Writing
Thought Pieces
Harbour Renaissance | for independent magazine Folkestone Foghorn (pick up your copy in local Folkestone spaces)
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Harbour Renaissance | for new independent magazine Folkestone Foghorn (pick up your copy in local Folkestone spaces)
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“The Kent Downs rest across a view that dips and dives, dotted with grassy corners that look like hidden fairy castles, in line with points of hilltops which seem like heaven could be reached from them. The footprints of cows, and a silence that gives us an inclination as to why people come up here to think, walk, and feel the wind in their hair; there is summer birdsong, juxtaposed with the hum of the tunnel that shoots through the hill, as the concrete leg-like structure both wraps around the little houses below as protection, and acts as the dominant lifeline between Folkestone & Dover.”
What Happened, Exactly? Part 2: Magic Carpets 2021 | for Folkestone Fringe, Magic Carpets / Creative Europe Platform
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“Yet, it was a night which chimed in tune with our exact time & place, propelling us all to attempt to envision what our futures hold and what could be done for what for many of us, keeps us sane, purposeful, alive.”
What Happened, Exactly? : Festival of Looking 2020 | for Folkestone Fringe, Magic Carpets / Creative Europe Platform
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“As the physical world stops for people like me, the work can only provoke what this pandemic highlights, yet align the viewer with Hio’s experiences with how the material, seen body needs to move within discourse in order to be accepted in society, be recognised, and to survive. In this theatrical stunt, it has taken the world to toy with life and death and be forced to look in on itself, for capitalism to break, for the environment to temporarily heal… to let the privileged feel disorientated.”
Seeing Red : Reflection on ‘The Mystery of Lady in Red’ Installation 2020 | For Surface Tensions 2020, by Hop Projects Folkestone
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“Sometimes the art of the improbable nature of the probably can lead to very fine openings. And it was through this that the theatre became a vacuum to which the expected unimaginable became imaginable. One must wonder in a way of expanding individual reality within such a vast universe, yet through finding an equivalent affinity with nature’s needs in order to re-engage and re-centre by what the SALT festival accounted for; an urgency delivered through art in all its forms.”
A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels | For SALT Festival of the Sea & Environment 2018
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“In 2018, one shouldn’t pass on stories in search of a possession of a national identity in oblivion to its origin, yet, pass on stories of fluctuation through which ideas of ‘homeland’ are being destroyed or transfigured on the spectrum of refugee migration to the consequences of Brexit. Every story should be considered as part of an intricate web of multiple oral shouts and whispers through time, so we all have a choice to listen to this palimpsest… ‘the great adventurer wouldn’t be so great without the possibility of the stories I choose to eat’- Rachel Rose Reid…”
Three Acres and a Cow - Folkestone Quarterhouse | For Salt Festival of the Sea & Environment 2018
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University Essays
“When we live in a society connected to the breakdowns of distinctions between work, home and leisure within ‘free’ media cultures, it must be remembered that information, embodied in this case within an innate object/product, is always material to which the worker is approximate yet existentially alienated, exemplified through the harrowing images and eyes of literature, artistic creativity, and most importantly, death.”
Literature and Media (Year 3 Final Essay for Module) | How do media cultures shape the relationship between labour and leisure?
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“Through analysing and comparing moments and methods of how each force of terror and state action can come into view through the language of theatre and performance, this essay will argue that each force aims to claim both a time and space to overrule pre-emptive living or power, a claim which stands as a form of totality, wholeness or desired ‘once’ moment, be it a utopian vision or temporary holding action occurring in real-time.”
Science, Nature & Performance (Year 3 Final Essay for Module) | The Race to Infinity - a creative, theoretical response to the call of action
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“In combining my own experience, Perry’s style of artistic attack as well as the questioning regarding where to place this broader ‘crisis’ with the help of academics, I intervene within this space in such a way of providing a location or situated terrain which may settle this introduction, and where the circulation of bodies dramatically intensifies - contemporary London.”
Men’s Studies…According to Grayson Perry | Dissertation for final assessment of English Lit Degree, Kings College London. Supervisor: Alan Read
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