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Continue reading →: Birmingham Collage Collective: new website, new show and new zineThe Birmingham Collage Collective website is live and it looks great. All 28 current members are listed on there, complete with bios and collage. Plus, there is a shop selling the supercute limited edition enamel badges for £5 – and soon, hopefully, original collage pieces by BCC members. The collective formed in 2018,…
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Continue reading →: Catching the dawn
The great thing about winter is that you can actually get up at a reasonable hour to catch the dawn and see in the sunrise. When I first thought of doing this last year, it was in June and there was just no way I was going to get up…
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Continue reading →: Three years on…Short story: In September 2016 I started a part-time sabbatical after a long-term contract ended. Fast-forward to September 2019 and my daily life is very different with the green shoots of new things starting to sprout. The initial “beautiful empty-brain feeling” of wide-open horizons and unstructured time has long gone.…
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Continue reading →: GILF Island: the Colchester ChroniclesIn early September I took part in GILF Island, a weekend-long live art workshop about female gender and ageing, invisibility and desire/desirability, run by two Live Art Development Agency artists called Vortessa. Riffing off the TV show, Love Island, we were there to challenge the idea that desire and sex…
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Continue reading →: Learning 24-form Tai ChiIt’s taken a whole year but I have finally learned all 24 postures of the tai chi 24-form. This feels like a major achievement, after several false starts. Theoretically, I can now also practise at home. Theroretically. The class The weekly class lasts an hour and there are about 30…
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Continue reading →: Dictation mishears and amusing typos
As promised, here is my list (so far) of amusing mistakes from digitising my old diaries using speech recognition technology. Goa trance > dilettantes Novices > offices Wiped out > White doubts Juggler > jugular Bitten to death by mozzies > beaten to death by Moses my old man’s a…
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Continue reading →: Digitising an old diary
I have around 70 diaries and these are an ongoing project for exploration – see The Diary for more info. Digitising them creates the opportunity for some creative hacks, such as running the text through a data extraction algorithm to create new outputs – some of which are quite poetic. Using…
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Continue reading →: Splits challenge
I should do something big this year, I said. What would be unachievable and a bit ridiculous but maybe fun? I asked. I wrote a list of goals for 2019. And the splits challenge was born. I’ve never been able to do the splits. I got to BAGA Award 4…
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Continue reading →: Independent toes
I discovered the importance of having independent toes (the ability to flex individual toes on command) after reading Dynamic Ageing by Katy Bowman. Katy is a biomechanist and movement teacher and her book is co-written with four women over the age of 75 – although really it’s aimed at anyone sedentary. Mobilising…
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Continue reading →: Swamped thing: dealing with ‘overwhelm’
One of the things I’ve wrestled with during and post-sabbatical is that I’m a generalist. I’m interested in many things. Here are a few of them, not including family and friends, who deserve another big pocket of time: …art, rabbits, Stirchley, writing, photography, diary mining, bushcraft, animal tracking, composting, ballet…
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Fiona Cullinan 