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Dedicated to all the others: a play.
Uma tradução deste blog está aqui. Obrigada a Carol de Assis. It’s odd that it took a trip to the theatre for me to really notice her. After all, she’s been hanging around, my little inky friend, for five years. There I sat at the back of a theatre just beneath the booth, 6,000 miles…
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Run for your life
Watching the London marathon and all those amazing over achievers made me want to write about my own rather less ambitious running for my blog post this month, because running has helped me in unexpected ways that might be useful to you, whether you’ve experienced violence in the past or not. The benefits of running,…
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True North
Here’s the spark to light the fire Here’s the rope to haul the sail Here’s the coal to feed the engine Here’s the strength to build the rail True North, 2018, Boff Whalley for Commoners Choir I’ve been wondering lately if I might be a ‘professional Northerner’, an insult sometimes levelled at people from the…
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Marking an important 20 year anniversary
Marking an important 20 year anniversary. On my bedroom wall sits an apparently unremarkable photograph. A fragment of a larger photo-collage, it blends with all the other family snapshots scattered in plain, wooden frames around our house. In this photo I am smiling, wearing a red, seersucker dress from a well-known UK retailer founded in…
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On Sanity: A Book, a zine, a project.
It’s been a few years since I’ve worked as an artist with groups of people that funding bodies like to refer to as ‘communities’ and it was such a pleasure to return to this kind of work after so many years of isolation in the shed, while working on my book Becoming/Unbecoming and also on…