Islington Mill Art Academy
I was part of Islington Mill Art Academy (IMAA) 2012 - 2017. IMAA is a peer-led experiment into alternative modes of art education, tailored to meet the needs of artists striving to develop their creative practice alongside day jobs. With activities based on traditional education such as crits, reading groups and residencies and more experimental activities linking up with other artist led schools, IMAA provided me with another route to developing my art practice outside of participating in a traditional art education.
The Chaos before the Reforming
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A project initiated by Robert Hopper on the theme of Liminality. I initially wanted to look at the importance of ritual to tradition through a liminal period but amongst the chaos I couldn't find the motivation to make this happen.
During the last three months, as I moved to a different town and started to rebuild my home I collected detritus from the transition, pieces of history from my new house. I created an installation on the day of the install. Using the materials I collected. This was a way of sorting through the chaos and bringing order to it once again, a ritual of sorts, signifying the end of this particular liminal period.
'One day' publication
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A collaborative publication led by Sara Nesteruk, asking us to respond to one particular day and also a page of a text that she had picked out. The publication now sits in Manchester Metropolitan University's special collections.
I included notes on my practice I was making that day, a test print of a piece of work, a collage of the page I chose and a recipe that I had prepared to bring to a Potluck meal hosted by Lety who was on a residency from MoMa.
We were asked to bring a recipe that related to our identity. I chose one that my Nan had sent me to make potato cakes.