Louise Cunningham Fine Art

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The witch trial that made legal history

How a nine-year-old's evidence in a 17th Century witch trial led to 10 executions and influenced modern trials.

Pendle Witches part of Sabden history and the main reason for tourist visits. 

Research for Sabden site works. 

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The Art of Memory – Podcast | Tate

How can our past inspire us to create? We explore the role of memory in art

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Trying to find more singular words about place that communicate and raise questions about the concepts of place and home.  I am currently working on a sculptural piece, an old dolls house that used to be my mothers, then mine. I am preserving the Doll’s House as it is apart from one room which I am going to change, include images of now, and how my home, and the people and place i have grown up have shaped me as a person. It is a generational home that has always lived in a home and will get passed down. It is objects like this that are the containers of memories, stories, a time in our lives. 

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Books on location: Robert Macfarlane on putting 'in-situ' reading on the map

The author has taken to Twitter to ask, ‘What book have you read while actually in its landscape?’ The responses, he says, are broadening his horizons

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Mapping the U.K.'s Many, Many Names for Streams

One man's brook is another man's allt. Or nant. Or gill. Or burn.

Found this really interesting. 

A FEW YEARS AGO, THE climate adaptation researcher Ben Smith—then a Ph.D. student at Kings College London—was working on his dissertation, about the effectiveness of water restoration projects in the United Kingdom. As with most scholarly projects, this involved spending hours and hours with the same information.

“I’d been staring at lists of rivers… [for] far too much time,” he says, when certain patterns of terminology began emerging. While the northern U.K. was squiggled all over with “burns,” the southeast was instead full of “nants” and “afons.”

“I got interested in the way [the words] varied between regions,” says Smith. So he decided to start mapping them. This year, inspired by a query from the landscape linguist Robert McFarlane, he returned to the project, and recently completed a set of maps of the U.K., twisted all over with different words for “stream.”

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Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps

From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps

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Looking at place and how identity of place can be formed through fictional maps rather than professional ones. For example, Parish Maps by Common Ground allows communities to create their own map of the places they live, through their own way of seeing it, and what they regard as important. 

My next project for home is going to be something to do with maps and memories. 

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6 Tips for Artists on How to Talk about Their Art

Even the most gifted artists can feel daunted when talking about their work. We spoke to experts for insights on how artists can be clear, effective speakers.

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Artist Opportunities, Art Commissions, Art Prizes and Art Residencies for Artists. Isendyouthis creates Websites for Artists and show Art work in our online Art Gallery - bringing together Artists, Galleries and Art.

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Dissertation stuff

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Personal Perspectives: Five Artists’ Sense of Place, Companion Exhibition at the Smithy — Glimmerglass Film Days

When home is not the same as a place of origin, what does the outsider see in their new environment? Who determines places of value and decides to protect sacred traditions, folklore, meeting places, and spiritual pursuits? Who decides which sacred traditions to protect? How does the designation of

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The subtle art of community engagement

Working in local authority arts development was where Martin Cox learned to listen, understand and value people as much as he valued artistic outcomes. He shares his views on audience development.

Looking at ways of building connections with the community through art so that the art produced provide the vision of the whole identity of the community rather than just my own. I have been looking at Lucy Lippards notion of “place ethics” as a guide to how to conduct community based and local art projects. 

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"Iceland Could Have Been Anywhere": Roni Horn on How to Be Present Amidst Shifting Landscapes

In this 1984 interview with Jan Howard, American conceptual artist Roni Horn eloquently explains how Iceland has come to have such a vital impact on her work and recounts her two months living alone in a lighthouse.