Self authored essays
and presentations

MER-IS-LAND-IS-SEA

‘MER-IS-LAND-IS-SEA: A Collective Approach to Place’. In Entwined: Rural.Land.Lives.Art. Art Editions North 2021

Images: Tim Eastop; Pat Naldi; Susan Trangmar

A Twist of Thought

‘From Topography to Topology’ in Fragmentation of the Image in the Digital Age. ed. Rubinstein, Daniel. Routledge History of Photography. Routledge London and New York 2020. ISBN 978-1-138-49349-0

‘Landscape as a Twist of Thought: A Line of Enquiry’ Philosophy of Photography 10, 2. 2020. ISSN 2040-3682

A Forest of Signs

‘A Divided Glance: A Dialogue Between “A Forest of Signs” and the Figure of the Tree in Virginia Woolf’s Writing’ The Literary London Journal, Vol. 10 No 1. (Spring 2013)

‘A Forest of Signs’ Photography and Culture Vol.5, No 2. pp.231-238 

UNFOUND

‘Passages of Inscription’, photographies, Vol. 12 issue 1, 63 – 80. ISSN: 1754-0763 (Print) 1754-0771 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rpho20

Wandering Shards

‘Wandering Shards: Image as Meeting Place.’ Journal of Visual Art Practice, 15 (2-3). ISSN 1470-2029

‘Wandering Shards.’ Philosophy of Photography 5, 2. (146-157) 2014. ISSN 2040-3682

Departures, Arrivals and Places In-between

‘Departures, Arrivals and Places In-between’. In Complex Topography, Movement and Change, Tokyo University of the Arts and University of the Arts, London 2016. ISSN 2040-3682

This essay was written to accompany the catalogue ‘Complex Topography: Movement and Change’ produced to mark the collaborative project between graduate Global Art Practice Fine Art students of Tokyo University of the Arts and MAFA Central Saint Martins UAL. The text reflects upon the process of collaborative artistic processes leading to the site specific group exhibition at Ritsurin Garden, Takamatsu, Japan as part of the Setouchi Triennale 2016.

Some Places, Some Things

‘Some Places, Some Things’. In Seventeen of Sixty Eight by Ingrid Pollard, pp. 17-24. 2019. ISBN 978-0-36-825210-5

Waste in Place: A Response to ‘Reimagining Waste Landscapes’

This presentation was given as part of the Reimagining British Waste Landscapes seminar series.
For a recording of Waste in Place go to: 
https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Reimagining%2BWaste%2BLandscapes%253A%2Ba%2Bseminar%2Bseries/241698122
The subject of the presentation is the place known as Dungeness which is located at the southern end of Romney Marsh Kent which I have inhabited for over two decades. I focus on human influence showing the relationship between lived practices of inhabitation, industrial material waste, technological processes of change and cultural representation.

Reimagining British Waste Landscapes seminar series looks at how new landscapes are produced by the dumping of industrially produced waste materials across the UK, and how these sites are used and valued (or not) today and specifically as sites of creativity and heritage. It is concerned with how such sites are both created in the first place – as generative, creative…reclaiming land, ‘made ground’ etc. –  and also how these sites, after their original creation and purposes, gain new uses and meanings, particularly with regards creative activities by artists, architects, planners and others.