Collaborative Work

Collaboration is inherently creative, opening up a new space between minds, disciplines and interests which allows each collaborator to learn, contribute and grow through the adoption of new ideas and the transmission of established expertise.

I have worked on two collaborative projects to date. The first of these was at the 2007 Port Eliot Literary Festival where I worked with a primary school teacher to create ‘post boxes’ to spread around the festival site in which festival-goers were invited to post their favourite words. The resulting collection of words — 264 of them — were woven into a surreal piece you will find here (Natural History Museum)

In spring 2007 to spring 2008, I worked with artists David Paton and Jane Ansell on an Arts Council-funded residency in West Cornwall's Trewidden Gardens. My contribution was to add writing to their visual project. As a result, I began to research and write haiku and my visits over the course of the year documented both the changing faces of the gardens and my own development through haiku and my responses to David and Jane's work. A link to David and Jane's blog is here: (Tend) My Trewidden haiku are among those you will find here (Haiku)