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Upcoming Symposium Field Station: Place Updated

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Opening at the University of Leeds on 4th November, the exhibition, curated by Louise K Wilson and Andrea Thoma, brings together work by artists affiliated with the Land² network to explore how we understand, experience, and shape place today. It asks the central question of what place is, surveying the field of responses and practices around current conditions – ecological, social, technological, political – to reframe sites as fluid, contested, and evolving. Through a range of media and processes, from sculpture, painting, drawing, and time-based practices, the exhibition explores how place is sensed, constructed, and transformed, generating new perspectives on environment, belonging, and spatial knowledge.

Land² Symposium: Friday 4th December, 10 am–5 pm, paper presentations, performances and provocations from artists across the network. The exhibition, opening event and symposium are all free and open to everyone.

Upcoming; Field Station: Place Updated Exhibition

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I will be exhibiting my Postcard Fieldnotes at the Field Station Exhibition (part of the LAND2 network), University of Leeds 4th November until 4th December. These fieldnotes are drawn from a fictional correspondence between two figures that animate my research and are part of the pseudonymous research team and film crew. The postcards document the fieldworker Phyllis Dare writing to the film Director George Howlette about her field trips in Brontë Country. Whilst George never replies, his silence is generative; the exchange is asymmetrical, atmospheric and performative. Drawing on Tim Ingold’s concept of correspondence (2021), fieldwork here is not extraction but attunement. The fictional personae move through the archive—walking, writing, touching, misstepping and (mis)guiding.

Postcard Fieldnotes from the psuedonymous fieldworker Phyllis Dare to the Director George Howlette

PhD Update

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Postcard Fieldnotes from the psuedonymous fieldworker Phyllis Dare to the Director George Howlette

I thought I would do a quick update as to the status of the PhD Research.

The practice based element of the PhD is now completed. Outputs included photo etchings, photographs, a newspaper, a video postcard, a postcard archive, postcard fieldnotes, a film essay entitled Letters to the Landscape, a solo postgraduate research exhibition of the same name, a film script, Letters to the Landscape – Script as Score, a performance lecture script and a performance lecture. I am now officially in the writing up phase. I am currently writing a narrative account of the practice and will shortly be writing a draft Methodology chapter. I have also produced a map of the practice to show how these works overlap and intersect with each other. I may be posting the writing periodically. Thanks for following my research journey.