Following the success of last year’s course, I will be facilitating two more creative writing residential weekends on Flat Holm island this year. A unique opportunity to explore Flat Holm’s rich history and landscape while developing your own writing practice. See here for my blog post on last year’s course. The course is structured to … More Creative Writing on Flat Holm Island
‘LISTEN: I have found the home of my heart. I could not eat: I could not think straight any more; so I came to this solitary place and lay in the sun.’ – Brenda Chamberlain, Tide-Race Recently, I came across this book by artist Brenda Chamberlain in a charity shop. I knew nothing about her before … More Island Artist
Twelve women attended the ‘Inspired by’ workshops for International Women’s Day in Canton and Fairwater Hubs. These were free to attend, funded by Cardiff Council, and structured to enable people of any ability to have a go at creative writing and art based on the work of five women artists from around the world. After … More Inspired by…
The Growing Together Art-in-Nature group that I facilitate weekly at the community allotment in Cardiff began a new project recently, creating a loom from salvaged willow staves. Participants foraged for natural materials: Ivy, conifer, bay leaves, catkins, wisteria, bamboo, buddleia, and honeysuckle were all woven onto the loom. This is an ongoing collaborative project that … More Natural Weaving
The Researchers Wellbeing Through Arts project held a celebration of the work created in the Cardiff workshops yesterday at Llanover Hall Arts Centre. The project was initiated to help PhD students to incorporate art into their research methodology and communication. Four Cardiff-based artists were chosen to facilitate workshops: Myself – Intuitive Drawing, Penny Crowley – Watercolour Painting, … More Researchers Wellbeing Through Arts Project
I’m thrilled that my story DUST has been longlisted for the V.S.Pritchett Short Story Prize. This Prize for the best unpublished short story of the year was founded by the RSL at the beginning of the new millennium to commemorate the centenary of an author widely regarded as the finest English short-story writer of the … More V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
I was invited to facilitate a workshop for PhD students recently at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. It is part of a wonderful initiative by Shibani Das and Rebecca Howarth: the Researchers Wellbeing Thru Arts project, created to help PhD students to incorporate art into their research methodology and communication. As well as connecting academia … More Creative Connections: Academia and the Arts
This exhibition at the Barbican (until 14th January) surveys the relationship between gender and ecology to highlight the systemic links between the oppression of women, Black, trans, and Indigenous communities, and the degradation of the planet. RE/SISTERS underscores how, since the late 1960s, women and gender- nonconforming artists have resisted and protested the destruction of … More Re/Sisters: Gender, Ecology, Art
There’s a rich tradition of artists gathering in cafés. Good coffee in communal spaces have spawned and nurtured art movements and works of literature around the world. Café de Flore in Paris, for example, was an important epicenter for French culture where writers like Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre would meet and work. Just … More Cafés and Creativity
Layering our the mark making with some stencilled areas, acrylic paint and inks.
Sarah J Featherstone 