On reading ‘The Ghost Limb’
It means a great deal to me to be connected, through this book, to such an inspirational bunch of changemakers. Elements of their journeys, as well as Claire’s own, overlap and connect with mine, in different ways. And reading the book has prompted me to reflect again on my background, on the people and events that brought me to where I am today …
thoughts on The New Cultural Geographies of Smaller Places
thoughts on The New Cultural Geographies of Smaller Places, inaugural ABC Culture Conference
Museum Futures
Reflecting on recent conversations with friends and colleagues on how museums can and should respond in this moment of social and economic upheaval.
thoughts on Queer Possibilities in the Museum
I don’t have the intuitions that are born of living as a queer person in an environment largely shaped by and for straight people. But on my wander, the suggestions in Looking for Queer Possibility in the Museum made me look differently and look more closely…
colonial legacies
Revisiting Ireland’s relationship with Empire, through Alice Proctor’s Uncomfortable Art Tours and in exploring legacies of Plantation in the Sperrins and South West Lough Neagh.
On the Up? North-of-Ireland Uplands in Times of Change
Exploring the complex histories and multiple meanings of a marginalised landscape
Processions
Our experience - as four sisters - of taking part in Processions Belfast, in June 2018
heritage as reconciliation
Working in a multi-disciplinary partnership led by the Corrymeela Community has renewed my conviction that museums and heritage practitioners have a vital role to play in creating a peaceful, inclusive and sustainable future.
nevertheless we persist
Sometimes being self-employed is an isolating and exhausting experience, but the community of professional and community-based practitioners we are building gives us hope for positive change.
shadowed ground
Following in the footsteps of Kenneth Foote, Nan Shepherd and Robert McFarlane to explore how place shapes people’s understanding of heritage, identity and each other.
