Disrupted Meadow is an exploration of ageing, genealogy, performance history, autobiographical documentation of trauma underpinned by a leaping and agitated memory. Developed between 2021 and 2022 it became the creative foundation from which the novel Pink Granite later emerged.

I developed the work in Dorset on Sandra Reeve’s Strata Course (2021)

I further developed it for the Sentient Performativities Symposium at Dartington Hall, Totnes (2022).

I then went on to create another version in a collaboration with Sheffield University and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester which culminated in the  Creative Lives Online Gallery

Essentially Disrupted Meadow explores loss: my baby sister in 1971, my dad in 2009 and my mum in 2021. It also hints at losses in professional life and the notion of creative work in relation to parenthood.

“It was very beautifully crafted and despite the pain of the material which at times brought tears to my eyes your brilliant humour came in at intervals like dropping a pebble into a pond. Such a skill.”
Sarah Hyde on Disrupted Meadow.

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