AN ECOLOGY OF LINE - online EXHIBITION 2026
The study of what an ecology of line means can feel abstract, even superfluous, in the face of major personal or global events, but a study of lines is a study of connection. This work is a perceptual enquiry into the modalities of linear transformation and as such, it is a study of what lines connect and how. Some stages of human history accelerate the breaking and necessitate a corresponding surge in repair. The 2026 Ecology of Line exhibition suggests that time is now.
from Asterism - Susie Campbell / Letters fro/to Myselves 1981-1997 - Susanne Eules / Traces of Repair - Anna Torres Mallma / Buckie Pendant / Pin - Julia Cowie
from Afon Tywi: Trace i and ii - Sarah Rhys / Towards Collapse - Rachel Smith / Ghost Gear blanket pin brooch - Julia Cowie / As the Ink Began to Weep - Chris Partridge
TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF LINE
is a six month online course for creative makers, writers and thinkers
to explore ecological connection via the material and conceptual dynamics of line.
Dots & Blobs - Amanda Lynch / Mending - Susanne Eules / Holding a Moment: An Attempt to Repair - Rachel Smith / (Ropes): Muscle Memory (The Things That Keep Me Here) - Anna Masters
Fridays 9.45am -12 noon / 6th Nov - 11th Dec 2026
41 High Street, Wincanton, Somerset, BA9 9JU
A weekly, in-person, embodied voice workshop for anyone interested in exploring their vocal capacity particularly in relation to embodied movement.
I have trained with Alessio Castellacci & Irena Tomasin (The World is Sound) for over a decade and, more recently, with Kate Smith (The Embodied Voice) to re-integrate my voice within my body. As a teenager, I sang in multiple choirs and achieved my Grade 7 singing exams with merit only to start to lose my voice when I came to perform. My formal voice training taught me to freeze my body. My voice followed suit. I came to a freer relationship with my voice through embodied performance in my mid thirties and was profoundly impressed not only by how my body remembered so much of its vocal training but how expansive and grounding it was to bring the body into play as an active collaborator. This is what I hope to offer in these sessions.
Winter session runs: Fri 6th Nov - Fri 11th Dec.
£90 (supported) / £120 (regular) / £150 (supporter) for a six week block.
Very small group. Places are limited.
forthcoming…
I am delighted to announce my fourth poetry book is forthcoming
from Knives Forks & Spoons Press (Alec Newman)
due to hit bookshelves in January 2027,
with thanks to Arts Council England.
Get it on your Christmas lists!
poetry workshop
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mentoring
Camilla offers mentoring for poets, artists and researchers in Creative Writing, Experimental Poetry, Performance, Interdisciplinary Arts & Creative Ecological Approaches - online and in person. More info…
TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF LINE
2024 & 2025
from Carbon Bodies / Rachel Smith
SINGING APPLE PRESS STANDS WITH PALESTINE
On November 29th, writers from around the world will gather, for the third year, for a 24 hour reading in support of Palestinian writers, Palestinian voices in diaspora, and their allies. We gather in the spirit of fundamental respect for life and liberation. As individual poets, artists & writers, and representatives of independent arts organizations, we call for an end to all ongoing genocidal aggression globally. We condemn the collective punishment of Palestinians, we condemn actions that perpetuate cycles of violence, and we call for a global commitment to protect freedom of expression and critical dissent.
Donate to Medical Aid Palestine
https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate
Founded in 2014, Singing Apple Press is devoted to the material investigation of poem production, particularly in relation to plants. This small, West Country press produces hand-crafted, limited edition poem-prints, books, events, exhibitions and other language objects.
Camilla A Nelson is an artist, poet, small press publisher, creative programmer and freelance academic currently formulating her ideas into an "Experimental Ecology of Line". She has a PhD in Performance Writing from Falmouth University/Dartington College of Arts (2012) and teaches in person and online. Her work expands page-based poetry into mark-making, soundwork, installation and performance. She is founding editor of Singing Apple Press, a Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University and member of the PLACE Collective. Her fourth poetry collection, dedicated to the memory of John Hall and Dartington College of Arts, A Mending Piece (in four parts), will be published by Knives Forks & Spoons Press in November 2026.
