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In November 2021, the painter, sculptor and puppeteer, Jonathan Hayter, exhibited a wide range of works including puppets he designed and made, selected examples of his early shadow puppet/animation projections, sculptures and landscapes. Me and My Shadow show cased Hayter’s creative output from the last two decades of his career.

In 2019 Amanda Lorens produced a single screen video, Under Darkness, followed by a video installation Night Song in 2020. I was very interested in how Amanda had captured the trauma and enigma of insomnia with such poignance and evocation based on her own experience.

The London based artist collective, Changeable Beast (25 artists and 4 guest artists), brought their ambitious site-specific exhibition Second Nature to Tremenheere, offering the viewer an opportunity to see it from a new perspective.I had the opportunity to catch up with the lead curator, Tessa Garland, who explained how Changeable Beast and Second Nature have evolved over time and how …

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The aim of my collaboration with Tough Dough’s Message Sent, was to complement and contextualise the creative exchanges that evolved out of the project. By exploring the potential of dialogue in all its forms, the intention was to develop an opportunity to examine how the experience of living through a national lockdown had impacted the …

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In July 2014, I attended the Soil Culture Forum hosted by Falmouth University over a period of four days at the Woodlane campus. The 90+ delegates, who attended focused on how the arts could help to raise awareness and an appreciation for the plight of global soils. The Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural …

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I first met artist and writer, Mary Oliver while working together on the Message Sent project in 2021. Later, I interviewed her about Consequences, a lightbox installation she had produced, inspired by her visit to India in 1996. It is a collaboration, between her, her mother and her two daughters, bringing together poignant moments relating …

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Groundwork was a project organised by Cornubian Arts & Science Trust (CAST) which brought international art and artists to Cornwall. The programme placed emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, presenting new commissions and acclaimed works. I wanted to draw attention not only to the profound nature of Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet (2001) but also its …

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