Embodying the pathway towards Pink Granite (Part Two) On the road to making Pink Granite I had one more collision with Redhair and Daffodil Friend through an adaptation for the stage. If you didn’t catch it first time around on the blog last year, you can read about that here. You can also view the edited final performance on my …
Leaping on and off the page and back on again.
Leaping on and off the page and back on again. Charting the journey of ‘Redhair and Daffodil Friend’ from a devised starting point to a children’s chapter book. I have an uncanny feeling I have come full circle, beginning all over again. Selling a children’s book direct through word of mouth, through my website and via a workshop programme reminds …
Beginnings of Pink Granite
I have been working for almost a year with The Project Group in Charmouth, Dorset under the guidance of Sandra Reeve. I will be sharing some of this new work through Pink Granite this coming weekend. It will mark the development of my new book Pink Granite. Like all my work the development is body based first before I start writing. Four particular …
The Southport born Suffragette
Please note that I updated this post in November 2021. I originally produced the entry as part of a contribution to some Sefton Borough of Culture research in early 2020. I was thrilled to discover the original blog post was used as a major source of research for a Southport Visiter article by local historian Susan K.Stacey. I am glad …
Follow the Stone: Pre-amble
Follow the Stone: Pre-amble Preamble[1]:before a walk begins. A thought pathway in two parts: 2021 and 1961. Part One 2021 Now Whenever I leave the house I am always going ‘Somewhere, there’s a place for us’ It’s clear, simple and obvious. How I go is the question. Why I go is the other question. I am “going to …
Follow the Stone Part Four: Stopping Places – the aerodrome
Follow the Stone Part Four: Stopping Places – the aerodrome I became conscious in re-working Follow the Stone for a short film edit after Virtual Strata [1] that the piece represented the inner and outer world of Lockdown[2] for me. I think the strands for further development are in the film, and in the continuous working of the 8K walk …
Follow the Stone Part Three: Route and Root
Part Three: Follow the Stone Root and Route One theme that emerged while creating this work was the sense of ‘being present whilst collecting memory’. It placed the past and future in the vessel of the present. I explored running/walking routes and landed on a route from home to Marshside along the old sea wall and back through the streets …
Mapping a New direction in a Creative Journey: Follow the Stone Part One
Mapping a New direction in a Creative Journey: Follow the Stone[1]Part One Then and Now Here follows a series of posts reflecting on recent creative explorations I have been making. These reflections coincide with a podcast I was invited to do recently for Per Stellas and an invitation to facilitate and direct students in a creative project we are calling …