JOURNALING: Journal as Ritual with Clare Whistler

"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity." Ann Truitt.

Artist and Blue Monkey Network member Clare Whistler talks about her life-long occupations of gathering, collecting, walking, journaling and diary-keeping as rituals that form the core of her practice as an artist. She will tell us about twelve years of filling and photographing boxes, 20 years of photographing a particular tree and many more ritualistic activities which form a fundamental part of her practice as an artist.

Clare will bring along examples of her ritual journaling and invites you to do the same. For two hours we will have a mini-display of your artists' notebooks, journals, collections and photographs which we will set out in the cafe and Junction Box at Towner on the night.

Clare says she aims to create an art that loosens boundaries between the disciplines, an art which can be a metaphor for opening up perception, experience, time and focus; to find ways to offer insight, feeling, and moments of timeless beauty, whether in performance, site-specific work, text, music, visual art and landscape. With a background in movement, dance, and gesture, Clare responds, interprets and collaborates. She says, "As an artist I am always looking for ways to encourage, ignite and inspire creativity in others."

6pm - 8pm
£5.00 or FREE to Blue Monkey Network members.