Critical and creative engagement
I maintain an ongoing critical and creative engagement and inquiry which helps me to continue developing my various professional practices. I want to always ensure that I am questioning ‘the way things are’, and not merely replicating damaging systems or ways of being and doing.
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My current research is an inquiry into what makes place sacred in contemporary times. The research strands include posthumanism and transcorporeality, anatheism and the divine after the divine, modern-communal and pre-historic ritual, neolithic Britain, Goethian observation and phenomenology, site-specific sacredness, and what it means for place to be both sacred-and-polluted.
My wider research includes mythopoetics, storytelling and folklore, psychology and trauma theory.
Published research
A means to an end: Israeli-run heritage sites in the West Bank of Palestine
My 2016 BA research was published in the International Journal of Tourism Anthropology.
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Since completing my MA in 2024, I have been regularly giving talks at various symposiums, study groups and creative conferences.
Previous talks
“Conviviality & Ecology: The hospitable poetics of place”
— The Convivial, Penryn, June 2025
“Working with the Understory, the Magick of the Below”
— Conjuring Creativity, London, March 2025
“Encounters with the Underworld: Entering, transforming and the erotics of reaching back out”
— The Convivial, Penryn, March 2025
“Minding the Gap: Exploring imaginal realms and the poetic image in the alchemical process of writing trauma”
— A BSA Auto/Biography Study Group Event, November 2024
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I maintain a regular explorative writing practice and have been working on a full length novel since finishing my MA with a creative writing dissertation. This year I have been challenging myself to put forward my shorter works and poetry for publication. Since mid 2025, I have had two poems published in journals and more to come in 2026!
Published
Spring speaks as if — in Indelible Issue #9: Awakening, LABRC
I return to the rock — in Stonework, Scarlett Tiger Press
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I am always making something — fizzy brain equals busy hands! I paint, draw, weave, embroider, make typewriter art, print… and am always keen to try different methodologies. I really enjoy repetitive work, and think of it as prayer-by-hand.
You can explore some of my MA projects here:
I sporadically post my creative endeavours on my Instagram. You can follow along at @slc.arting if you wish!
