Arts and Culture Exeter: Creative Fellowships 2023
Developed by the Arts and Culture team in 2018, the Creative Fellowships provide a platform upon which renowned creative practitioners can embed themselves into ground-breaking research at the University.
Lasting a total of five weeks across the academic year, the scheme encourages mutually beneficial exchange, where both the host and the creative practitioner gain new insights and potential ways of working.
Joining Dr Natalie Ohana, from the University of Exeter’s Law School, is multidisciplinary artist Tom Stockley. Based at the University’s Streatham campus, Tom and Natalie will be collaborating on ‘A Thousand Bursts of Light’ // A VIOLENCE FILLED WITH FLOWERS - a Creative Fellowship which will see Tom work with undergraduate Law students on the module 'Law, Testimony and Trauma'. This project-based, research-led module concentrates on traumatic events related to social oppression, such as racism, sexism, classism and xenophobia. Tom will join seminars at different stages of the module and work with students, whilst also bringing their own perspectives and new ways of thinking about the relationship between law, trauma and testimony.
Tom has started this process by attending seminars and researching the chosen topics of the Law students, centering around traumatic events involving communities in the UK, their lasting effects and the way in which the legal system intersects with activism, collective experience and testimony.
Creating collage and poetry experiments from initial research, Tom will now focus on five major events (the Aberfan Landslide, Hillsborough disaster, New Cross Massacre, Grenfell Fire and Bristol Riots), informing a collection of spoken word, music and sculptural installations.
https://www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/creative-fellowship/a-thousand-bursts-of-light
https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/tom-stockley-a-violence-filled-with-flowers/
Developed by the Arts and Culture team in 2018, the Creative Fellowships provide a platform upon which renowned creative practitioners can embed themselves into ground-breaking research at the University.
Lasting a total of five weeks across the academic year, the scheme encourages mutually beneficial exchange, where both the host and the creative practitioner gain new insights and potential ways of working.
Joining Dr Natalie Ohana, from the University of Exeter’s Law School, is multidisciplinary artist Tom Stockley. Based at the University’s Streatham campus, Tom and Natalie will be collaborating on ‘A Thousand Bursts of Light’ // A VIOLENCE FILLED WITH FLOWERS - a Creative Fellowship which will see Tom work with undergraduate Law students on the module 'Law, Testimony and Trauma'. This project-based, research-led module concentrates on traumatic events related to social oppression, such as racism, sexism, classism and xenophobia. Tom will join seminars at different stages of the module and work with students, whilst also bringing their own perspectives and new ways of thinking about the relationship between law, trauma and testimony.
Tom has started this process by attending seminars and researching the chosen topics of the Law students, centering around traumatic events involving communities in the UK, their lasting effects and the way in which the legal system intersects with activism, collective experience and testimony.
Creating collage and poetry experiments from initial research, Tom will now focus on five major events (the Aberfan Landslide, Hillsborough disaster, New Cross Massacre, Grenfell Fire and Bristol Riots), informing a collection of spoken word, music and sculptural installations.
https://www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/creative-fellowship/a-thousand-bursts-of-light
https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/tom-stockley-a-violence-filled-with-flowers/