Main Areas of Focus

My interests are wide-ranging, primarily in how human beings affect and are affected by the natural world of which we are part, and the related theology and psychology of connectedness.

Artist

Creating beautiful and thought-provoking art as a means of supporting care for planet and people, nurturing a sense of place, and building community

Writer

Articles and blogs on economics, environment, nature, attentiveness, applied theology, arts, and anything that interests me

Consultant

» Website development and training
» Energy efficiency and renewable energy consultancy
» Research and reporting

Latest News and Produce

What I’ve recently produced. What I’m working on. What’s in the pipeline.

Blog

Come dancing

I went on an expedition today, all the way to Middlemoor roundabout, for a picnic lunch amidst the trees and daffodils.

Talk/Workshop

Prayer and Bible reading groups

As part of starting a new blog devoted to prayer and spiritual life, I have moved over the material on related workshops and group work.

Article

"Elsewhere" in a Studio 36 publication

"Elsewhere", my piece of St Loy Cornwall washed up in St Loyes Exeter, has found a small niche as part of Studio 36's second COVID publication.

Exhibition/Installation

Prayer installations

As part of starting a new blog devoted to prayer and spiritual life, I have moved over the material on related installations.

Academia

“Live the questions now” 2020/21

Teaching on the Medical Humanities Special Studies Unit at Exeter Medical School, introducing fourth year students to conceptual and environmental art, looking at meaning-making and how we turn ideas into art, making art.

Performance/Event

Performance in a worship context

As part of starting a new blog devoted to prayer and spiritual life, I have moved over the material on related performance.

Recording

"...and the Greatest of these is Love"

In their second album, Antiphon presents world premiere recordings of three choral works by Michael Walsh: an unaccompanied Mass of the Holy Trinity; a full-scale Requiem Mass; and The Way of Love, a setting of five love poems by Rupert Brooke. We recorded it in July 2017 in the crossing and Lady Chapel in Exeter Cathedral.

News

New blog on prayer and spiritual life

I have increasingly been feeling that I wanted to write more about my prayer and spirituality. I have therefore started a new blog...

Random Work Generator

There are a number of threads running through all my work. Here’s a random sample from each.

Attentiveness

How Place Shapes Prayer

Clare Bryden. How Place Shapes Prayer. Reform Magazine, November 2013.
Clare Bryden explores the spirituality of place in a Benedictine community in Worcestershire.

Environment

"Particulart: Up in the Air" video in Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Cathedral is hosting an “Up in the Air” video installation for the duration of the Paris climate negotiations. I’m proud that it is part of ArtCOP21, the global climate art festival.

Making

"Particulart" launching soon

It's been months in the planning and making, and now Particulart is at hand. The exhibition will be in the Real Food café from 13th October to 8th November, with a launch party on the evening of 15th October.

Place

Digging where we stand

Clare Bryden. Digging where we stand. Third Way Magazine, June 2013.
Driven by restless searching, our modern world often seems to undermine the very community we crave. But Clare Bryden believes that’s an invitation to dig deeper for the roots that truly sustain us.

Play

My favourite pie charts

A bit of fun. Some of them are more favourite than others! Now with a second helping!

Public Engagement

Talk on "Particulart" at Pint of Science

On Monday 18th May, I took "Particulart" into the unfamiliar territory – The Ship Inn in the middle of Exeter – as part of the annual worldwide Pint of Science festival.

Science and Data

Knit-your-own carbon dioxide workshop

As part of the Particulart: Up in the Air exhibition, Diana Moore of Particulart and Knit-Stop ran a knit-your-own carbon dioxide workshop.

Social Justice

Synod and the unengaged majority

The Women Bishops Measure was lost in the House of Laity, by six votes. It might not be a rejection of women bishops, just the enabling legislation, but it sure feels like a rejection to me.