Formerly a primary school teacher and later a Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture and director of M.A’s in the Arts and Education and Visual Culture and Fine Art, Bryan was inspired by his art teacher Harvey Sklair at Beckenham and Penge Grammar School and subsequently studied at Chelsea School of Art, Canterbury Christ Church University, Sussex University and Camberwell School of Art. He is published in relation to Children’s Drawings, Art Education and Film and Animation. He has presented academic papers, exhibited and curated widely and has recently curated and produced creative work for exhibitions linking Art and Archaeology. He was a full-time artist and Canterbury Archaeological Trust Artist in Residence. Currently, he is working on the Widdershins project.
Paper: A Village at the Centre of the Universe
The paper will explore the ideas, experiences and developments that are informing a Community Arts Project on a 5,000-year-old long barrow in Kent and the village and communities close by it. Alongside consideration of the project and its development, the paper will seek to emphasise the importance of the arts to our collective and individual senses of being, belonging and identity and the diversity of issues and potential raised and suggested by this creative experiment.
Panel: Being Located and Located Being
The panel will reflect diverse dimensions of the Arts and their relationship to place, location, their stories and our lives.
Place and Location and their stories are central to our individual and collective senses of belonging and our ‘being’ in the world.
Papers reflecting the importance of considerations of, for example, place, culture, location, story, myth and folklore to the arts and creative production and to artists’ works and practices are invited to contribute.