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

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Conference paper examining fragility, material memory and feminist practices of care in contemporary art, tracing a shift from repair towards speculative methodologies of carrying and tending in response to ecological precarity.

Reference
King, S., (2026). Soft Practices: Material Memory, Fragility and Speculative Futures. Proceedings of the 9th Memory, Forgetting and Creating International Interdisciplinary Conference, organised by InMind Support, Poland, 22–23 January 2026 (online conference). DOI: 10.66992/B1Gp9d
Publish Date
2026

Exploring how the materiality of drawing has the ability to expand our relational understanding of the world around us.

Reference
Fieldsend-Danks, P., (2020). Drawing-In-Situ: Material Encounters with Place. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice. 5 (1). pp 111 - 117
Publish Date
2020