These listed artists' themes have been gleaned from text such as Jeff Malpas's The Intelligence of Place, Yi-Fu Tuan's Place and Space, and David Seamon's Life takes Place.
Sue Michael, Mid North Road, 2018, acrylic on board, 20 x 30 cm
Inner thoughts
No prior memories
Landmarks
The loss of place
Place built up over time
The persistence of history
Edges of place- recognition vs. familiarity
Sentience of place
Sensorial inputs from the outside world
The singular aspects of place
The atmospheres’ role in place
Material culture
Cosmology of place
The mundane
Imaginative geographies of place
Media's treatment of place
Melded imaginative and analytical approaches to place
Universalities of place
Connections unseen
Architectural spaces
People's influence on place
The open, ever-moving and ongoing nature of place
Interactions
The shaping of identity
Creative expansion
Concentrating pressures
A sense of order that may pervade
Freedoms inherent in that place
Further characteristics of place to consider
Impasses and blind spots
Responsibility within dwellers
Viewing positions
Place not fixed or concrete
No privileged centre
Resisting history
The whole and the parts; no hierarchy
Thinking, through making
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Sue Michael, Jams of the Mid North, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 78 cm