art-research-teach
Welcome!
This site is my open notebook to document and dissect the connections between making ART, doing RESEARCH and being a TEACHer.
I work in a variety of media in an interdisciplinary way, bridging across teaching, academia and art spaces.
For me, this form of interdisciplinary arts-based inquiry is an important way of exploring new ways of thinking and communicating our knowledge of the world around us. I believe that thinking and making are intertwined entities and we should lean into this relationship to question and move forwards the ways that we communicate, learn and exist in the world.
“*A/r/tography: a “commitment to aesthetic and educational practices, inquiry-laden processes, a search for meaning, and interpreting for understanding.”
“The arts create space for thinking differently and provide opportunities to explore intuitive and emotionally connected ideas that do not rely on words alone”
“Arts-based practices open up spaces for doing things differently by moving beyond propositional or conceptual knowledge and bringing into focus experiential knowledge to express knowing in practical terms”
“More ‘meaningful insights [that] often come by surprise, unexpectedly and even against the will of the creator’ result from reflection undertaken through an arts-based approach.”
“Georges Braque on losing his sketchbook:
‘It’s like I’ve lost my brains’.”