Tag Archives: DP challenge

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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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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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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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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Tigers In The Wisteria

Coming Soon to Greater Manchester Fringe! An adventure around London’s Bloomsbury with Ottoline. It’s 1922 and Lady Morrell is looking for the right love letter to put into a memorial for her beloved Tiger. Life is not a straight line as she stands in her tangled garden that has been without a labourer since Tiger […]
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Pop Up Art Path

Free open pathways guide Art to the screen for 7 International Artists. Where does the Art from these 7 international Artists guide you to? Seven Artists stand on different continents and do not meet Their latest work connects them in this new film installation They do not speak They make designs to join their separate […]
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White Nights. The Reading Project.

After a year of capturing passers by and tree scapes around the conservation area of Christ Church Reading, the White Nights project moves to document the story of the last fish to swim from land locked UK. Geological eras brought water over the whole of the UK and fossils are found under soil to tell […]
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