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20/02/23 - Defining Practice
20th February: Defining Practice: Writing an artist statement…for 2894th time. ‘Where is your statement?’ ‘Can I have that statement I...

Ritchard Allaway
Feb 20, 20235 min read


15/02/23 - Working to a Referral
15th February PM1: Reflecting on a referral Working to a Referral What has occurred? First of all, I must apologise for my lack of blog...

Ritchard Allaway
Feb 15, 202310 min read


07/12/23 - Creative Practitioners In Discussion
7TH December: Creative Practitioners in Discussion: Non-fiction writing residents 2022 This entry is a small conversation reflecting...

Ritchard Allaway
Dec 7, 20224 min read


23/11/23 - Progress Monitoring 1: Reflecting
Progress Monitoring 1: Reflecting 23rd Nov: Post PM1: Reflecting on progress and outcome A week has passed since I presented my VIVA to...

Ritchard Allaway
Nov 23, 20225 min read


02/11/22 - Nature: Arts Interconnections Conference
Nature – Arts Interconnections: Conference 2nd – 4th Nov: West University of Timisoara, Romania Disseminating Practice: Presenting at my...

Ritchard Allaway
Nov 2, 20225 min read


10/09/22 - Through a Landscape
Through 5th September 2022 Acts of Practice: Through ‘In walking, I find a rhythm that allows me to think-through the relationship...

Ritchard Allaway
Sep 10, 20224 min read


02/09/22 - Discussing 'Locating Remote Intimacy'
2nd September 2022 Locating Remote Intimacy Explaining the concept behind the work Sound is still a new material that I have included...

Ritchard Allaway
Sep 2, 20226 min read


30/08/22 - Locating Remote Intimacy
8TH – 9TH August 2022 Acting in Remoteness Location: Pettico Wick Bay, St Abb’s Head – Scotland Locating and Experiencing Isolation...

Ritchard Allaway
Aug 30, 20221 min read


28/08/22 - Petticoe Wick Bay
8TH – 9TH August 2022 Reflecting on Wilderness Location: Pettico Wick Bay, St Abb’s Head – Scotland Experiencing Isolation and Remote...

Ritchard Allaway
Aug 28, 202228 min read


13/07/22 - Finding Remote Intimacy: Going Off Grid
Tues 5th July 2022 Acts of Practice: Removing the self from social media ‘Must you go off and bury yourself in the middle of polar cold...

Ritchard Allaway
Jul 13, 202212 min read


12/06/22 - Pod Build
Wilderness Pod Build: Mock Up Wed 27th April 2022 Acts of Practice: An intimate and amplified sensory experience. This is the blog post...

Ritchard Allaway
Jun 12, 20226 min read


24/05/22 - Alone in Scotland
21st – 22nd April 2022 Reflecting on Wilderness Location: Greensykes Bothy – Scotland Experiencing Isolation and Remote Wilderness Please...

Ritchard Allaway
May 24, 202223 min read


03/05/22 - Scott Polar Research Institute
Reflecting on Scott Polar Research Institute Date: 14th - 15th April 2022 Location: Cambridge Collecting texts and reviewing artefacts...

Ritchard Allaway
May 3, 20229 min read


20/04/22 - Over Silton
Date: 30TH March 2022 Reflecting on Wilderness Location: Over Silton – North Yorkshire Moors Collecting visuals and testing a new camera...

Ritchard Allaway
Apr 20, 20228 min read


13/04/22 - What I Do
Me now, as this artist, this ‘research’ practitioner, I am a maker of many things and an explorer of varying materials. I work within the...

Ritchard Allaway
Apr 13, 20225 min read


20/03/22 - Osmotherly
20th March 2022 Reflecting on Wilderness Location: Osmotherly – North Yorkshire Moors Collecting visuals and sounds ‘It [had] never...

Ritchard Allaway
Mar 30, 20225 min read


28/03/22 - The Wimshurst Build & Other Electrical Options
Without giving to much away (I was advised to limit what I share about my ideas/research with the world... not that the world reads this)...

Ritchard Allaway
Mar 28, 20225 min read


12/03/22 - Medium Format Tests
Capturing Wilderness Location: Guisborough Forest – North Yorkshire Moors Date of Visit: 31st December 2021 Date of Developments: 8th...

Ritchard Allaway
Mar 12, 20224 min read


01/03/22 - Authoethenography Within Creative Practice
‘Mountain peaks do not float unsupported; they do not just rest upon the Earth…the mountain is of the ground; of Earth, it is the...

Ritchard Allaway
Mar 1, 20224 min read


02/02/22 - Environmental Aesthetics
Human driven or non-human driven, surely human driven right? Environmental aesthetics is a form of philosophy that has emerged in the...

Ritchard Allaway
Feb 2, 202213 min read
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