Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Be-yond Becoming : The Shared Features of Art-making and Constructing a Narrative of the Imagined Future
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'Both art-making and creating a ‘Narrative of the Imagined Future’ call on the imagination to conceive a finished object before beginning its construction. Both processes open a way into the unknown, where one searches for what could become real. In this paper I employ an auto-ethnographic approach to demonstrate the similarities between art-making and the writing of a self-narrative, referencing my double portrait, ‘Be-yond Becoming’ (which draws on van Eyck’s ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’), and the circumstances behind its generation.

'Narratives are powerful vehicles. As we tell the story of who we want to become we set ourselves to live out that story. The virtual is actualised and the imagined is made real. In this instance, I outline how a rupture in my self-narrative allowed another self-narrative to emerge. Art-practice guided me out of an episode of depression as I replaced my self-narrative of being a failed teacher with a new self-narrative, that of becoming an artist.'

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    y separately published work icon Life Writing vol. 15 no. 1 2018 12336598 2018 periodical issue

    'Life Writing would like to record our appreciation and thanks for the work of Dr Rachel Robertson, who is stepping down from her editorial role. Rachel was Associate Editor from 2013 to 2015 and Reflections Editor from 2015 to the present. We have benefitted hugely from her expertise and judgement in the field of reflective memoir. Her own memoir, Reaching One Thousand (‘a deeply enriching book’ - The Age), was shortlisted for the 2013 National Biography Award. We hope Rachel will go on keeping a friendly eye on the journal's work as she takes up a position on the editorial board.

    'At the same time we welcome Dr Kylie Cardell as Life Writing's new Reflections Editor. Kylie was recently a guest editor (together with Professor Kate Douglas) of the journal's December 2017 issue. That edition (‘Locating Lives’) resulted from the important inaugural Regional IABA Conference, which launched the International Auto/Biography Association's Asia-Pacific chapter. We look forward to Kylie's influence on the journal's future development.'

    (Editorial)

    2018
    pg. 107-119
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