To You, – A creative writing workshop with Olivia Turner
Thursday 16 February, 5-6pm
In this workshop we will explore the relationship between epistolic writing, intimacy and health. Olivia will read excerpts of her writing, which play with the assumed intimacy of the clinical encounter and the presumed intimacy of the page. We will write our own letters to explore closeness, the role of the writer and reader, and what it means to be an examined body.
Bio
Dr Olivia Turner is an artist and researcher based in the Northeast of England. Her recent exhibitions The Way My Body Feels (2022) and You Echo Through Time (2022) at the Great North Museum, explore themes of wildness, feminism, lived experience, and bodily agency within the Shefton Collection. She frequently collaborates with Classical archaeologist Dr Sally Waite. Olivia is an Associate Lecturer and is currently working as a postdoctoral practice-led researcher for the Medical Humanities Network at Newcastle University.