Arts

You never know how you will be found

March 12, 2012

Search terms are funny things. It makes sense that Goannatree would be found by searches like: Imagination art C.S. Lewis scholarship home library library walls in your home with ladder theology and literature phd e nesbit song  ”religion in the arts” meaning and a surprising number of searches for islamic libraries. others that make me [...]

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I write because I must.

March 12, 2012

I like writing. I have days and weeks where I have to tear myself away from my moleskine or my laptop to eat. Sometimes it draws me back in whether I want it to or not. Like a siren with its calls. I write because I have to. I write because I must. Some days, [...]

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Yarning with an Artist: Molly Ginnelly

March 2, 2012

  This week’s Yarning with an Artist is with contemporary jewellery maker, Molly Ginnelly. My friendship with Molly is a testament to how wonderful social media can be for getting to know the work of other artists. Even though Molly lives only a couple of hours away in another part of Scotland, we’ve never spent [...]

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Ghosts of Steel: Creativity from the Ruins

February 10, 2012

Though I am familiar with the Hunter region as a consequence of spending some time there and Newcastle being a metropolitan city bigger than Tamworth (the region I’m from), I still have alot to learn. I don’t have rose-coloured glasses about the struggles that a post-industrial city faces. What is inspiring is the creativity that [...]

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Yarning with an artist: Andy Mort @atlumschema

February 9, 2012

This week I’m yarning with Andy Mort. Andy Mort is a UK based musician and writer, also going by the moniker, Atlum Schema. I first met Andy at Greenbelt in 2011 when we were thrown onto the same panel talking about faith and creativity. He is funny and talented, and quite humble and I’m extremely [...]

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Yarning with an artist: Richard Stott

February 3, 2012

In the first of a new regular series on Goannatree, which I’m titling Yarning with an Artist and which will feature emerging artists, I bring you an interview with Ric Stott. Revd Ric Stott is a Methodist Minister, Artist and Art Psychotherapist. He has a studio in Sheffield UK where he works for the Methodist [...]

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The Art of Preserves

January 26, 2012

This post was originally published on Transpositions as part of the Domestic Arts symposium held in January 2011. At the time it was named as a Freshly Pressed Post by WordPress, and then a featured post for the Photography. All of that is wonderful, of course, and I am grateful. But this post represents so [...]

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The Precious Light

January 17, 2012

“The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a [...]

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Unintended impact of #project333

January 14, 2012

Today is the third part of my #project333 for the grad student set up. In the first post I explained the project, in the second, I shared my list, and today, I share some observations about #project333. Observations scarves and tights I wouldn’t say I have a scarf-problem but I would say that I realised [...]

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List: #project333 for the grad student

January 12, 2012

Today is the second part of my #project333 for the grad student set-up. In the first post I explained the project, in this one, I share my list, The rules are simple. 33 items for 3 months. more details here. Let me remind us of the process: Take inventory. [I detailed this process in the [...]

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