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In the final post in the series about the ‘Star Diagram’, developed in Ryan (2019) and refined in a joint paper (Ryan 2021), I will consider the...

This blog continues a series of posts explaining and elucidating on Ryan’s STAR diagram (2019) developed in Ryan and Price (Ryan 2021). Previous...

From a practical point of view, reduction is a strategy I feel very comfortable with in my photographic practice and one I have used over many...

My supervisors suggested that I work through and write about the strategies I deploy to access essence in my photography and provide examples of my...

In my Upgrade Document I refer to Ryan’s PhD Thesis (2019) as providing a starting point for working through the strategies I might use in my...

I was recently gifted a copy of Peter Wohlleben’s book The Heartbeat of Trees – Embracing our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature (2021).  As I...

I had a meeting with both my supervisors to review the final draft of the Upgrade Document. I received some helpful feedback that I could follow up...

It is said that when tasks are committed to ‘paper’ there is a much greater chance of them getting done.  In that spirit I am sharing the...

A few weeks ago, I predicted that it would be a quiet period on my blog as I reflected and focused on the document I need to submit for upgrade –...

In the early months of my PhD, my second supervisor suggested I read Practice as Research in the Arts by Robin Nelson (2013).  His words about...

After a week of finalising our house move to Skye, I decide to visit Loch Cill Chriosd, where I spend much of my time during the autumn, winter, and...

Very exciting news today.  An interview by Christiane Monarchi  about my photographic work has been published on-line in Photomonitor.  It features...

I met with my first supervisor to discuss the second part of my upgrade document entitled From Object-Oriented Photography to Practice-Based Case...

Blog Post Image - Gemma Wearing - October 2019 Nearly three weeks ago now, I wrote about my period of reflection (during which I am taking stock of...

I had been looking forward to visiting the Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre in Portree, which is part of the Highland Archive Service, and it did...

I met with my first supervisor for a very helpful meeting mainly discussing the assignment I had produced for the New Materialisms and Realisms...

I was recently re-reading Creative States of Mind (Townsend 2019) and came across a reference to Miihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book (1996) about...

I have been encouraged by my supervisors to undertake a period of reflection after a hard-working and sometimes frantic level of academic writing,...