Category Archives: curioverse

Fibre trials & experiments

I began to experiment with fibre and cord; with no particular outcome in mind. Teaching myself drop spinning with sheep’s wool. Spinning led to whorl making – from clay, chalk, wood and resin set charcoal and chalk. With spindles of hazel wood. There is no impulse for historical/archaeological accuracy, just exploring their materiality. To improveContinue reading “Fibre trials & experiments”

Field Walking

In 2023, Will Chester-Master, one of the custodians of Abbey Home Farm approached the Corinium Museum to display field walking flint finds in the temporary exhibition space; inspired by the success of Art and Archaeology of Belas Knap Long barrow exhibition by Elizabeth Poraj-Wilczynska the year before. The proposition developed into an exhibition featuring artists’Continue reading “Field Walking”

Millham Mead – Vestiges of the Past

In the spring, I began to look at a field beside a brook. I had photographed it over winter flooded and drier in spring.  This field is river catchment and flood plain edge; both on the water’s edge and under it. It’s low lying, between two parts of the Ampney Brook. Using 19th century maps,Continue reading “Millham Mead – Vestiges of the Past”

Groundworks – Landlinks Exhibition

The Covid delayed exhibition in Nailsworth is on. https://www.threestoreys.co.uk/whatsonarticles/earthbound-exhibition-thy88 Landlinks exhibition 17th – 27th June Three Storeys Old Bristol Road Nailsworth GL6 OJE I walked along a section of the Thames & Severn Canal, a new walk for me, a very linear walk; photographs documented my scripted stops, especially in response to the prompt wordContinue reading “Groundworks – Landlinks Exhibition”

First Friday Walk January 2021 – digressions in the line of walking

The prompt text from ‘Walking the Land‘ was a few paragraphs of text from Thomas A Clark’s ‘In Praise of Walking’ ‘A rock outcrop, a hedge, a fallen tree, anything that turns us outof our way, is an excellent thing on a walk.Wrong turnings, doubling back, pauses and digressions, all contributeto the dislocation of aContinue reading “First Friday Walk January 2021 – digressions in the line of walking”