Q. Who are you and what form does your artistic practice take? I’m a playwright and performance artist and I write, create and devise my own work Q. Why and how did you start this sort of work? I started this work after studying Drama at Lancaster Uni, taking a play-writing module and being exposed… Continue reading You and Your Work – Tracy Harris
Category: Process
2 Days of Ideas Development!
Rachel Aspinwall, Part Exchange Co & The Engine House’s Artistic Director reports back on early days Future Tourist activity. The creative team on Future Tourist met to explore ideas in the ‘real world’ for the first time on the 7th and 8th of November at The Station in Silver street. Artists meet creative technologist – who… Continue reading 2 Days of Ideas Development!
Tool Kit
Welcome to the Engine House Tool Kit – an array of instruments for your virtual artist’s utility belt as you grapple with the forces of inter-disciplinary work. New tools will be added quarterly as part of the practical outcome from David’s Digest, so let us know what you think: and if you have tools to… Continue reading Tool Kit
Artist Reflection: Days 1 – 3 on Earthed
Project tree by landform sculptor Mick Petts, David’s collaborator on Earthed, Often I find myself working with other writers, trying to find the best process to support their work whilst they’re still in the middle of creating it. There are tried and tested metaphors for describing this that seem really appropriate for Earthed: drawing the map of the… Continue reading Artist Reflection: Days 1 – 3 on Earthed
Earthed
Rachel Aspinwall, Part Exchange Co & The Engine House’s Artistic Director, reports back on some early days Earthed actvities. So far in our search for how land art and writing might collaborate, we’ve had writers donning wellies and discovering the sculptural qualities of hawthorn and land artists writing accidental poetry! Getting outside and letting the experience of being in Bristol’s… Continue reading Earthed
You and Your Work – Anita Sullivan
Q. Who are you and what form does your artistic practice take? I am Anita Sullivan and my work takes place in found sites, on Radio 4, online and in theatres. I am a storyteller, using whatever means serve the story. Q. Why and how did you start this sort of work? I started as a… Continue reading You and Your Work – Anita Sullivan
Beginning the Process – Earthed
Q. Who are you and what do you do? I’m a playwright and dramaturg and spend a lot of time looking at how writing for performance is created, where it can lead or structure a process, and how writers can fit into new disciplines by bringing a dramaturgical (compositional) perspective on the whole. Q. Who… Continue reading Beginning the Process – Earthed
Beginning the Process – Earthed
Q: Who are you and what do you do? I’m Mick Petts and I’m a Landscape Sculptor – I sculpt the land. Q. Who else is taking part in your process and what do they each bring? I’m working with David Lane, playwright and dramaturg alongside Rachel Aspinwall, Artistic Director of Part Exchange Co. David brings… Continue reading Beginning the Process – Earthed