Hello! My name is Teresa.

I am an artist

I am a researcher

I am a teacher

I am also a lot of other things, but these three seem to always be there, connecting in different ways, providing the foundations for everything else, so they must be important.

I worked as a primary school teacher, with an Art specialism, for eight years before moving across in 2010 to lead the Art and Design programme on the Primary PGCE course (Initial Teacher Training) at the University of East Anglia. I continue to work at UEA as a Higher Education lecturer, now leading the Professional Development programme and PSHE Education programmes of the PGCE, in addition to Art and Design.

Artist-researcher-teacher statement:

My experiences as a mother, teacher, teacher educator, researcher, artist and writer combine to explore new ways of thinking and being in each of these roles.

Like mycelia, I see these roles as a group of roots, spreading out in a rhizomatic approach, joining to form new complex connections with each other, transporting knowledge across boundaries, and challenging conventional ways of thinking in doing so.

I am drawn to themes of identity, memory, liminality, childhood, connection, growth…and my interdisciplinary practice is an attempt to represent these connections and say something of importance about them.

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As with a sketchbook or a writing journal the content of this site is a work-in-progress. It might be a little chaotic at times. But I’m okay with that. Thinking isn’t always neat and tidy. The beauty is sometimes in the chaos and the order, the complex and the simple, and the never knowing what you might find.

This site is part of my creative process. It’s for me. But it’s an added bonus if you enjoy it or take away something from it too.