Iron II – ceramic, earth pigments, oxide, leather, leather cord. Cutter II – ceramic, earth pigments, leather, leather cord. I love walking and connecting with the land; its deep vivid colours, rich earths and muds and interesting rock formations, created over thousands of years; gigantic deep canyons, huge silent mountains, enormous high vantage points, and…
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The Bright Lights of Barnstaple Outside the bus window is the town I grew up in. Or rather, orbited when I was young, When we thought we were punks. My mother lives here now. At a party I remember my friends threw grapefruits at the walls, Narrowly missing a portrait of Virginia Woolf – That…
Freyja kitted out for a wild swim! To reflect on the space outside, I’ve been thinking about the spaces all around in this place I grew; this place called England. So much recent rhetoric has been about looking backwards, but I want to look outwards. I’ve recycled some home footage that’s nearly 20 years old…
In 2016 I started The Space Outside film series. Due to ill health, this film project has now developed into this blog. On International Women’s day, I want to revisit these amazing women’s stories and share why this project began.
On the 16th May 2017, Mollie Hughes became the youngest woman in the world and the first English woman to summit Everest from both the North and South routes.