Nourishment for The Mind – Destination Cairo
If Lab 1 at Hawkwood was soul filling, this experience was more about fuelling energy for critical thinking and reflection! Very much a roller-coaster of emotion, but held and happy, sometimes feeling excited and energised and sometimes like a 10-year-old being presented with Disney Land tickets. There were some significant bumps and interesting moments along the way to do with accessibility and tiredness, but I did have the most epic time and massive thanks to my creative enabler team Jen and Dilys. Shout out needed to Dan and Nene for being the amazing organisers, the wider supporting network and my fellow fellowshipers.
A Farrell Arts Gallery Near You
We are in a state – to quote the commissioners of this extraordinary, amazing project and still can’t quite believe I’m on, our world ‘is in flux. The list seems endless: from the effects of climate change, to war, spiralling energy costs and inflation, seismic constitutional change – kings and queens and national identities – to debates around reproductive rights and gender politics’… and that is putting it mildly and defo not an exhaustive list! So we have a act of resistance from Artichoke – through an ambitious project working with a range of advertising firms in the public domain, eleven bold artwork are everywhere and anywhere, catching the corners of eyes….. unapologetic and compromising!
The Biggest Impact Blog
After an epic, amazing, very (Very) busy, deeply interesting, energised, creatively stimulating and poignant three or four weeks, two projects have come to their conclusion. There is always a sad, melancholy kind of feel at these times. The companionship with fellow artists mixed with a surge of energy and enthusiasm is a momentum building wave. It is stressful and worrying (probably needs rethinking with health and care point of view), but those emotions are swept along with pure excitement and aliveness. It is a spark, a shining in the eye, I get a strong image of my eyes twinkling like stars in my own imagination. There probably not, but that sense of falling over one’s thoughts because they are tumbling faster than language or imagery or computer processing power…..yeah people, I’m not on drugs, I was on two journey’s which felt so meaningful!
12 Last Songs
The work was 12 Last Songs. It started at 12 noon and it ended at 12 midnight. During that time, 600 questions were asked to 28 workers from the City of Manchester. Parallel to this, a performer was capturing, and reporting back happenings around the city, including weddings, community football matches, a group of foresters learning more about fungi, a highly anticipated boxing match … lots of other things happened …… and apart from food at 2pm and rationed as possible toilet breaks, Jen and I experienced every second.
What Does This Mean
Queen Elizabeth II passed away at the Royal retreat, Balmoral, Scotland on Thursday, 8th September 2022 surrounded by her family. The most thoughtful and loving personal messages are being sent from throughout the world from politicians, celebrities and everyday people – a poignant wave of grief from the heart of the Scottish highland. TV and radio coverage was paused to give the message … we were watching football at the time (of course) and the footage cut to a presenter in black … I remember my mum saying: ‘oh dear’, then a few moments after, I worked out what was happening. News in the day said the Queen was unwell but you don’t quite believe it due to her ever-presence. Now my heart, mind and hands are in a conscience crisis and I thought doing some writing would help conflicting feelings find meaning.
Personal Development, Ambitious Planning and Werewolves
More please from ACE, the British Council and fellow foundations/independent funders for artists. For creative process and practise to truly flourish, artists from multiple disciplines need opportunities to be together – time and space to talk. My resilience and belief as a South-West based live performance artist has shot through the roof because of the fellowship and lab one has demonstrated how creative people are building a thriving community! I very excited for my mentoring sessions to begin with Quarantine and look forward to lab two in Egypt…
Taking Another Route
Here’s one for you: British Council, Arts Council England and Jerwood Arts walk into a room… No that’s not the way to begin this blog… something like ****hell, I can’t believe it, Am I dreaming? – No, I’m not because that pinch hurts, wow, wow, wow…Actually, I think my response was ‘No bloody way’ with a massive grin during a very classy zoom with the main producer of this mindboggling opportunity. It is always rewarding getting a yes after days of grafting an application and then cutting words, only to add more sentences and then finally, actually understand the question and to start over again...But to be told by a fellow human being that your words resonated with them and then 10-panel members, well I think it puts everything off to a good start!