MA Arts & Place-Approaching Residencies
Dartington Estate

April & May 2022
 

These pages are a record of the time I spent on the estate as part of the introductory module of the MA Arts & Place course offered by Dartington Arts School. 

 

Arriving at the site with a practice currently most engaged with textiles and weaving, and informed by a case study of the work of Cecilia Vicuna, my residency became a space to develop my thinking about the relationship between fabric and place; both thinking of land as a fabric, in particular in reference to ecosystems and interconnection, and also considering how the threads of history, geology, power, ownership and personal narrative are woven into the fabric of place. 

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The 'Surveying the Fabric' page details my initial explorations of the site, which took the form of a walking practice.

The  'Unravelling the Knots' page identifies some of the main areas of enquiry that I have been thinking through whilst on residency.

The 'Following the Threads' page presents a number of the works I have made on site, including 3 temporary site specific installations which have subsequently been deinstalled and are documented here. 

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I have interspersed reflective text and included bibliography on a separate page.