Gravity lecture series : Helen Carnac

What an amazing privilege to listen to Helen Carnac talk about her practice. Helen is a maker who works with metal, she is also a curator, writer, speaker and academic, currently heading up the new Crafts course at Middlesex. Her lecture was entitled “Revealing something extraordinary through taking care and engaging with the ordinary”.

Themes of location, place and working practices were identified as central to her work. She spoke about how lines and paths, walking, talking, collecting, documenting, photographing, grouping objects into typographies, making tools and mark making were part of the process of making which brought the “back story” to become the “front story”.

Relationships with place, objects, people were evident in the philosophy of making and thinking. Helen spoke about  creative dialogues, the many wonderful and innovative approaches to collaboration she had initiated and been part of and the process of “thinking together”. Was I inspired? Yes! Inspired to think, to look, to engage, to be real, to consider process, to make things happen, to work with others, to make and continue to make…

Del & Lisa