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My role is Associate Director for Arts and Culture at the University of Exeter. I have had the great pleasure of working several times with Ina Linge, the Queer Natures PI. It was on our Creative Fellowship programme in 2019/20 that Ina first worked with Siân Docksey, another joyous human. When Ina told me she […]

Building a creative and collaborative research project is really exciting, but it can also be daunting if you’ve never worked in this way before. In this post, I share some themes and questions to discuss with your project partners. These reflections consider both the ideal of shared creation and the real labour conditions under which […]

This blog post explores the process of queering impact evaluation for Queer Natures. But, first, what actually is impact? And how do we evaluate it? Impact is the social, economic, or environmental changes that result from a particular intervention. In Queer Natures, we’re interested in changes that are created or influenced by the artist residencies […]

As I thought about writing a post on holding spaces, I looked out of my window to a tree that I’ve been watching week by week. This tree in the garden provides wonderful shade and privacy from a busy city gardenscape and has been there for many years. But when I mentioned to my partner, [...]

I’ve spent the last few weeks bouncing around U.K. pole studios getting material for my Queer Natures artist residency. My project is about pole dancing ugly animals, and exploring what we can learn about the politics of desirability, queerness and nature by looking at e.g. pole dancing vermin. Also, I just think stuff pole dancing […]