I graduated from the University of Exeter today with a PhD in English. Having spent my undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Exeter, this feels like the end of an era. Thanks to everyone that made this occasion possible. I am eternally grateful.

RT @DrAllyLouks: Despite the weather, it was such a huge pleasure to be interviewed by @mo_bakshi for @BBCNews on my work, going viral, and….

A poem I had published in Crow & Cross Keys last year titled ‘Earthbound.’. Unfortunately, I haven’t had as much time as I would have liked to write creatively over the past year, but I’m happy to have recently received confirmation that one of my newer poems has been accepted

A geode-style resin coaster I made from resin and alcohol inks a few months ago. #crafting #resin #handmade

I have been thinking today about the significant number of disabled people who have made important cultural and intellectual contributions - Helen Keller, Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Charles Darwin, John Milton, John Keats, and Stephen.

I mention this as the discourse against DEI often positions the inclusion of disabled people in the academy and the arts world as misguided, erasing a long history in which disabled people have contributed to cultural and intellectual innovation.

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I love the tracks on this channel.

RT @DailyClassicArt: Stephen Hannock - "Incendiary Nocturne with Stormy Sea" (2016)

RT @artvallotton: Pinks and daisies or Pinks and dahlias, 1912 #swissart #magicrealism

RT @DailyArtApp: Enigmatic Swiss artist Felix Vallotton Les Andelys, Evening 1924 🌳

RT @folkloristan: Illustrations ft. The Jinns which cause toothaches.

I think there is a lot to be said about the social tendency to conflate competence (skill) and dominance. This may partially account for why certain fields are gendered as masculine even when there are a roughly equal number of female and male workers in these fields. I don’t.

RT @ahistoryinart: 'Goldfish.' (1911) In 1908, Matisse explained the thinking behind his paintings: 'What I dream of is an art of balance,….

RT @X_ArtGallery: Vincent van Gogh - Irises

RT @olgatuleninova: Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916).Blue Poppies, 1910

I took some new Polaroid peel-apart film shots over the last week or so (the instant film photographs visible on the right). I haven’t finished the series as yet but I’m looking forward to developing it further. #Polaroid #film #filmphotography #filmphotography #instantfilm

RT @frome_maude: From 1772 to 1783 Mary Delany made 985 intricate & botanically accurate floral mosaics out of paper. They were the precurs….

RT @Mikkelline: This is Frïgg. She is a 3 year old orinch cat living her best life in Denmark and today I will tweet hourly photos to docum….

RT @womensart1: Sarah Bowman.'White Iris and Blackbird.Contemporary painter #WomensArt

“Mended ceramics foremost convey a sense of the passage of time. The vicissitudes of existence over time, to which all humans are susceptible, could not be clearer than in the breaks, the knocks, and the shattering to which ceramic ware too is subject. This poignancy or aesthetic.