Category: Blog
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Chronic Illness – Part two
Over the last couple of years my health has progressively worsened. I have a chronic neurological illness, but as I am still on my journey within the NHS, I am as yet undiagnosed. This is the second blog of a three part series about my journey with chronic illness. PART TWO – emotional response The progress of…
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Chronic Illness – Part one
Over the last couple of years my health has progressively worsened. I have a chronic neurological illness, but as I am still on my journey within the NHS, I am as yet undiagnosed. I haven’t blogged about this journey here, but this doesn’t mean I haven’t spoken about it. I am going to write a…
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Tetley Workshop – Matchbox Stories 2
I got the opportunity to run this workshop again this week at The Tetley. The participants didn’t disappoint with their creations, and I really enjoyed seeing the stories come together and the magical worlds that were created. I learnt all about Pokemon as I was very privileged to help a young boy piece together his…
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Tetley Workshop – Matchbook Stories
The current exhibition at The Tetley is an unusual one. Curated by Spanish performance artist, Dora Garcia, entitled ‘These books are alive; they spoke to me!’, it looks at the written word, and from my experience of it, it feels more about the experience than the content. The sound of the book readings are musical…
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Tetley workshop – Camera Obscura
I ran a workshop at The Tetley in December during the Scientific Method exhibition, creating simple camera obscuras. Probably not the best time of year to be creating an object that is heavily reliant on light, but we persisted all the same. I only had three families attend the workshop, which proved to be in our favour,…
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LPE – Bolton Abbey
We visited Bolton Abbey in the midst of Autumn on this latest Yorkshire Excursion. Bolton Abbey sits amongst the 30,000 acres of land owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. The land comprises of moorland, woodland and agricultural land, where seven miles of the River Wharfe runs through. We walked through the rather darkly…