In March of 2017 Elsa Oliveira and I facilitated the first workshop in a new project with participants who were involved with some of our past workshops. This new project is called the Sex Worker Poster Project, and it is…
This blog entry offers a facilitator’s glance into the day to day activities that comprise a participatory arts-based workshop conducted in partnership with a grassroots activist organisation. I start the entry with a narrative account of the day to day…
Movement and its limitation within an environment is a visual-spatial presentation which responds to the vibrancy of partaking in an assemblage, and to the ambivalence of living in a borderland. The movement of the city, and broader urban-rural relationships, viewed as an assemblage,…
It is seldom that paintings or prints follow a direct route, or a highly planned sequence of steps to completion. My making process is one of continuous reassessments to codifications, and re-adjustments to forms and relationships. This process can be…
Paintings are produced in a way that precludes exact reproduction. Printmaking methods, such as etching, woodcut and linocut, allow for the reproduction of the same work, though the prints that constitute an edition always have minute variations that result from…
I have wanted to explore a relationship between painting and printmaking, but because I have a limited time every year in which I can collaborate with the printmakers of the David Krut Workshop, any practice based approach to this has…
Over the last few years I have experimented with a range of printing approaches in collaboration with the printmakers at the David Krut Workshop. The printmaking collaboration process has been productive for me, because it is one that is based…
The zines from the Sex Worker Zine Project are powerful visual and narrative accounts of personal struggles and successes, everyday realities, beliefs, hopes and dreams. These visual stories are crafted around aspects of participants’ lives that they wanted a public…
Arts-based research is being used in and between a variety of fields. From the arts and humanities to the social sciences and health sciences. It is a rapidly expanding methodological approach that is providing opportunities for researchers to conduct studies…
An important undercurrent in the arts-based research projects that I have been involved in has been the relationships that form within a workshop space, and the project’s relationship with other assemblages. In this blog post I will look at ideas…