Symposium: National Photography Symposium 2018

At the end of the last year, I was invited by Redeye: The Photography Network, Manchester, to compile a written … More

Symposium: ‘Transnational Mobility in the Asia Pacific: Family, Friends, Facebook’ at RMIT

Two days into my life in Melbourne, Australia, and I attended the one-day symposium ‘Transnational Mobility in the Asia Pacific: Family, … More

Talk notes: ‘A New Chineseness’ – Liverpool Biennial 2016

As part of the supporting events programme for this year’s Liverpool Biennial festival was the talk ‘A New Chineseness’ facilitated … More

‘How to write about art’ with Jennifer Higgie/Frieze Academy

Blog writing, arts writing, ‘The Temporary’ and many other wordgirl endeavours are on a go-slow at the moment. Rightly so, as most of the … More

Conference: Presenting at ‘Visualising Chinese Borders’

An MEd and PhD academic interlude (I’m writing far too many words at the moment) to present at the concluding … More

‘Translation Zones’ by Heather Connelly/Library of Birmingham

I’m behind on blogging. I blame PhD land and a work interlude of manning a booth at Art16 art fair, London, … More

‘The Research Catalogue: Publishing Art in Academia’ by Henk Borgdorff

Another day in academia with my ECR (early career researcher) hat on. Another acronym and role for wordgirl’s existence. This … More

Workshop: Cultural Understanding for a Global Future

On Friday, I attended the two-hour workshop ‘Cultural Understanding for a Global Future’ run by Jo Bloxham from the independent … More

Conference: Cities & Territorial Challenges at Bury Art Museum

This week, I went to Bury, LANCASHIRE, specifically to Bury Art Museum to present at a conference. I type Lancashire in capital … More

Conference: ‘The Work Between Us: Black British Artists and Exhibition Histories’

[Note: This text has been updated and edited since it was first published on 21 January 2016] First conference of … More