Staging Alzheimer’s: A New Play About Memory, Care, and What We Leave Behind

Over the past year — working at the intersection of St George’s medical school, the NHS environment, and my continuing bioinformatics research — I’ve found myself circling one question: What remains of us when memory falters, and who carries the fragments we lose? This question has become the seed of a new performance work: a […]
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Exploring Decay: Nature’s Unexpected Transformations – in Andy Goldsworthy’s Art

I am trying to get to Scotland to see an exhibition and they cancel my train because of Storm Floris. I read – as a result of the winds trees are felled on the Waverley Park. This felt like letting go of the past as I had seen that tree stood there for 30 years […]
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Unveiling Whispers from Number 9: A Lost Play Emerges

A play was scheduled to open in 1958.But the curtain never rose…The writer vanished.Only the title remained — Whispers from Number 9. AUTHOR’ LEFT A NOTE:“I wanted to write something not loud, but true — a silence you could feel between two people in armchairs. The war is over, but we are still rehearsing our […]
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A Farewell to Headington’s Starbucks — and a Quiet Thank You

Once a wedding dress shop, and before that—who knows—this Starbucks in Headington became something more than just a coffee shop. It became a constant. When our world shrank to brief walks this shop stayed open.  A smile behind a visor, and a feeling that life still carried on.   A place that held us quietly […]
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Rosalind Franklin, A Future of Discovery at Guy’s

Today, July 25, marks the birth anniversary of Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920–1958), the brilliant British chemist whose X‑ray crystallography images led directly to the model of DNA’s double helix. Whilst Franklin began her scientific journey with a PhD in physical chemistry from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1945, it was at King’s College London where her X‑ray […]
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Mood Mirror

MoodMirror: Mapping Your Mind with Code and Poetry https://huggingface.co/spaces/LDolan/sentiment_checker How did people used to track their emotions? Maybe it was through letters unsent, diary pages folded in two, or the unfinished edge of a painting. These old-world fragments—weathered, heartfelt, and half-hidden—held deep emotional records long before algorithms knew how to read sentiment. But what if […]
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Fresh Air… Soho in Springtime

This morning I rode my bike through the rain to see new art. I was wearing an old anorak. As I warmed up in the entrance hall, a force field of sweet berries and marshmallow grew around me. It would have been one thing if I were a young girl, but as a full grown […]
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Where is the Story? Old World. New Tech.

As I get older my work feels more abstract, less narrative based and detached from daily life. And I wondered where the story is. I look into my pictures. I can’t find it. So I look into my past. As I grew up in a Valley, my childhood was around trees because the country was […]
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Anne Bayne of Dunsapie Loch

Anne Bayne welcomes her husband, the poet Allan Ramsey back from the Grand Tour only to find that London is pulling him away. His career as being part of the centre of the Enlightenment movement in Edinburgh dawns the prospect of a monument being created in his name. Anne resists the public attention that this will generate, […]
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Asa’s Archway Adventure

North London wilderness extends from the Heath towards Archway to find Asa, a teenager, trying to make sense of life as his old school crumbles at its feet. London bricks are falling down, uncared for and not repaired. Left to breakdown, Asa’s family reaches out for help but is it too late? Will Asa ever achieve his aim […]
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