As pandemic restrictions limited my usual ways of approaching face to face, creative public engagement in ‘Community Routes’ I had to quickly find another approach. As I said in a previous blog post, I created the ‘Community Routes Collage Project’ . I designed a collaged, professionally printed, instruction booklet to accompany the kit and it […]
Our second walk for ‘Community Routes’, Roundhouse was to Broad St and Ladywood, to hear more stories about the area and research what should be included in the route. This self-guided audio walk will be available from Roundhouse, Birmingham in the spring next year, hosted on the Geotourist app. We were lucky to be joined […]
Our first walk as part of ‘Community Routes’ was around Edgbaston Reservoir. The first place I lived in Brum looked out on the res. It was luxurious to have this beautiful place to walk on the doorstep. We walked with local community members to hear their stories and find out what they love most about this […]
So fortunately, just before another lockdown has come for us all, we had an opportunity to ‘walk the walks’ with members of the community involved in our ‘Community Routes’ project. Small groups of us went out together and shared more stories about the specific areas, I love this element of projects and walking the routes […]
I’m really happy to say ‘Community Routes’ at Roundhouse, Birmingham is back on ! I really wasn’t sure whether it might fall by the wayside given the wider picture and the impact of the global and local crisis we’re all experiencing. When everyone involved with the project were back, it was decided that we could […]
A new way forward ? I realised it’s been some time since my last post, you start with the best intentions ! Like Social Media, unless you post regularly, there’s almost too much to catch up on and you don’t know where to start up again ! Since the lockdown I scrambled to think of […]
Covid 19 and everything has changed ! I was going to continue sharing and posting more of the Arcadian mosaic project with Maureen and Bec – What an amazing collaborative project it was! How it lead to me meeting and working with the amazing Sally Imbert for several years (aka Sally Dove of Paper […]
Many people came to view ‘All Things Are Connected’ Art Exhibition over the following 4 weeks – even David Essex ! I’d approached him as he’s my Dad’s cousin and I was aware he was involved with many children’s charities at the time and was the chairman of Voluntary Services Overseas. I thought he may be able […]
It’s a bit of a coincidence I’ve come to this, all these years later, at this time – All things are connected ! I started the blog to share my work, as I struggle a bit with social media activities and wanted to share my creative journey, the various stages of projects and commissions – […]
Reminiscing … Day two and my first post brought lots of memories flooding back. I was so proud to finish my degree; I think I achieved more in that year than I’d done in the three previous ones! I valued my time and the freedom to create all day long, loved coming home to my […]