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Arts University Plymouth’s research community benefits from an unique environment dedicated to practice-led creative inquiry within a world-class suite of material and digital resources which provide evolving opportunities for original scholarship and innovative outputs.
Clean-Up-Workers (Deluxe Series) is a project positioned as autoethnographic, mixed-media, practice-led research situated within the field of contemporary glass art.
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.
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.