A Peripatetic Investigation of Place

During my Masters Degree in Arts & Ecology at Dartington College, I personally explored the idea of place.

I joined in and took part, in many and diverse meetings of groups of interest - I became my own expert on visible and invisible networks within my own geographical community.

This led to initiating two collaborative walks in September 2007 to Re-map the River Erme with representatives from some of the groups. This formed into The Community of Ivybridge Project. At an open presentation, the idea of a future Creative Arts Forum in our town was first aired.

I believe Arts can be a point for exchange and a language that is accessible across diversity of age and interest.......and it led to an extension of our investigation to the length of the River Erme Valley. From watershed to mouth.

The idea of a "Civil Artist" in every community led to an offer of a place at the School of Social Entrepreneurs Dartington.