writing Joyishly.

A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation (2024)
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This audio-visual presentation recontextualizes postmodern ‘punk’ feminist writer Kathy Acker’s essay ‘Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body’ (1993) as a critical experimental work of narrative autoethnography. It will be proposed that... Read More about A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation.

Space to think critically: Pedagogies of Joy and Critical & Contextual Studies (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Critical and Contextual Studies (CCS) alludes to a curricula space commonly associated with writing, ‘theory’ and critical thinking in the Art School. Models of CCS differ from institution to institution; while some appear isolated from the studio, o... Read More about Space to think critically: Pedagogies of Joy and Critical & Contextual Studies.

Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
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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?.

Writing practices, socialisation and subject cultures: Visual culture pedagogies (2023)
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The social and historical construction of Visual Culture is entangled in a false theory/practice binary that presents writing as cerebral and formulaic. Through this construction, writing is often conflated with an essay assessment and a transmission... Read More about Writing practices, socialisation and subject cultures: Visual culture pedagogies.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference (2023)
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Centred on voice as a lens through which we conceive of a social alterity that undermines current ideological dominance, 'When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference' would like to invite proposals from academics, practitioners and activists... Read More about When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference.

Reflections on anti-racism and memorialisation from South West UK (2022)
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Sobers spoke at a roundtable discussion with 20 human rights advocates from across Europe, at the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR), Brussels. Sobers talked about the King Leopold II statue in Brussels, and points of... Read More about Reflections on anti-racism and memorialisation from South West UK.

They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film (2022)
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Set within the context of populism, patriarchy and the debilitating legacy of colonialism, The Art of Oppression follows three artists as they each rise to the challenge of creating a new work for the film. The women, award-winning artists, are as di... Read More about They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film.

Re-visioning cultural, historical and gendered aspects of Nottingham's past and present (2022)
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VCRC Symposium These Books... (2022)
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Presentation of a project framework that evidences how UK practitioners articulate their bodies and senses to engage with equipment and materials to enable the development of their practice within letterpress printed artists' books.

Sharing curren... Read More about VCRC Symposium These Books....

Running In Rome: A bio/digi-rhythmic soundscape (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This performative paper explores an empirical case study and sound “data-stream”, developed as part of a four-year doctoral research project titled Bio-rhythms/ Digi-rhythms: Synthesizing the Digitally Mediated Body Through Performative Methodologies... Read More about Running In Rome: A bio/digi-rhythmic soundscape.

Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices (2021)
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The environmental crisis, inequality, anti-trans discrimination and racism are some of the most pressing issues of our times. Can artists credibly claim engage with pressing issues? When does art become a form of activism? Why might we need arts ac... Read More about Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices.

And some of us are silenced (2021)
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In Mangrove the first of the Small Axe films, bio-chemist student Althea says “We need to challenge the system… We mustn’t be victims but protagonists of our stories and what better way of representing ourselves but self-representing ourselves.” A bo... Read More about And some of us are silenced.

Filming the plurality of the Black British experience across two generations (2018)
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The paper analyses two generations’ experiences of being Black in Britain comparing the social and political contexts that determined their life chances. Both generations experienced early adulthood with a Conservative government in power, an unstabl... Read More about Filming the plurality of the Black British experience across two generations.