Learning the Long Way is an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice project, affording me the time & resources to develop new trajectories in my arts practice focusing on sustainability within building & artistic production. 

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I began this period of research & development in January 2021 and will be completing training, practical experiments & new artistic collaborations across the year. 

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This work includes: studying Earthship design, studying at the School of Natural Building, completing short courses at Brighton Permaculture, practical experiments with cob, wattle & daube and compost toilets at Custom and developing community driven site-specific works in collaboration with Isabel Pina Ferrier, Daniella Valz Gen and more! 

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In addition to this I have been assisting Mathew French's Chalk House and worked with artist & lime plaster Jue Sota to learn plastering skills. 

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You can follow my research (and life) via my instagram and my new collaborative website Cosmic Constructions (coming soon). 

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As well as developing skills for personal & global sustainability, I am also considering how this knowledge of materials & making connects to my performance practice. I'm currently interested in the history of the use of lime within the theatre and how concepts such as cradle-to-cradle, permaculture & foraging can inform new works.