val diggle

20 January 2010

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Brief Personal profile:

I am a writer, visual artist and professional educator with over 15 years experience working with people on creative projects in both educational and community contexts. Born and educated in the SW of England, I spent 12 years teaching in tertiary education institutions in South Devon before travelling to live and teach in other countries. I have a Masters degree (Creative Arts in Education) from the University of Exeter. I am currently living in Wellington, New Zealand and have permanent residency status .

I am personally interested in text-art, fiction writing and performance poetry and was an open mic participant at Uncut Poets – Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre. I participated in masterclasses in performance poetry within a variety of contexts at TR2, Plymouth – an Apples and Snakes initiative - and was an Apples and Snakes performer at the Peterloo Poets venue, Calstock, Cornwall, UK

Key skills:

writer / visual artist /professional educator/ creative mentor

Education history:

Educated in the south-west of England.

Graduate of

University of Wales, Aberystwyth
University of Bristol
University of Exeter, UK

Year of Graduation:

1998

Formal qualifications:

My qualifications include:

BA (hons) English Literature (Arts subsid) – University of Wales

Postgraduate Certificate of Education University of Bristol, UK

MEd (Creative Arts in Education) University of Exeter, UK

Work history:

I have worked with groups of young unemployed in St Pauls area of Bristol, UK - Arts Opportunity Theatre

I was a lecturer in special education, South Devon College

I was a workshop leader - creative writing - family literacy and adult basic education - South Devon (part-time - over an 8 year period)

I worked as a Lecturer in cultural studies and critical theory at South Devon College, School of Art and Design and Grays School of Art, Aberdeen

I was an academic learning support tutor - Dartington School of Art, Totnes, Devon, UK

I am a post-grad academic learning advisor - Massey University, Wellington

I am research active – I have presented 4 papers at 4 international conferences within the last 18 months:Re-fashioning Mythology, University of Melbourne, Australia Critical thoughts: recovering higher education, University of Victoria, NZ, the annual AAWP (Australasian Association of Writing Programmes) conference, Wintec, Hamilton Tertiary Writers Conference, AUT, NZ and was published, in 2009, by Intellect, UK, in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

Creative achievements:

Please Drive Slowly/ The Fractal Case – an image/text work was shown at the Plough Arts Centre, Torrington throughout July of 2005 and Dartington Library , UK, February, 2007.

I was commissioned to produce TRIG – a multi-site image/text residency in response to the life of the explorer/navigator William Wills - for the Exeter tEXt Festival, UK, 2006.

Extracts from TRIG and The Fractal Case were published in The Journal for Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian poetry, 2007. Examples of these works and other works can also be found at www.coolerplanetwriting.com

I am currently working on image/text/soundart project Lightwife, a response to the life of Mary Jane Hebden Bennett – the first lighthouse keeper in New Zealand. Screen-based examples from this work-in-progress were shown at The Square Edge Gallery, Palmerston Nth, October – November, 2008 as part of the Festival of the New World.

I am also writing a verse novel, the Loaning, that will become part of a PhD by practice.

Contact details:

coolerplanet@me.com

021- 0605 - 305

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