#CreativeWriting Category
Aleksandra Bienkowska: my own castle on the ground
Creative Writing and Journalism student Aleksandra Bienkowska creates a dark vision of suburban life
Akaylah Forbes: the Creation of Man
Creative Writing and Journalism student Akaylah Forbes finds inspiration in a painting reproduced in Motif magazine
Beatriz Da Cunha Gomes: the ethics of journalism
Creative Writing and Journalism student Beatriz Da Cunha Gomes ponders the ethics of journalism and informed consent
Beth Cleveland: What ‘Home’ means to me
Beth Cleveland is a third year Middlesex University student on Dr Josie Barnard‘s Publishing course. Here she used her memories of wallpaper as a way of thinking about what ‘home’ means to her. Yellow and cream stripes lined the walls from the bottom of the stairs to the top. A border of painted lilies ran […]
Dr Josie Barnard: Writing with Objects
Dr Josie Barnard on the benefits of museum objects as a starting point for writing. [Video]
Sash Guna: “Days Gone By”
A charming love story by Middlesex Creative Writing Student Sash Guna, inspired by a Silver Studio design
Jamie Burnett: Grabbed by a biscuit tin
On how a tattered tin captured one of the most significant periods in British history, and grabbed my utmost attention
Cecilia Hughes: Katagami Stencils
Staring at the stencil, layers of a mind-warping visual unfold. The katagami cutout, housed in the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MODA), at first glance seems an abstract optical illusion, its two-toned linear patterns almost moving on the surface. On closer observation, individual sparrows, each unique, emerge from the background. This Japanese stencil dates […]
Anders Myrset: Banknotes from a desperate period
Three banknotes. Three snippets of paper. Three different prints, but with a single purpose: exchanging goods. A form of unofficial currency produced in Weimar Germany in response to the hyperinflation of the 1920s. A collection of sixty German bank notes, or ‘notgeld’, from that troubled era are held by Middlesex University’s MoDA (Museum of Domestic […]
Sylvia Ikua: Collecting Colour
I stand by a cold, sterile-white table in the Museum of Design and Architecture. I am watching Sim Panaser, a young, passionate Curator, as she gently places a large book on the table. This is my first visit to the museum, a friend of mine had praised their collection of interesting and quirky objects so […]