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Dr Helen Billinghurst
Lecturer
<p>Dr Helen Billinghurst is an interdisciplinary artist and writer with research interests in site, story, movement, memory, materials and ecosophical futures. She makes walks, paintings, drawings, poems, installation, short films, rituals, games, and performance in response to place. <br /><br />Her recent writing includes contributions to "Green Letters: studies in ecocriticism" <em>A New Poetics of Space</em> (2023), "Performance Research" <em>On Diagrams and the Diagrammatic</em> (2023) "World Futures" <em>Queer Convivialist Perspectives for Sustainable Futures</em> (2020). With Phil Smith, Helen co-authored <em>She is the Sea </em>(2020)<em> The Pattern </em>(2020)<em>, Doctor Skulk and Doctor Gusier's End Game</em> (2020). She was co-editor of <em>Walking Bodies</em> (2020) with Phil Smith and Claire Hind. </p>
<p><strong>2019</strong></p>
<p>ACE funded for Plymouth Labyrinth project.</p>
<p>University of Plymouth research funding for Web Walking project with Phil Smith. </p>
<p>University of Plymouth funding for Crab & Bee Delegate walk and presentation. </p>
<p><strong>2018</strong></p>
<p>University of Plymouth PGR funding for English Diagrams exhibition.</p>
<p>Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy</p>
<p>Expanded fields of painting and drawing, aesthetic walking, Deleuzian diagrammatics, site-specificity, embodied process and flow in studio making, New Vitalism, intercorporeality and ecosophical futures.</p>
<p><strong>Pending</strong> </p>
<p>‘Convivial acts for an ecosensual labyrinth’ co-authored article for peer-reviewe Queer Convivialist Perspectives for Sustainable Futures (World Futures) ed. Sacha Kagan.</p>
<p><strong>2019</strong> </p>
<p>‘Plymouth Labyrinth’, funded project, Arts Council England & University of Plymouth.</p>
<p>‘Web Walking’, research grant from Plymouth University. </p>
<p>Take Apart commissioned residency Crab & Bee at Teats Hill, Plymouth. </p>
<p>The Mothership: developmental residency, Dorset.</p>
<p>Commissioned walks for: ‘Celebrating Island Herritage’ Symposium, Isles of Scilly; Commonwealth Theatre, Cardiff; NHS psychiatrists, Exeter.</p>
<p><strong>2018</strong> </p>
<p>Tactile BOSCH, Jarman Jubilee night Crab & Bee scrying performance, Cardiff.</p>
<p><strong>2017</strong></p>
<p>‘Performing Wild Geographies’ funded by Royal Holloway University London and Oxford University. Knepp Castle Estate, Sussex.</p>
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