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The Problem of England
Get PDFreview of The Magic Box: Viewing Britain Through the Rectangular Window, Rob Young (500pp, £12.99, Faber
Three Instructive Texts
Get PDFThree prose poems - A Contaminated Landscape + A More Accurate Picture Is Emerging + Overcome Isolation By Reading This Next - created using collage, juxtaposition and remix
Bullshit, Ego and Overspend
Get PDFA book review of Exit Stage Left: the Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars, Nick Duerden (374pp, £20, Headline
Bird Talk, 2022
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Durational Performance
BIRD TALK is a live performance that took place over two days at the 2022 Open Studios at CAST in Helston, Cornwall. The work was created in response to the influx of dead and dying seabirds washing up on the beaches in the wake of the bird flu outbreak.
Visitors were invited to talk about any birds they had seen in the previous two weeks. As they spoke I mapped the sightings on a large 3.5 metre chalkboard grouping birds by species, and applying coded symbols to record bird numbers, their whereabouts, and behaviour. Any deaths or illnesses were marked up in red.
Some visitors watched and listened in to stories being told. Some recalled interactions with treasured birds in the garden. A fisherman spoke of gannets that die of starvation, their eyes blinded by decades of plunging hundreds of feet into the sea.
I worked with a ladder as the conversation travelled up and along the board. The chalk marks weaving their own landscape of association, and documenting patterns of loss, absence, and the shortfalls of memory.
Bird Talk is part of an ongoing investigation into conversational exchange and storytelling structured through rules and formal constraint. The work shares a concern with the creation of graphic scores and notation through archiving and live performance
A Stranger in my Mother's Kitchen
No full textA Stranger in my Mother’s Kitchen is a five-year exploration into the grieving process told through photographs, writing and cooking my mother’s recipes. It shares a universal story of loss whilst also celebrating a food legacy. The book includes colour photographs, writings on grief, text contributions and a selection of 17 printed recipes as inserts. Designed by Loose Joints and published by Dewi Lewis.
My mother Sue Miles had an expansive career as a head chef in Britain; she was the first female head chef in Britain and the first woman to run an all-female professional kitchen and she nurtured the talent of many of today’s most respected British chefs. She led a fascinating and varied life, described in her obituary in The Guardian newspaper as ‘the doyenne of the counterculture and the British restaurant revolution’, but died sadly aged 66 in 2010.
While clearing out her precessions in the house I grew up in, I started to discover her handwritten recipes; beautiful documents I had no idea existed. I never saw her cook from recipes, she cooked from instinct, and that was how I learnt from her. I feared many of her recipes had been lost, I took for granted we would have many years to pass these on, but sadly her illness got in the way. These delicate and beautifully grubby (and extremely precious) pieces of paper became a focus of fascination, I could not simply put them back into a box.
As a daughter, I felt an overpowering need to do something with this incredible archive, for both my mother and for myself. I wanted to mark her legacy whilst also feeling more connected to her. I decided to cook all her recipes, to learn the things I hadn’t had a chance to and photograph the process. This work became an important part of my grieving process. It allowed me to feel the warmth of eating my mother’s food again, to feel the feeling of being nurtured and cared for once more. The recipes were haunted with memories; the smells took me back to moments we shared like nothing else.
The book design unpacks the layers of memory, grief and time through an innovative design: with half-folded pages creating 'pockets' throughout the design, the recipes are replicates as loose facsimiles, tucked into the pages like a scrapbook of culinary memories, encouraging the reader to take out and cook from her recipes.
The book was nominated for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2023 and exhibited at Photo London 2023 at Somerset House, London. The work was also featured in the Financial Times Magazine, The Guardian, Photomonitor and many more publications. Celine wass an invited speaker for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Symposium 'Perspectives of Motherhood' held at the V&A Museum, South Kensington, London 2023
Creative arts and digitial interventions as potential tools in prevention and recovery from the mental health consequences of adverse childhood experiences
Get PDFAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can harm mental health across the lifespan and reduce life expectancy. We provide a commentary of evidence on the health impacts, and how creative arts and digital interventions may support prevention and recovery
MAI Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Nine: Photography & Resistance
No full textFocussed on photography as a medium employed to counter patriarchal powers, uncover abuse, or document social resistance, our selection of articles celebrates the courage of female and non-binary people from around the world. We invite you to engage with them as, among many other forms of abuse and marginalisation, they oppose traditions, corruption, unfair treatment, or violence across all sections of their societies. First conceived by our brilliant guest editor Kylie Thomas from the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, this issue documents how photography links with political, artistic, and personal moments of resistance on a larger or smaller scale.
It took us over a year to commission, peer review and edit this issue with Kylie and her energetic collaborator, Brian Müller, a South African-born scholar based in Canada. Their drive to reach out to academics, artists and journalists helped start and develop this project, which was supported by a European Commission grant.* We hope that the writing and images you encounter in this issue will move, inspire, and above all, serve to remind you that resistance is always necessary and appropriate
