Photograph of biomaterials created by Arts University Plymouth MA Student Natalia Lombardi

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Conference presentation on the Impacts of Book Format on the Creation and Reading of Branching Narratives in Print Comics.

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Wright, B., (2025) ‘The impacts of book format on the creation and reading of branching narratives in print comics’, paper presented at Illustration and the Paper Artefact, Falmouth University, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, 4-7 September 2025. DOI: 10.66992/IvadGw
Publish Date
2025

A presentation delivered at the Illustration & Adaptation Conference in 2019 exploring my book 'That Little Jackdaw', an adaptation of the poem ‘The Jackdaw of Rheims’.

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Brown, M., (2019). That Little Jackdaw: Adaptation as Reparation. Proceeding of Illustration & Adaptation Conference. 10-11th October 2019, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France. DOI: 10.66992/MlWIAd
Publish Date
2019

The Thinking through Making workshop seeks to harness the power of play & imagination as a means to approach and conceptualise global challenges.

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Ashton, B., and Brown, M., (2024). Thinking through Making. Proceedings of Arts Plural, ELIA Biennial Conference. 20th-23rd November 2024, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy. DOI: 10.66992/ma1FbG
Publish Date
2024

Overview of a project produced towards an MA in Photography published in SUB, a space for the dissemination of contemporary thought, writing, and creative practice produced by the post graduate community at Arts University Plymouth.

Reference
Gundry T., (2021) Understory. Sub-text. 1 (1). pp16-19
Publish Date
2021

A practice led case study documenting the production of Clean-Up Workers (Deluxe Series) mixed media sculpture. Auto ethnographic narratives are explored through the lens of waste, value and abjection.

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Matthias, G., (2023). Clean Up Workers (Deluxe Series): The Embodiment of Waste Values and Aesthetics. MDPI Arts. 12 (5) pp 204 - 223.
Publish Date
2023

A reflective case study of practice-led research, this paper illustrates a realignment in creative methodology from a craft-based kiln-formed glass practitioner, to a mixed media sculptor exploring personal narratives.

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Matthias, G., (2019). S-O-T Body Repairs: Narrative Pursuits. MDPI Arts Special Issue. 8 (1) pp 16 - 31
Publish Date
2019