Research Catalogue

My practice based research project examines issues of belonging in the Swedish diaspora in the north of England bringing a minority discourse into the public realm. Through art practice I visualise the embodied experience of having two cultural narratives.  I create images of belonging, problematising the notion of home as tied to place. I am developing a notion called diasporic touch exploring how a combination of seeing, touching and creative writing opens up an imaginary space where ‘there and then’ is ‘here and now’, and where the process of making art generates a sense of belonging.  I visualise the hyphen between Anglo and Swedish, I express the wavering diasporic experience between established historical discourses.