My First Blog Post for Cambridge University’s Arts and Creativities Research Group
My PhD is being co-supervised by the intellectually rigorous and equally effervescent Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations, …
Category Archives: Contemporary Art
Journeying back to The Hundred Acre Wood: A diffractive reading of a childhood favourite
Recently, I altered a quote from Paul Mason’s book Bright Clear Futures, from ‘the radical defence of the human being …
Further down the rabbit hole: Reflecting on auto ethnography
This is a reflexive post after presenting a Lightning Talk, as part of a panel on Auto/Ethnography as a Method …
Radical Hospitality as the corner stone of engaged, relational encounters with contemporary art
Through my Doctoral research, which is being supervised between Western Sydney University and The University of Cambridge in the UK, …
Further Down the Rabbit Hole: Contemporary art as an agent of change
Finnish educator, Pauliina Rautio’s advises materialist researchers to: Replace categories and themes with tangents and rhizomes to explore ever proliferating …
A Day of Thresholds
Walking beside Sydney Harbour on a glorious crisp, blue winter day I feel the sea breeze on my cheeks, smell …
Staying with the Trouble of Art
Old Troubles I come from a family that was troubled by The Troubles. Family folklore has it that my Irish …
Spacetime Mattering
I’m a PhD candidate with Western Sydney University in Australia within the faculty of Humanities and Communciation Arts. My thesis …
Leaving the door open
I am troubled by decisions. I am troubled by certainty. In my family of origin, I was the one most …
Communion – art encounters with a Romantic
For me, visiting galleries is steeped in desire, tinged with fear and loaded with the unspoken promise of communion. Promises …
How to start a love affair with art 