Conversations in Caves

FLORA PARROTT is an artist and researcher currently undertaking a TECHNE-funded PhD in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway University London. Parrott works in sculpture and textiles; she trained in Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art and The Royal College of Art. A key focus of the practice is interdisciplinary collaboration; working with experts from other disciplines to create rich and experimental programs to accompany visual arts exhibitions. I'm in the Bath on All Fours, a project made in collaboration with South African writer Lindiwe Matshikiza, has recently been shown at Eastside Projects in Birmingham as part of Sonia Boyce’s In the Castle of My Skin, going on to MIMA Middleborough in 2021.

Harriet Hawkins's research focuses on the intersections of geography and art and related concepts including creativity, aesthetics and the imagination. Working in collaboration with artists and creative organizations and institutions around the world, she explores the geographies of art works and art worlds, including exploring the place of practice-led research within the discipline of geography. She is currently leading a five-year research project, THINK DEEP, exploring creative approaches to the subsurface.