1st June 2026 Research: Literature Review This literature review is about Lianna Beattie’s book ‘Autoethnography for Beginners: A Step-By-Step Guide’. With my methodology primarily involving (and partially titled) with autoethnography, I wanted to start to get a much more grounded understanding on autoethnographic practice. I wanted to know the key principles clearly, I wanted to gain an understanding that I could feel confident knowing when explaining the method and or usin

12th April – 1st May Visual Exchange: Resilience Exhibition Last month, I mentioned that one of my aims moving into the final year of the PhD was to disseminate my practice more widely, not only within research areas closely aligned to my own interests in landscape and soil, but also through exhibition contexts where visual conversations can take place through exchange and interpretation. It was therefore great to have my proposal accepted for the Resilience exhibition at Har

30th April 2026 Research Exchange: Grass Routes MA Conference Last month, my colleague Alyson asked for my support in working with the Masters students at our place of work, the Northern School of Art. Alyson and I, both lecturers and PhD students have developed a really supportive working relationship, often throwing ideas back and forth around practice-based research. It has been invaluable to have someone at a similar stage in the PhD process to discuss challenges, devel

7 – 14 th February – 25 th March 2026 Research Exchange: Common Ground In November, while scrolling through my Instagram feed, I came across an advert posted by the Auxiliary Gallery Project Space in Middlesbrough. The graphic, simple and green in tone, promoted a weekly project titled Common Ground . Something about it immediately caught my attention. Perhaps it was the language of growing and making, or perhaps it was the idea of a shared space centred around land and c

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...