Saturday, 27 Jun 2015, 16:37Visible to anyone in the world Edited by Steve Bamlett, Tuesday, 11 Aug 2015, 09:20 The Ownership of Learning: issues related to conceptualising ‘learning’ as a product This contribution owes something to a distinction drawn in ******s contribution to the Ownership thread in ***’s Tutor Group Forum. As I write this, … More The Ownership of Learning: issues related to conceptualising ‘learning’ as a product

Psychology: Creative Resources Wednesday, 28 Oct 2015, 15:38Visible to anyone in the worldEdited by Steve Bamlett, Wednesday, 28 Oct 2015, 15:43 As part of his introduction to me as his tutor, one of my group, Loukianos, sent me a link to a recently finished film directed by him about life in Crete. He has given me … More A piece of feedback to a fondly remembered learner: he gave permission.

Interior installation and Queer Interiors: Elmgreen & Dragset Exercise 3.2 A844 Thursday, 24 Jan 2019, 14:49Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 3 Feb 2019, 17:02– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 24 Jan 2019, 14:54– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 24 Jan 2019, 14:50 Interior installation and Queer Interiors: Exercise 3.2 A844: Elmgreen & Dragset  … More How LGBTQI+ issues get marginalised (unintentionally) in teaching

Keith Vaughan DISS notes: Is there are a solution to the categorisation issues raised by and in ‘queer history’? Reading Lewis, B. (Ed.) (2013a) British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives Manchester & New York, Manchester University Press. These are notes towards a problem raised in writing an MA dissertation on Keith Vaughan. The initial … More Keith Vaughan DISS notes: Is there are a solution to the categorisation issues raised by and in ‘queer history’? Initial thoughts.

Blogging on Bishop: The Origins of British landscape Exhibition (The Trevor Gallery, The Bishop’s palace, Bishop Auckland, Sat 1st June – Sunday 8th Spt. 2019) https://www.thisisdurham.com/whats-on/the-auckland-project-the-origins-of-british-landscape-p994631 Having lived in south-west Durham for 30 years or so I never expected Bishop Auckland to be a place of artistic pilgrimage (a short pilgrim on a short pilgrimage … More Blogging on Bishop: The Origins of British landscape Exhibition

The reader is suddenly the read, the storyteller the one listening: Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise (2019) I don’t think I understand the power of Mark Haddon’s work very well but I’m sure, since I read The Red House, the most undervalued book of the last decade, that the path to understanding has something to do … More The reader is suddenly the read, the storyteller the one listening: Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ (2019)

I was always fascinated by the lines in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land that follow: Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant 209 Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants Why is Eugenides so fabulously identified as a Greek and why a Greek from Graecia Magna, Smyrna? Usually they are glossed in terms of the reference that follows to … More BLOG: What is a world literature? What is the world in Literature?: Beginning to read the first chapters of Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’.

Here are two stunning artists. I loved the Tanning show – not as popular as the Bonnard one. Hence you could see the installations, soft sculptures and paintings so much more easily than Bonnards’s canvases. The show is brilliantly curated with an excellent film showing at its terminus. Yet for me the comparison involved in … More Dorothea Tanning and Bonnard seen together at Tate Modern