Creative Dialogues

Creative Dialogues is a bite-sized course series introducing artists, ideas, and creative practices that open up new ways of seeing and expressing your own experiences.

Creative Dialogues brings together short introductions from four artists working across jewellery, photography, identity, and digital media.

1. Eleanor Kerr-Patton — Kintsugi & Creative Repair

Discover how Eleanor applies the philosophy of Kintsugi as inspiration for jewellery that honours repair, imperfection, and transformation.

2. Mary-Ann Kennedy — Identity & Media Representation

Explore how Mary-Ann sees photography as a means to question identity, challenge stereotypes, and be the author of our own stories.

3. Ben Douglas — The Decisive Moment

Discover how photographer Ben Douglas approaches timing, nostalgia, and capturing authentic moments that matter.

4. John Morrison — The Liminal Challenge

Step into the in-between and explore liminality through photography, noticing the subtle transitions where latent potential imagination and possibility reside.

This course is designed for care experienced young people and anyone who wants to explore creativity in a low-pressure, open, and playful way. You don’t need prior experience, just curiosity and a phone camera to try out the creative challenges.

Each session invites you to explore a different creative approach, from repairing with meaning, to storytelling through images, to capturing split-second moments of life.

Expect inspiring ideas that you can explore at your own pace, each creative challenge inviting you to apply a new lens through which to view your life, your environment, and your ideas.

You’ll finish with a set of practical prompts and ideas you can try yourself, building confidence through curiosity and experimentation.

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John Morrison

I’m an artist, educator, and researcher based in Scotland. My creative practice has evolved through years of collaborating with care experienced young people, including with the Love Group during the Scottish Independent Care Review. I enjoy exploring the creative potential of photography, film, and immersive technologies as relational, trauma-sensitive means of storytelling and collectively imagining new possibilities for ways of being, knowing, and becoming otherwise.

I’m also the co-founder and director of Liminal Studios, a design collective of artists, researchers, and technologists. Our studio embodies play and creativity through engagement with the arts and immersive technologies. We value creative expression as a fundamental process of transformative change and community cohesion.

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