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Working with materialist notions of Formless,  from George Bataille (1929), with Yves-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss’s and Formless (1997), I developed an adapted methodology of ‘Horizontality’ as an expanded and embodied  dynamic drawing method  -  drawing-choreography-diagrammatic approaches of blubilds in a feminist critical spatial practice. Blubilds aimed to counter the cultural habits found in Edgelands in order to rethink and propose a choreographic approach for multiple embodied accounts of these neglected zones. Derived from the choreographic and material forces attributed to ‘Horizontality’, namely the use of dance diagrams and the force of gravity 'Horizontality'  was expanded to along horizontality. I reflected on the potential of blubilds as a feminist strategy to confuse and obscure existing codes and representations of Edgelands, and encourage more extensive interactions to open the sites up.  

My research has developed in Feminist New Materialist approaches within an expanded drawing context to work with  Edgelands activities in Leeds, also in collaboration with Craig Saper in America and Maritime Edgelands with Hilbre, an island from the Wirral Peninsula archipelago, with BADA (British Art & Design Association) and John Moores University. I work with the Wise Women Network based in LSA;  UK Watermarks group, PARTICIPATE Research Cluster and Research Funded Project Bathing Beauties across Ireland and UK; and Funded Drawing Symposium June 2024 to develop a proposal for book Drawing Articulations.  Writing Chapter for a book on Drawing methodologies. I will be working  a funded thinkingismaterial Podcast,  Book Proposal with Intellect on the Wise Women projects; and AHRC bid May – July.