Diagrams of Love: Writing Workshops with Rose Higham-Stainton

Taking inspiration from bell hooks’ understanding of love as an active and participatory practice, this course approaches love as a way of relating to others, to ourselves, to our communities and to the world around us.  Across four sessions, we will explore an expanded field of love, beyond the familial and romantic:  Love as practice — enacted through attention, commitment and action.  Love as care — the everyday acts of nurturing ourselves and others.  Love as politics — a force for solidarity and resistance.  Love as transformation — as something that can create meaningful change.   Each session will begin with an artwork from the exhibition that offers a point of departure for thinking and writing. Through close looking, discussion and writing, we will use the artworks to reflect on different aspects of love. These workshops invite you to create your own diagrams of love: mapping the connections, practices, responsibilities and encounters through which love is experienced, expressed and imagined.  No writing experience is necessary, and there’s no expectation to share your work.  These workshops are open to anyone aged 18 and over.

Dates Friday 13th November Friday 11th December Friday 15th January Friday 19th February   About Rose Higham-Stainton   Rose Higham-Stainton is a writer, critic and land worker who explores gender, material culture, and man’s construction of nature. She is a contributor to Flash Art, Mousse, LA Review of Books, ArtReview, TANK, Texte zur Kunst, The White Review, Art Monthly and Worms Magazine and has written catalogue essays for artists including Amy Sillman, Lynda Benglis, Ryan Gander and Maeve Brennan. Her debut book Limn the Distance was published in 2023 by JOAN.

Rose also runs the ongoing event series and project FENWOMEN, which gathers women, non-binary and trans writers from across East Anglia and invites others in.      This workshop part of the Sainsbury Centre’s How Do We Find Love? exhibition season.     Stay in the loop Click here to sign up to our Newsletter     Photo: Kat Mager