RENEWAL: 2024 SPE Northwest Regional Conference

4 & 5 October 2024
RENEWAL: 2024 SPE Northwest Regional Conference
​Hood Community College, Gresham, Oregon


I am delighted to share that I have been invited to present at the upcoming RENEWAL: 2024 SPE Northwest Regional Conference in Gresham Oregon on the 4th and 5th October. I will be presenting my paper The Woods: Exploring Place Attachment Through Soil Chromatography. This paper explores how alternative photographic processes, specifically soil chromatography, can be used by artists in new ways to unpick the complexities of place attachment and its relation to the migrant experience. This paper takes an autobiographical approach drawing on examples from my own art practice. I provides the key strategies used in my work to explore themes of home, mapping, ritual, and time. As an immigrant myself I use the light-sensitive soil chromatography process in my body of work The Woods to explore ideas of place attachment I have experienced after living abroad for fifteen years. 

To find out more about the conference please use the link below. 

https://www.spenational.org/conferences/renewal