WHAT BINDS & BREAKS:

AN ADVANCED ECOLOGY OF LINE

Thursdays, 6-8pm GMT

Feb - July 2027



WHAT BINDS & BREAKS: AN ADVANCED ECOLOGY OF LINE is a six month course.

This course is open to applicants who have not participated in the ECOLOGY OF LINE foundation course, but it is highly recommended that anyone interested signs up for the foundation course first. Priority will be given to graduates of the ECOLOGY OF LINE foundation course.

Each theme unfolds over the course of a month with one 2hr zoom session every fortnight. The zoom sessions support the solo work that unfolds over the fortnight between each session. Zoom sessions will run fortnightly.

Start of Week 1: Seminar & Assignment - 2hr live online zoom session (intro, presentation & discussion).

Week 1 & 2: Solo Creative Development

Start of Week 3: Sharing & Feedback - 2hr live online zoom session (sharing & discussion)

Week 3 & 4: Remaking, Editing & Development (sharing work via google drive).

End of week 4: Final Feedback (via google docs).


2027

LIVE ZOOM SCHEDULE

Thursdays, 6-8pm GMT


REMEMBERING THE LINE

Live zoom (review & regather) - Thurs 4th Feb

WAVES & FLOWS - light, energy, gas & liquid

Seminar & Assignment - Thurs 19th Feb

Sharing & Feedback - Thurs 5th March

HEART LINES - lines of kinship & connection

Seminar & Assignment - Thurs 18th March

Sharing & Feedback - Thurs 1st April

MATERIAL FLOW - matter on the move / shifting landscapes

Seminar & Assignment - Thurs 15th April

Sharing & Feedback - Thurs 29th April

BODIES ON THE MOVE - the migration of living organisms

Seminar & Assignment - Thurs 13th May

Sharing & Feedback - Thurs 27th May

KNOWLEDGE ON THE MOVE - the transfer of knowledge & awareness between species, objects & technologies

Seminar & Assignment - Thurs 10th June

Sharing & Feedback - Thurs 24th June

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER

Live zoom (discuss & review) - Thurs 1st July


TESTIMONIALS

“Camilla holds a supportive space for conceptual, creative, and material experimentation. Making work in response to the course themes allowed me to test new forms and ideas. Sharing it with others in a thoughtful online environment while gaining generous and insightful feedback from both Camilla and others in the group was incredibly valuable. Highly recommend!”

Rachel Smith - artist & poet, UK

“I am not someone who easily participates in group discussions/explorations, but Camilla and everyone in it were so generous and supportive that I found myself able to share more spontaneously and even in a more non-linear way during our meetings, which then carried over into the final projects i created. The workshops are inspiring and transformative.”

(2026 advanced course participant)

“It's hard to put into words how much I got out of this course. Camilla is very skilled at creating an open, supportive and yet challenging creative space that enabled us to come together as a group and do some amazing work.”

Chris Partridge - artist & poet, UK

“Beyond deeper insights and discussions, this course has guided my artistic work in new research directions by combining themes from different fields, resulting in unexpected and surprisingly new findings.”

Susanne Eules - transdisciplinary artist, EU

“The Advanced Ecology of Line course was a welcome continuation of my desire to expand my creative practice and processes. It offered new creative inquiry and exposed me to work expressed using various senses that I would not have otherwise found my way to. The environment of the workshop that Camilla creates is inspiring and full of energy. One of the most valuable aspects of it for me was hearing the other participants’ process and the various intuitive and non-linear leaps that went into their creations.”

Karen Neuberg - poet & artist, US

“I found the course inspiring and supportive, it enabled me to experiment and play with materials . The depth of work from all the participants was exceptional. Camilla created an atmosphere of trust which freed us all up to work to our very best.”

Carol Dalton - poet & therapist, UK


BOOKING & ENQUIRIES


[4 places] Plus Price:  £600 (includes 2 hrs mentoring)

[6 places] Standard Price: £450

[2 places] Supported Price: £350


Booking is possible in three instalments. All payments must clear before the course starts.

If you really think this course is for you, but all of these prices are out of reach, please register your interest for a pay-what-you-can bursary.

Booking closes: 15th December2026

email to book: info@singingapplepress.com


Your Facilitator: Camilla 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 now teaches mostly 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. She now owns a physical venue in South Somerset with her husband Michael Angus, which they are gradually turning into a space for workshops, exhibitions & performances. www.singingapplepress.com


A Note on Costing: I try to keep the cost as low as I can to enable as many people as possible to attend, but the real time of development, delivery, associated admin and support of holding a group for six months equates to approx. 300 hours of work over an 8 month period (preparation, marketing & follow up) which, if the course sells out at supporter prices (12 places), means I get paid around £25 per hr, which for someone with three degrees and 15 years of expertise in this area is still low (the UK minimum wage is £12.71). I am making this costing as transparent as possible to highlight the value of £/per hr of my time you receive as a participant. These courses develop out of my own creative work. I can’t make a course without making the work first. Buying a course from me is like buying a work of art, it acknowledges the value of the making and thinking & supports me to keep making the work and developing ideas while I do it. Buying this particular work of art (a 6 month course) will support you to develop your own works of art in turn.. & so the creative ripples extend!