Saturday 26 September, 1-5pm
What are the conditions that make a creative practice possible?
What supports your practice? What inspires it? What does it depend upon? What obstacles does it encounter? And what enables it to grow?
Together with artists Emelio Kerr Beale and Clara Hancock, we will map the people, places, materials, tools, resources, relationships, and conditions that make our creative work possible, exploring how queer networks, communities, and forms of care shape our practices.
The maps will then be translated into textiles, using a heat press to transform drawings and ideas into tactile, material objects. Through this process, we will explore another form of translation: from thought to image, image to material, and individual practice to shared experience.
We will begin with a collective reading from Brian Friel’s Translations, a play set in a hedge school in County Donegal in 1833, within an Irish-speaking community. The play opens up questions around language, mapping, and the ways that places are named, translated, organised, and understood.
About the Artists
Emelio Kerr Beale predominantly works with drawing, sculpture, and textiles. Interested in how we communicate with the world, and how the world communicates back, Emelio often draws on personal and social histories to explore the tensions between the stories we tell and the stories we are told.
Clara Hancock is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the everyday entanglement of language, infrastructure, and affect. Working primarily with sound alongside moving image, installation, and writing, their practice is shaped by the failures and possibilities of language, and by the use of sound and sculptural materials as ways of approaching the ineffable.
Together, Emelio and Clara are interested in collaborative practice, methods of sharing, and structures of support. Their workshop explores how artist-led pedagogies can create routes for rethinking individual practices, recognising that creative practice always folds outwards: it makes the world around us, and is simultaneously made by the world it inhabits.
About Edge School
This project is built upon the relationships that we have and continue to develop with local artists, ally’s, communities and organisations in North East Fife from 2024-26 during Queering the Clachan and Queer Makers Club.
Edge School takes its roots from the eighteenth-century Irish hedge schools; informal and often secret spaces of learning that emerged in response to legal and social oppression. Held in homes, barns, and outdoor spaces, hedge schools were community-led sites of knowledge-sharing and resistance.
Influenced by José Esteban Muñoz’s proposition that “queerness is not yet here,” Edge School understands queerness as an ongoing horizon: a way of collectively imagining and rehearsing more just, joyful, and liberatory futures.
Funded by Fife Communities Mental Health Fund.
Upcoming Dates
- 26SepEdge School Lesson Two1:00 PM-5:00 PM
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