It's been a little while since I last posted despite my desire to be a bit more regular. However I have been working on a few different sorts of things, including a series about my own experience of art and ill-health. Rather than just write something up, I thought I'd make them into short videos because images are always much more interesting! They quality could be better - but this is what I'm able to do myself, at home, with my knowledge (lack there of?) of computer type s
This was an article I wrote in 2011 for Equip and given that I am re-entering a space where faith, art and health collide again, I thought it might be appropriate to reflect on again. (Re) Discovering Art within Faith How illness created the space to find a spiritual connection with creativity Over the past five years my life has gone through quite an upheaval. The year after completing a demanding (physically, mentally, emotionally) theatre degree my husband and I returned t
This document is for those who have fibromyalgia and for those who have friends who do. It is a bit of an unusual document but I put it together out of my own experience of struggling to adequately explain my condition to friends and therefore the difficulty of asking for help, something that has affected both my husband and I as I have been unwell and has he has had to live with me being unwell. When you an ongoing illness the greatest thing you can have is a supportive circ