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12/03/2025 - Lit Review; Matters of Care from Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
12th March 2025 Research: Soil Care, a Literature Review Matters of Care was explored through the chapter “Soil Time: The Pace of...
Ritchard Allaway
Mar 123 min read
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10/03/2025 - Four Positions of Soil Energy
10th March 2025 Experimentation: Soil Chromatography In early February, I ventured to Danby in the North Yorkshire Moors to bury...
Ritchard Allaway
Mar 104 min read
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02/03/2025 - SOIL: The World At Our Feet
29th February 2025 Research: SOIL at Somerset House On Friday, 29th February, I embarked on a long two and a half hour train journey to...
Ritchard Allaway
Mar 411 min read
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11/02/2025 - Soil Preparation for Chromatography
8th February 2025 Experimentation: Preparing Unearthed Soil for Chromatography This blog entry outlines my preparation for new soil...
Ritchard Allaway
Feb 113 min read
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10/02/25 - Plugging into the North Yorkshire Moors
8th February 2025 Field Research: A Walk Across the Moors This past Saturday, I finally returned to the North Yorkshire Moors for some...
Ritchard Allaway
Feb 108 min read
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06/02/25 - MIMA: Land and Accessibility
06th February 2025 Research: A Gallery Visit to Encounter Access This afternoon, I visited MIMA, my local gallery 'institution,'...
Ritchard Allaway
Feb 63 min read
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03/01/2025 - Unearthed: Soil Restoration in Northumberland
2nd January 2025  ‘Unearthed’ – Johannah Churchill  Research: Exhibition Experience  At the start of each new year, I find myself...
Ritchard Allaway
Jan 56 min read
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16/11/24 - Soil: Underfoot & Overlooked
16th November 2024 Research: Soil, a material underfoot - writings on. Soil, often regarded as a passive layer beneath our feet, holds a...
Ritchard Allaway
Nov 16, 20248 min read
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09/11/24 - Soil Artists & Collectives
Oct - Nov Research: Artists and Collectives  * Extract from my research chapter - Underfoot: Soil and Emerging Energies Artist’s...
Ritchard Allaway
Nov 9, 202411 min read
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06/11/2024 - I May Have Become Soil
06 Nov Reflection: An update on progress At one point, I felt as though I had nearly transformed myself into a pile of soil. I was so...
Ritchard Allaway
Nov 6, 20244 min read
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29/04/2024 - Soil Chromatography
10th - 19th April Experimentation: Making the Unseen, Seen Now some of you might be wondering what soil chromatography is, therefore this...
Ritchard Allaway
Apr 29, 202412 min read
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12/04/2024 - Goathland
9th April Field Research: Tracing and Collection On Tuesday the 9th of April I headed back out into the field to walk/drift, reveal...
Ritchard Allaway
Apr 12, 20245 min read
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06/04/2024 - Buried Soil Prints
13th - 14th March 2024 Experimentation: Duration with soil This blog conversation will outline recent experimental work I undertook...
Ritchard Allaway
Apr 6, 20244 min read
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12/03/2024 - Revisiting Negatives
19th - 22nd February 2024 Experimental: Revisiting Negatives, Printing & colourisation This conversational entry discusses recent...
Ritchard Allaway
Mar 12, 20243 min read
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03/03/24 - Northumberland Field Work
23rd - 25th February 2024 Northumberland Residency: Collecting and reading land energies Between the 23rd and 25th February myself and my...
Ritchard Allaway
Mar 3, 20246 min read
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22/02/2024 - Storing Earth Energy
23rd Feb 2024: Experimentation: Extracting and storing energy I feel like I have been working with E.B’s for so long now that people are...
Ritchard Allaway
Feb 22, 20244 min read
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21/02/24 - A Narrated Film in Landscape
21st February 2024: An Outcome: Content and Dissemination As in my previous blog entry, ‘Over-Silton: A return or a derive’, I discussed...
Ritchard Allaway
Feb 21, 20244 min read
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20/01/2024 - Over Silton - A return or a derive?
20th January 2024: Collecting material: Re-visiting landscape - a return or a derive? On New Years Eve 2022, I found myself walking...
Ritchard Allaway
Jan 20, 20247 min read
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11/01/2024 - Installation Art
11th January 2024: Reading: Re-visiting installation art through three texts Claire Bishop – Installation Art CB ‘I.A’ gives a short...
Ritchard Allaway
Jan 11, 20245 min read
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02/12/23 - Shifting Landscapes: An Immersive Exhibition
Emergence Magazine Presents Shifting Landscapes: An Immersive Exhibition 1st – 10th December 2023 – Bargehouse, London It has been...
Ritchard Allaway
Jan 9, 202411 min read
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