Exhibition: Experiencing the Filmpoem at An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (2018).
Planning Experiencing the Filmpoem: An exhibition. In May 2018, I travelled to the Isle of Lewis and Harris with my Super 8mm film camera to shoot always carry a camera, the final filmpoem for my doctoral project, Experiencing the Filmpoem. The film, based on a poem that I wrote several years ago, refers to the emotions I felt when I first stood on the cliffs at the Butt of Lewis in 2001. always carry a camera, conceived as a three-channel filmpoem installation, attempts to t
Notes on my PhD, 2016-2018.
Since completing a creative writing course in 2012, I have been writing poems, recording ideas, collecting images and collating them in my notebooks. Many of these ideas have now been adapted into filmpoems for my PhD practice-based project. In 2012, I wrote 'Absent-Present', and in 2014 I adapted it for my MLitt creative project (University of Stirling). The picture below shows a small amount of the work that went into creating that poem, ending with the final version. As th