19th December 2025 Acts of Practice: Soil, Screens & Prints As part of my practice (and perhaps more broadly, my role as an artist), I have been thinking carefully about output and how acts of practice can be utilised to make work that meaningfully translates what this research is concerned with. After all, the aim of the PhD is to discover something new, and within a practice-based framework, making work becomes a way of contributing new knowledge through unique artistic out

31 st  December Field Research: Sutton Bank to Sneck Yate Way The last day of 2025 and the first entry of 2026. As now somewhat of a tradition, I found myself walking on the morning of new year’s eve, possibly to think this could be my last walk of the year (like some great anomaly could occur at midnight meaning that I had one more intimate walking experience) or possibly it is a walk to consider a move towards the end or to the new (2026), or that it is a walk to reflect on

4th November 2025 Research: Literature Review Lucy Lippard’s The Lure of the Local  offers a powerful lens for thinking about how we come to know the places we move through. Rather than treating landscape as something distant or purely visual, Lippard argues that place is lived, felt, and layered with history, culture, and memory. Her writing invites us to slow down, pay attention, and recognise the subtle ways our bodies, identities, and experiences shape, and are shaped by

24th September 2025 Experimentation: Visibility and Readability This entry is another of my delayed summer blogs, finally surfacing after...

11th September 2025 Dissemination: Visualising Practice as Research Thoughts on just seeing work up - seeing as a collective together -...

8 th  September 2025 Research Exchange: David Eckersley This is a conversation I should have written during the summer break, when I was...

4 th  September 2025 Research Exchange: Research & Scholarly Activity Conference 25   The RSA formed part of the Northern School of Art’s...

25th April 2025 Field Research: Walking on the Edge of the Moors Today, I ventured once again into my local landscape of the North...

12th March 2025 Research: Soil Care, a Literature Review Matters of Care was explored through the chapter “Soil Time: The Pace of...

10th March 2025 Experimentation: Soil Chromatography In early February, I ventured to Danby in the North Yorkshire Moors to bury...

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...

8th February 2025 Experimentation: Preparing Unearthed Soil for Chromatography This blog entry outlines my preparation for new soil...

8th February 2025 Field Research: A Walk Across the Moors This past Saturday, I finally returned to the North Yorkshire Moors for some...

06th February 2025 Research: A Gallery Visit to Encounter Access This afternoon, I visited MIMA, my local gallery 'institution,'...

2nd January 2025   ‘Unearthed’ – Johannah Churchill   Research: Exhibition Experience   At the start of each new year, I find myself...

16th November 2024 Research: Soil, a material underfoot - writings on. Soil, often regarded as a passive layer beneath our feet, holds a...

Oct - Nov Research: Artists and Collectives   * Extract from my research chapter - Underfoot: Soil and Emerging Energies Artist’s...

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...

10th - 19th April Experimentation: Making the Unseen, Seen Now some of you might be wondering what soil chromatography is, therefore this...

9th April Field Research: Tracing and Collection On Tuesday the 9th of April I headed back out into the field to walk/drift, reveal...